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RE: Why abundance can lead to complacency
very true and i encourage those to live minimally. i loved the plants in the background and congrats on dlive! it takes a brave soul to get that going!
very true and i encourage those to live minimally. i loved the plants in the background and congrats on dlive! it takes a brave soul to get that going!
Thanks for watching @eaglespirit. I can't take personal credit for the plants - they are my mum's. She has green fingers :)
My advice on dlive is... just do it! A few years ago I was thinking about doing some YouTubes, and I agonised about it for ages... should I try to put over a fun and crazee persona? Should I just do a voice-over and B-roll? Then I developed a thyroid problem and I decided to treat it with high-dose iodine, quite a controversial and experimental treatment. Suddenly I had the idea to do a YouTube video diary. I just wanted to reach out to the small number of people who might also be trying out this treatment, or thinking about it.
I was so nervous that I drove to a quiet spot in an industrial area, parked my car, set up the camcorder and started to tell it all my troubles! When I uploaded it, I got a really small, but encouraging response. I continued to make regular YouTubes - not in my car though! I'm now fully recovered from my thyroid problem (the treatment worked) and I get encouraging comments on my YouTubes every day, even though I rarely make those videos any more. I'm glad I didn't even put on make-up for that first video and just tried to be myself, because looking back, it shows how ill I was, and how much better I am now.
That totally got me over my video nerves. I realised that people are not really interested in how my hair looks or in my delivery style - they're more interested in what I'm saying. So if I feel passionate about a subject, I just jump in front of the camera. If I'm really not happy with some of it, I just edit it out - but I try not to do too much editing as it's so time-consuming!
@natubat nice! love your mum already LOL
yeah i just heard some bad stuff about dlive now so i will have to pass. wahhhh
i had thought of doing some stuff and now we just need a better vid system i guess. ho hum.thank you for your encouragement! xo