Do you find yourself struggling to make YouTube videos?
A few years ago I wanted to start making YouTube videos for my Blog, but I kept finding myself procrastinating.
At first I found myself using the excuse that I didn’t yet have all the video equipment I needed to make videos. So I went looking for a nice video camera for shooting videos. Once I had a nice camera, I then started looking at microphones and researching what would be the best microphone to use.
I thought that if I didn’t have the best microphone my videos wouldn’t sound good.
Then once I had a nice microphone and a nice camera, I used the excuse that I didn’t have proper lighting for making videos. Then the excuse changed to not having enough room in my office to shoot videos, and not having the proper tripod.
On and on I just kept making excuses and delaying the process of making videos.
Then I discovered that the real problem wasn’t that I didn’t have the proper equipment or resources to make good quality videos. The real problem was that I had a fear of making videos.
Once I realized this, I wanted to find the best way to overcome this fear and that’s when I discovered a very quick 3 step process that helped me to overcome my fear of making videos.
Once I overcame that fear, it became very easy for me to make videos regardless what equipment I had or didn’t have for making videos.
Here’s the exact 3 step process I followed:
- Grab a Camera – The first step is to grab ANY kind of camera you can use to record videos. It doesn’t make any difference whether that camera is a cell phone, a webcam, or a professional video camera. It makes no difference.
- Record a Super Short Video – The next step is to turn on the camera and start recording. Once the camera is rolling, all you want to say is a very simple 3 part script where you simply state your name, where you live and what you do for a living. So the full statement might be something like this: “Hi my name is John Smith, I currently live in Vancouver, BC, Canada and I’m an Internet Marketer.”And that’s it! Just say that, nothing else.
- Delete the Video – The next step after making this video, is to delete it! Yes that’s right. Delete it. Don’t even watch the video, just delete it.
This may sound like a silly thing to do, but this is the process I followed myself to help me overcome my fear of making videos.
Essentially I call this the process of creating “Make Delete” videos. A “Make Delete” video is simply just a simple video that you make and then immediately delete.
For some reason, when our mind knows that we are going to be deleting a video right after making it, the fear of making videos goes away.
You essentially become fearless in making your videos.
What this does is it allows you to record videos without any fear and with greater confidence.
And the trick is that once you make one or two or three or five or ten of these “Make Delete” videos, you’ll reach a point where you will feel like you made a good enough video that you may be ready to actually watch and upload to YouTube.
Be patient though. You may need to make a bunch of “Make Delete” videos before you feel confident enough with your video making skills to upload your videos live.