Being a perfectionist is dumb (damn, I should have said stupid).

I can’t believe that it’s now officially been 2 months since I uploaded a YouTube video.  Here I am preaching about what you need to do to be famous online and I’m not even making any new videos.  Hello Josh, wake up and smell the unsubscribers!

Here’s the thing.  I’m a perfectionist.  And I typically spend A LOT of time on my videos.  When you include the writing and planning, sometimes shopping for props or costumes, the shooting & locations, and maybe above all the (ugh) editing (especially when I want to add graphics and text and all that jazz) we’re talking a big time commitment.  So, even though I’ve had a few ideas for videos lately, I’ve put them off because I haven’t felt I have time to do them.  And really, if I’m going to spend an entire day on a video then I’m right because I never have a day off (I own a video production company and it takes up most of my time).  Which is why I’m thinking I need to change my thinking when it comes to my YouTube videos.

I saw a video today by another YouTuber who went on a little tangent about over editing.  He talked about how people always try to be perfect and continually edit their work, but in the end it’s more important to just have good content and get it out there and just let go…

And really, when I think about it, is not putting out any videos at all better than putting out some that are more on the “simple” side?

So I am definitely going to set aside a bit of time this week to make a video.  In fact, I haven’t even told my YouTube subscribers about this blog yet, and that’s just plain ricockulous, as I like to say.

What do you think? Is it better to have regular uploads of videos that don’t have a lot of high production values or planning (ie. one a week), or would it be better to have less (ie. one a month), but really put a lot of time and effort into those?

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