Piloting Your Life: In-Flight Entertainment (What Are You Watching?)
By: Terri Mead
Tags: Piloting Your Life, Surge Capacity, Content Creators, YouTube, Content Creation

Welcome Back My Visual Passengers:

Did you know that I have a YouTube channel and I release two videos a week? I include links to the videos each week in this newsletter (scroll down to see them). To access them, you can simply click on the image, or the title, or the extra link in the text. Choices. So many choices.

Building a YouTube following is no joke. I was watching (actually listening) to Kassandra of Yoga with Kassandra as she talked about getting to her milionth subscriber. She said that getting to 100, 1,000, and 10,000 had more of an impact on her than 1,000,000.

Honestly, I can’t even imagine. With 147 subscribers, 1,000 seems like lightyears away. My new goal is to get to 200 by the end of the year. (I track all of my social media metrics so based on the current trends, I am cautiously optimistic about meeting this goal).

The challenge that I face is that my primary target audience hasn’t yet fully embraced YouTube. If you are reading this, you are more than likely in that demographic. I intentionally avoid lots of graphics in the videos to allow for mutli-tasking as my viewers absorb what I have to say.

I often have YouTube videos running in the background as I listen to what the folks have to say. Sometimes I will click over to watch but unless it’s something visual like a tennis match or Say Yes to the Dress, I just listen.

I do know that some of my subscribers enjoying watching/listening to my videos as they are puttering around the house. There’s no single way to YouTube.

Did you know that I put a link to a song (it’s a YouTube link) at the end of every newsletter to re-enforce the theme for the week? Take a second to scroll down to find it. This week, I went old school with Video Killed the Radio Star.

I also endeavor to weave the theme into the Passenger salutation if you hadn’t already noticed.

I put a great deal of thought into what I share every week (and the images I select) to ensure that I am providing value to you, my reader.

Many of my images come from iStock Photo or my camera roll. I create the thumbnails for the YouTube videos using Canva. I strive for diversity and representation in the images but iStock Photo is a little slow in realizing that not everyone is white. Since I pay for a subscription, I am a little locked into using the service for a few more months.

This is a little insider baseball this week but I felt like it was a good time to take a break from the headier stuff. We are all feeling the stress, pressure, and anxiety of the moment. Big hugs all around.

YouTube: Terri Mead

YouTube: Out of Gas? (Depleted Surge Capacity)

Feeling drained? Having trouble focusing? Wondering if you are going to make it another day or another month? You are not alone in feeling this way although knowing most people are going through this probably doesn’t make you feel any better. I do find that putting a name to it is helping me. I feel better when I take a few positive actions as I discuss in yesterday’s video.

YouTube: Can Words Be a Barrier to Entry (Power of Language)

I am so frustrated by the way media distorts reality with language. White men are never called thugs but Black men often are. I also get frustrated by people using jargon to exclude or categorize people. More on this in Saturday’s video. (I sure wish I had a better tease for you but I am feeling a little depleted, creatively, so you get the literal and not the flowery tease. And I hate click bait!)

What’s my challenge for you today? Watch one of the videos linked in this newsletter (yes, the music video counts). Get distracted for a few minutes. If you learn something new or have something to share based on what you’ve seen/heard, let me know.

With much love and gratitude,

Terri

P.S. Take the controls and be the pilot in your own life. It’s a beautiful day to fly, and you are cleared for takeoff.

Song: Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles

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