In QuickCast Episode 2, I talk about how shooting ANY video can help you create a habit. To be good at anything, you just have to just do it. Any kind of recording will help, so just get started with something simple and you will improve and gain confidence over time.

Making a regular video habit will also help you get over your fears of making mistakes. You will make a lot of them, but they won’t be any big deal. You are the only one who will see them!

In the next episodes, we will talk about making video habits so you can improve your online storytelling and help you find more customers.

Your Challenge

What kind of topics interest you?
Can you image yourself recording simple short videos of one topic of interest?
If that seems hard how cna you break it down even further, so it’s super easy?

Highlights From This 3 Minute Episode
This was recorded just off the Mountains to Sea Trail, near my home of Asheville, NC
This video was made with just a smartphone (an iPhone5) and a tripod with a strap.
Notice the difference the simple tripod makes. Compare this video to QuickCast Episode 1
I did a very simple edit in iMovie on an iPhone: I added an image at the start and one at the end. I’ll cover how to do this in a future broadcast.

The Transcript
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The New Wild Media QuickCast 3 – Three Tips To Making Habits Stick

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At the beginning of each year we tend to want to start over.

I find myself making resolutions, even though I know better. Change is hard so I've learned to make a real difference, I have to be smart about it.

In this episode of The New Wild Media Broadcast, I give you three tips that can help you reach your goals. They've been very helpful to me, So I hope you will like them.

Highlights From This 4 Minute Episode

- How objects in your space can help you make a new habit.
- A super simple trick to make habit-forming easier and make them feel better.
- An Africa proverb to remind you how to go far.
- A smartphone/mobile app to help you stay accountable to yourself and to others.

Show Links

- My Brave Bot from World Domination Summit (WDS) 2014
- The Lift.do / Coach.me app available in both the Apple App Store and for Android.

Listen to The New Wild Media Broadcast Episode No. 3 Below

Your Challenge

-What objects can help you remember to stay focused on your goals?
-How can you super simplify your tasks to help you get more positive feedback?
-Who can hold you accountable to your personal development?
-Who can you help?

The Transcript

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**Do You Ever Get Overwhelmed?**

Do you ever feel like there is too much to learn, know and do and too little time to do it?

I sure do. Most of have felt that way before, and we find ourselves in that position often. (If you don’t you may not be trying hard enough!)

The good news is that I’ve learned a trick to make me feel better and get stuff done when I am feeling overwhelmed.

**Highlights From This 3:06 Minute Episode**

- We all feel overwhelmed sometimes, so we all all need to know how to deal with it.
- How the right“What’s the 20?” question helps you gain perspective.
- A short laundry list of all things we have to know and do for finding customers online

**The 80/20 Rule Helps You Get it Done**

I first learned about the 80/20 rule when I heard someone say that it’s 20% of the people doing 80% of the work. You may have heard that, too.

But, we lifelong learners can also use this rule to help us get traction when we feel burdened by too much to know and do.

Running a business and promoting it online can seem daunting. There are a lot of very powerful tools and techniques that can help you transform your business. but the list can seem daunting if you feel like you have to take it all on at once.

**But it Doesn’t Have to be So Hard**

The secret is to ask yourself, “What’s the 20?”. In other words, “What is the smallest portion of this that I can do to have the maximum gain?”

So when you are feeling like it’s just too much, and you are crushing your creativity with anxiety, just stop and ask the question.

**How I Used “The 20″ While Making this Podcast**

As you may have noticed (yikes!) the video in this episode has some image problems due to the unbalanced lighting.

I had a choice.

Do I reshoot the video, or do I just go with it? Is the image quality good enough so it will still be of value to my viewers/listeners? Did I get 80% of the way to my goal with this image quality?

The answer was, “YES”. I could stick with the current image quality and save a lot of time and energy with going with what I had.

I have learned that perfectionism can kill a project. You have be very careful, if you are a perfectionist (like me!).

The 80/20 rule helped me get this episode out the door. It can help you when you need to know, “Is it enough?”

**Your Challenge**

- What’s your biggest struggle right now, and what’s the 20?
- Have you found resources that can help you determine the “20” for any given challenge?

**Episode Links**

- Tim Ferris on the 20/80 Rule (Pareto’s Principle) While Learning a New Language
- Sean D’Souza’s The “Three-Month Vacation” Podcast, an awesome series that helps with lifelong business learning.


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005 How One Simple Rule Stops the Overwhelm

I Picked Up My Bass, for the 1st time in about 3 years and this came out. 

Ok, I did pick it up it yesterday, but it's been quite a while. I've been reading Victor Wooten's 2008 book, The Music Lesson. I'm inspired by the "don't play wrong notes. just play" ideas. 

I think he's talking about Flow and I know it's about the Groove. Yeah baby!

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