A little kindness goes a long way…

This season has been difficult for my content creating. I've talked about this before but I really struggled at times to balance my main career, with my side passion (YouTube), with my social plans.

You will definitely not know this, but I remember editing a video in July and physically feeling like I could not continue anymore. Genuinely, I felt like I had enough of YouTube. This was the one thing I never imagined feeling.

This took a hit on the quality of my videos, and the frequency of content I posted. It's funny because I have a whole notion page full of video ideas, but every bone in my body refused to script / edit / film it.

Then suddenly, on a random evening, a prominent YouTuber followed me on Instagram. He then proceeded to message me, with a very heart-felt message. He explained how everyone he knew at University talked about my videos, and how much they helped. I get compliments about my content often (thank you!), but this obviously impacted me, because I actually watched this person's videos before I even started YouTubing myself.

Then some more things started happening; I got stopped in the street on the way to work from someone who watched my videos. I was at Be At One another evening, and someone walked up to me and said they recognised me. This Bank Holiday weekend, I was at a Punjabi wedding reception, and one of the guests approached me for the same reason. I even went to a festival this weekend, and during pres I was approached by someone who followed my content.

It made me realise that I was on to something special. It motivated me a lot. So many people were appreciating and actually watching the content I made. Why the hell would I ever want to give this up?

I guess the message I want to say is you never know how much your kind words can positively impact someone. I challenge you to reach out to someone in September and let them know something you appreciate about them. It could be your family / friend / or someone you really admire and have never spoken to before. They may not respond, but you have no idea how much your kind words could help them.