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hey this is leo coming at you from actualized org and in this video i'm doing a bit of a State of the Union address so I just wanted to catch you guys up on what I've been up to and what I did is I decided to shoot more outdoor scenes so I decided I would go and drive around some of the beautiful national parks and cool areas that I've got around here from from Las Vegas which is where I'm stationed and I did that the other weekend except the only problem is that when I got out there on the first day of shooting and I plan to shoot all across Death Valley this is what that's where I went is to Death Valley National Park and I wanted to shoot a full camera full so about six hours of footage and on the first day that I got there started shooting and my camera got knocked down off the tripod by a really strong gust of wind up on a mountaintop and so I wasn't able to really shoot that scene the way I wanted to and not only that but my camera got busted the LCD screen broke and so I literally didn't know if it was recording for that whole trip and I decided that I was gonna make the best of that trip I was really bummed out but I said you know since I'm already there I'm gonna be there for a few days I decided to shoot anyways and I thought what I would do is just record six hours of footage and hope hopefully just hoping that it would record and that it would come out fine in the end and actually I recorded all that footage and I didn't even realize that there was no way to get the footage out of the camera when the screen was broken because the camera is all touchscreen so there's no even any there's no way for me to even plug it into a USB port and to offload all that data because it's it's broken so right now I sent that camera off for repairs it's gonna cost me about five hundred bucks to repair it so maybe I'll get that footage back maybe I won't it's not even clear if it's usable footage but what I'm shooting on right now is a temporary camera that I have so it's a little lower quality than my usual videos and I hope to replace this within a few weeks with something better at least the same level that I had before maybe better but the point being that I'm going to be shooting more videos for you guys a lot more here in the studio but also more outdoor stuff I want to really show you some of the beautiful stuff that we have around Las Vegas here and some of the beautiful parks in California and Utah and elsewhere that are nearby that I'm going to be driving to and shooting cool footage in and coming at you with the same material but basically in nicer environments so you can not be so tired of this black backdrop all the time so that's the point the other point that I'm gonna make is that this was kind of a lesson for me because it was really trying to get out there and to shoot this footage and to see it crumble before me I literally dedicated myself to drive out for the whole weekend to shoot this footage and I ended up driving around inside of Death Valley for 300 miles so once I was inside the park I was driving for 300 miles inside the park scoping out all the nice spots where I can be shooting video and I got some really awesome when I got video out of a waterfall I got a video in front of the Salt Lake bed I've got videos with sunrises and sunsets I had videos on the sand dunes with wind blowing so a lot of really cool areas and a really powerful topics too so I had to prepare for the topics and the fryer for now those are lost but I'll get more to you and if need be I'll drive out there second time in a couple of weekends and redo the whole shoot because some of the stuff I got there was so amazing I don't want to let that not get published so the point there though was that you know I was really faced with the choice I was faced with a choice of do I do I Drive back home after my camera breaks because the camera literally broke on the first shoot that I was doing at 5 o'clock in the morning on a sunrise and I I stayed up and I got up just to the butt crack of dawn to shoot this scene and I was shooting it the Sun was coming up and just as I was about to click the record button the wind blew the whole camera down and it broke and that's when I really you know that that really put me to the test because I tell you guys to remain positive and I tell you guys to cut out the negative thinking and to be peaceful minded and Buddha like you know but it's hard to do that when you actually have something come in there and really disrupt your expectations and that's kind of what happened on that trip is that my expectations were really disrupted and right there immediately I knew that I had a choice kind of inside right I had an internal choice to make was I going to make the best of it and just kind of suck it up and go along with the flow of life or some was I gonna resist it was I gonna deny that it really happened was I got a kid myself wasn't gonna start complaining and bitching and moaning and to be honest I I made the decision right off the bat that I still have to keep going so I did make that decision I'll give myself points for that but even after I did that I was still kind of bitching and moaning I mean you kind of expect it because I knew that this camera was pretty much dead it was thousand dollar camera so there was just that you know a thousand dollars down the gutter but also more importantly was the fact that I wanted to make the most of this trip and I was already excited by all the stuff that I saw and all the opportunities that were gonna be there for me to shoot so I I was really distracted by that and honestly all the footage that I shot afterwards I was still distracted by it first of all because I was shooting speaking to a camera that I didn't even know if it was working so it's hard you know it's hard to muster that kind of that kind of willpower because to come up here and to speak on a topic I don't just speak on a topic but I try to create deep topics insightful topics so I'm literally taking and trying to cram the best of the best that I know into like a 10 or 20 minute segment and that puts a lot of pressure on me so that can be challenging it's one thing to do it in a studio nice and comfortable it's totally another thing to be doing it outdoors when you have the Hot Desert Sun baking your skin and you've got the Sun in your eyes and you've got five hundred miles that you've just been driving and you've been sitting in your car and you're feeling kind of lazy and not really in the mood to shoot a video and you just have to walk thousands of feet to come out here on this specific location I literally spent the whole weekend there scouting out these locations driving back and forth to make sure the shots we're just aligned right and to do that and then to to make this you know part of your vacation so I had a dovetail de with my vacation my weekend and to and then to then have to come out here and then to like speak on the spot when the wind is blowing in your face and you don't even know if the cameras are recording that and to tell yourself that you're gonna have to do this for six hours worth of footage so that's like six hours with the footage that's that's probably at least ten separate videos ten separate topics that have to gear myself up for and these topics I don't rehearse them ahead of time they're done impromptu they're done on the fly I tend to find that that's necessary in order to get the insights to come out because if I just come out here and read off a bunch of notes to you then you're not going to be engaged with it and the frankly the insights are not going to be as sharp because the best insights come on the spur of the moment and they need to be caught right there I have a lot of insights throughout the day that I don't really get to capture on film simply because they're they're fleeting right there's something they need to be caught in the moment so I do the best I can to come out here and try to get the best insights right now right here and I'm working on my own psychology to allow me to do that that's actually kind of like a mental game I have to play and train myself to be able to generate insights on the fly and make sure that they're the best insights of the day right here for the camera well imagine trying to do that when you don't even know the cameras working it's very demoralizing and for me is a really big challenge because I kept I kept saying to myself well just like stay positive stay positive right stay positive even though the cameras broken what's I mean what's bitching and moaning about it what's that going to do and on some level it worked but on some level it didn't work because that's hard to do right your mind naturally doesn't want to do that it doesn't want to buy into that because it's construct coming with all sorts of excuses such as well okay yes maybe it's not even so bad that the camera broke let's say I lost some money there but then do I really have to go out and now shoot all this footage with this broken camera wouldn't it be nicer just to like why don't I just rejoice the next few days and just like take it in and not shoot any videos and maybe I'll come back some other time and shoot some videos so see my mind was making up that kind of argument and I knew that that that wasn't you know that wasn't the higher-value thing to do that was the comfortable thing to do that was the easy thing to do it was easy to call off the trip and and moan about and come go home crying it was easy to even keep the trip on but then just use it as an excuse and say well the camera's broken so now I have to do any work I'll just kind of go enjoy the sights I mean that would have been nice but I kind of I really push myself and I said no I got a I got a take advantage of this opportunity I don't know when I'm gonna be back in Death Valley again maybe I'll never be able to get out there and some of the scenes that I'm seeing here and some of the ideas that are percolating in my mind and you get those out there's gonna be good potential videos but of course then my mind tells me well what if the camera is not working what if it's not working you're gonna waste your your all that time you're gonna waste six hours shooting a video just to find out from the repair center later on whether the camera is gonna work or not and I still don't know even though I said it for repairs even they don't know so how do you how do you deal with that well I have I have other videos that tell you to talk about how to be persistent how not to quit how to keep a positive attitude and really I had to start eating my own advice right I just started eating my own dog food here and I try to do that anyways but especially on this trip I had to do it because if I didn't then how could I come up here with a straight face and give you guys advice if I don't follow it myself so that's one of the ways that I reframed it one of the ways I reframed it is I have to say to myself well I have to walk my talk and for me that's really really big whenever I see myself not walking my talk that's an instant like damn I have to there's something wrong here I have to rethink what I'm doing and sometimes I fall off track I don't always follow all my own advice it's very difficult to do that so I always have to first and foremost look at what I'm doing I make sure that it's aligning and keep aligning myself and realigning myself and realign myself that's difficult right but that's kind of a challenge that I took on so for me that was a motivator another motivator for me was that I had to see the longer picture right I had to look deeper into what these videos really mean for me and why I'm shooting them and what I'm doing with my work here and what that meant was I had to look beyond just the fact that I'm gonna maybe shoot six hours of footage and then not actually ever be able to see it or be able to post it I had to reframe it in my mind said to myself well what am I really doing with these videos part of the thing that I'm doing is I'm trying to develop myself as I'm shooting each video and that means developing myself as a speaker and that means being able to deliver insights on the spot even if I don't feel like it even if I feel lazy even if I feel tired even if I feel sunburned even if I feel like what I'm gonna say is not going to be recorded and the cameras gonna break or my microphones not working or anything like that so part of the challenge that I saw in this in this really the opportunity that I saw in this challenge was that you know I'm gonna shoot six hours of footage and I'm not gonna know what about what I shot at least right now hopefully it'll work out but even if it doesn't work out I still would have gained something from it right so this is a way to salvage a bad situation is to see and you can probably find moments in your own life where this has happened to you is you have a really bad situation something just didn't go out and come out the way you want it to right you got some some bad luck well you can look at that and say well I'll just keep pushing through anyways and have faith first of all a little bit of faith that the camera will work but even beyond that just faith that what I'm doing here is going to advance me anyways and right now even though I'm still very much anxious about getting the footage back and I want it back but even if I don't get it back at this point what I said to myself is this well I shot six hours of footage under very harsh conditions those conditions shooting that valley were some of the harshest that I've ever shot in like wind sand in my face like literally all sorts of nasty stuff I'm sunburned and I said to myself well I survived all that and I just learned some valuable lessons about perseverance from that trip and I feel like next time I go out somewhere and I have a shoot on location and some kind of harsh conditions like that then I will already be toughened up right my skin will be tougher literally my skin will be tougher but my mind will be tougher too because I'm gonna go out there and I'm already have some experience about problems with wind problems with sand problems with locations all that kind of stuff I did learn from that the other thing I would have learned is I learned how to be on the spot and how to push myself through because honestly sometimes after a long two-mile hike to some sort of mountaintop once you get there and you admire the view and then you tell yourself well now I have to shoot a video on this and have to come up with some sort of topic right on the fly that's gonna be insightful and and is gonna match the beauty of this sunset or the sunrise that's that's a little bit of putting pressure on yourself right so so here I said you know what I'm gonna just learn to take the pressure and I'm gonna I'm gonna advance my skills with talking and I'm just gonna talk and talk at the talk at the camera and just hope that these six hours even if they never get posted on YouTube or somewhere else on my website then I still would have gotten the experience of shooting that and that means that next time I come out here to Death Valley which I will do if that footage doesn't come out I'm gonna come out there again in a few weeks and I'm gonna rerecord all that footage except now it's gonna be even better because now I have a little bit more experience about some of the challenges and hazards out there and I've also even talked about all those topics so the second time that I talk about all those topics even though I never really liked to talk about a topic twice because it just gets boring for me I also find that when I do have to rerecord a video what happens is that the second video many times will come out better because I've already talked about the topic and I feel more comfortable comfortable about it in my mind and now even though I'm not going down specific bullet points I still have kind of an unconscious record of what I've talked about in the past and the second time I'm line goes down that that same track it tends to come out pretty damn good and so that is basically what I learned from that trip this is kind of what I've been up to in the last few weeks and what I'm going to be up to in the next few months ahead is I plan to be shooting a lot more this kind of footage and I thought I would use this as an example of how to build perseverance and how to how to puff it out sometimes and I think that you know if you're starting a new business or you're in the middle of a business or you're starting your career or you're in the middle of a career and you're trying to do something powerful with that the way that I like to do with my businesses in my career then you're gonna run unto these kinds of problems where even when you're totally committed and you know what your life purpose is and you're very motivated something will come and literally knock you down will lock your camera down will knock your bank account down will knock you know will knock your health down will knock some part of the project that you're working on down and what you got to do is that this is where that life purpose comes in right when you are very conscious about your life purpose and you know what it is that it's almost like you have no other options no other options it's that idea of complete commitment complete commitment to what you're doing believing that it's going to work out believing that things will align for you even if something at the moment is not aligned believing that in the long run things will align and in the long run everything you're doing is building up more and more momentum and every time you get knocked down you just stand back up and if you get knocked down again you just stand back up and if you get knocked down again you just stand back up because you know that that's what it's gonna take to really get you to your goals to your dream and that dream is important to you you're gonna fight for it right you're gonna bleed for it and I feel like I did a little bit of bleeding the other weekend for my dream and I know that I'm a lot more bleeding to do in the future but I also feel like every time I bleed a little bit I get stronger I get more motivated I get more driven I feel like I set myself apart from the competition even more and now even though my cameras busted and I went through some anxiety and trauma with that now I'm back on my feet I got myself a temporary new camera shooting more video for you right now and I just see things as doing even better for me and going even better as I push through and I already feel more confident even right now standing in the studio it's the first time I've shot since coming back from Death Valley I already feel more confident more at ease because shooting in the studio is so much nicer so much easier now than doors I mean here it's like easy I thought this was hard I got a month back I thought it was hard to shoot at the studio now I'm standing here and this is like a cakewalk cakewalk compared to the the trials and tribulations that I went through last weekend alright so hopefully maybe that's this video encourages you to keep chugging along with whatever it is that you're doing keep plugging away at it and if you're encountering some obstacles right now don't despair push through them you gotta keep pushing through if it's something that is your dream you can never let go you have to be like a pitbull like you clamp down on whatever it is that you want and you just never let go once your once your jaws are clamped down on it you stay with it till the very very bitter end all right this is Leo I'm signing off go ahead post me your comments down below please like this and share this click the like button right now please and of course check out my newsletter signup at actualise that'll work for a free newsletter where I release free videos free 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