Change This ONE Thing To Be HAPPY IN LIFE

[Music] we're George and Lucy I'm the juicy blog ignore the camera that's just filming for our video we were kind of chatting about this event on the way here today kind of get some context and right so we kind of frame our intersection and what we understood this event about finding your own being positive that you guys today will be giving some general kind of news we have on life in general our kind of mindset the time we're living in and the tools that we have as this generation at our fingertips that we can use to our advantage so a bit of background first who we are so we George and Lucy and we're from the YouTube channel the juicy vlog our backgrounds kind of pre juicy blog I went to Bournemouth uni couple years back and study the media degree I did focusing in on radio production so I've always had a kind of need to create something a creative itch to kind of scratch I've always loved to cut it I've always loved making stuff and telling stories and things like that yeah I think mine was very different I had a bit of pressure to go to uni I didn't know what wanted to do and I thought I'd be doing it I thought you know I'm going to hold back I went into a full-time job and it wasn't very what's not very creative so it's kind of doing this is my creative outlet because we love being creative in the videos creating our own stuff and we absolutely love that and that's yeah and it's it's started by accident we never thought we'd you know make youtube videos or purposely make videos to put on the Internet we kind of we've been together nearly five years and we started when we went on holiday we went on a little cat a little camping break and we had a camera and we would take two taking photos Lucy just flicked into video it wasn't actually to make a video to put on YouTube it was more than using YouTube to upload it so we can yeah just for our friends or just for memories for us and then we've been on another holiday we thought I'll let's make another video that was fun we enjoyed editing it putting some music underneath putting it together that sort of thing and why do we do it we we kind of use YouTube as a firstly a creative outlet I think most of all something to do that is all on our own terms we have full control of the content it can start to finish we've got you know messages that we kind of want to push across positivity working hard that sort of thing and the feedback we get from people who watch us is that they kind of relate to us enough to kind of be motivated and kind of be inspired without blowing any trumpets of our own yeah exactly it's nice be nice to use it to put a message across and also networking it's opened up loads you know it's opened up today we wouldn't be here talking to you guys if you weren't asked to come to speak because you'd seen our videos and things like that we've made made friends online so the first time we met some of our good friends who also do YouTube they we invite them to stay off that we never met one before and they stayed the night that they felt like we already knew them yeah / yeah so our main platforms YouTube also do Instagram we've got a little bit of following there so that's our kind of platforms we upload sort of three videos a week we try to do about all different things just kind of film on what we're up to so this will go into that into part of today's video and you know the same kind of people tuning and like watching it you know we've got the stage now where we are making money doing something that we love which is incredible never started out with that intention but you know so there's a whole other behind-the-scenes side to it all it's working with brands building business relationships behind the scenes you're kind of running your own business so it's product endorsements and advertisement we did a recent one with piano cruises so we went on a cruise to the Canary Islands which was great and we made kind of videos of our time there sort of promoting their trip promoting their holidays reviewing their restaurants but just naturally we've been to our kind of contact and we don't want you to come away from this and think oh you need to be YouTube or Instagram and that's not what the message we're giving it's more but we'd love you guys to start thinking about a personal brand and how you can use that so whether your yoga teacher whether you do gardening is you know wherever you do you can use a personal brand and use your social media platform just to progress that I mean you don't have to do it because you're a youtuber for example the body coach just means nobody coach yeah so he never started Instagram to be an instagramer but he used it to get his the recipes out there in his fitness workout out there so he's not known as an instagramer in charge but he's used some other people's eyes already on Instagram using the tools that we've got available as a generation right now which are currently being under used by a lot of people we see a lot of potential and a lot of people around us who we just think if they did things do in the right way with us with the right tools they could get to where they want to be quicker so you know positivity kind of comes into all of we love master a big focus of this event is positivity our whole thing everything we kind of talked about centers around being a positive person believing in yourself having that belief in the first place of what you want to achieve but then actually executing and doing something about it so you know we all have ideas people have things they say they want to do an analogy I like to use is you can only read so much about doing push-ups you know you actually got to do the push-ups so it's also about focusing in on your set and not worrying about anyone elses doing what anyone else is thinking about what you're doing so the sooner you cut that out that cuts away a ton of negative energy a lot of people are kind of caught up in what other people are thinking about them or their being they think they're being judged you see people spending time and energy on worrying about what other people are thinking of them if they redirected that same energy into just focusing on their thing whatever they love doing and executing that they would set themselves up so much better a lot of people kind of overthink have you ever been in a situation where you just can't make a decision on something yeah we all have dinner every night yeah it could be big could be small something we've been trying to do recently is making decisions more efficiently and more quickly just to get to where we want to be in a in a more kind of practical way in a more efficient way and still applying logic but realizing that actually whatever you choose is what's going to happen and you're never going to know the alternative so as soon as you kind of get in that mindset that you're never going to know the other side from the decisions that you make it kind of lifts a whole lot of pressure doesn't it allows you to kind of move forward with your fan in your goals and with goals I think there's we like to look at girls of two different types you put your long term goals and your short term goals so long term might be you want to get married you want to have kids or you want to have a house where you want a job you're happy these are made up from the short term goals and short-term goal is going to be changing and evolving your time so if something changes in your life don't let it this heart in you and make me think that you leaving your way from your long-term goals it's not the shape of our goals change but you're still going to have the end result if you work I think also you don't have to justify any goals or ambitions people are constantly the Pinter first kind of verification and justification from other people but you really don't have to do that what you choose to do is nothing to do with anybody else and what anyone else is doing is nothing to do with you or us you know people are quick to judge it's human nature to look at something and quickly analyze it and form an opinion straightaway that just kind of happens for us it's about kind of blocking out that noise not valuing anyone else's opinion of ourselves or yourselves higher than that of your own and just doing whatever the thing is that you love unapologetically yeah I think a lot of people are caught up in kind of people think of them in a special associate idea a lot of what we do that's hate comments there's he should be doing this she shouldn't be doing that you know portraying people prey an image of himself sometimes because of some insecurities or because they think they're being judged an image going on behind the scenes and just to kind of argue with ourselves for a second here we don't actually think there's anything wrong with having your Instagram as a high librarian of your life we think that's okay but as long as the intent is well yeah if if Miki wanted to wants to post a picture of his brand-new Yeezys with a dollar emoji as the caption who cares fine but you know if the reality is that you know he's still living at home he's bought him on a credit card he's adding to his death just to kind of put an image out on social media then he's not necessarily doing the right things that's going to progress him in the right way and that's even if the that's if you who are we to say if you want to do a lot that also is nothing to do with us if we asked him do you want to be happy do you want to be fulfilled it's probably gonna say yes and we're going to be seen by young being here that you want to progress you want to do well and maybe awareness your positive thinking your fitness yes your yoga skills yes we're living in a time where it's possible to do whatever we want and I think that's so amazing and we can choose to skip our spare time so if we probably pin3 we can think how we can spend it guys are we gonna go to where are we going to go and we need to not take that for granted it's so amazing that we can do that and actually like build our own lives up and how are you going to be and it's such a free society in that instance so realizing what you've already got is really important perspective yes exactly so the fact that we can all sorry the fact we can all just sit here and you know have shots be free be in the countryside just to stop and think and how amazing second I saw a family or she knew she was going to be dying in the next week Delilah facing three dad and she wrote a letter like to make things a bit more and it was basically saying that the bad things that happened to us it was going you're 20 minutes late home from work so I was Road work okay so it doesn't matter like in the time it might be the worst thing ever really it's when you go to Waitrose and they've run out of your favorite our milk it's annoying but it doesn't matter and like you don't get as many likes to Grandma's you love that man so he's having that perspective and thinking being grateful do you having that and turning around that's how you actually I just heard a definitely we we are constantly looking to cut out any negative energy kind of in our lives we're still acknowledging that bad things happen in the world obviously but I think we've been doing recently is really owning ourselves and owning our choices that we make people are so quick you know I hate my boss or this person did this which means I'm gonna now sulk for a week you know it's owning your own decisions and choices and getting into the mindset that everything you do is is your fault blame yourself when things go good blame yourself when things go bad everything you do is your fault not expecting anything from anyone else is huge yeah and this is a cut there's a difficult thing at first but we've been trying to do this your art yeah you'll never be disappointed again if you don't expect anything from anyone else this appointment kind of sets you back if you give more than you get you will never be disappointed again and the thing is is giving without expectation a lot of people kind of you know do things because they want that action to happen or if I do this enough this person they might do this for me if you learn to kind of give without expectation and just always be the bigger better person a ton of negative stuff just goes it just disappears and that's kind of what holds a lot of people back than we see and so yeah a bit more practical stuff back to kind of what we do part of this took me wanted to talk about kind of building social media I don't know if any of you were kind of interested some of you might have more followers now so we're not by any means saying that we know everything or we've built the biggest platforms or nothing of the sort but you know we're kind of living in some little things that we've learned along the way and it does come back to this thing of personal whether we know it or not so it's you dress how we act in public how we act when we first meet someone post we put on social media foodie the difference is now that personal brands are online for everyone to kind of see and it was that in the past a personal brand would kind of be reserved for movie stars footballers celebrities kind of traditional celebrities but now because the scale of audience of things like YouTube Facebook Instagram anyone can build a personal brand and make it work to their advantage to kind of follow the path and the goals that they and building on to sort of new stuff so you need to find one each so if you're currently thinking about design is something I don't think about what it is that makes you happy your passion and that's where writing it from the heart logging or writing blog posts or Instagram or whatever it may be we had an example the other day someone that follows our sent us a message and said I'm gonna start a blog what should I write at home and we said well don't start a problem cuz you want to start as long as you've got something that you're so interested in there was such a passion for you know all about your eyes about them if you were doing it for the sake of it it's not a naturally the audience winner and you won't enjoy you might not be writing anything again and it needs to be coming from the heart again it just being very very natural yeah you can't force your Miche no you have to find it you after you know content for us is a kind of extension of our thoughts and an extension of ups yeah as real people just kind of living in the world rather than any anything we're trying to force into any kind of tunnel and if you can reverse engineer the attention in you should be quite clever about how you post it where you focus and what times like that post up what hashtags use you can be clever about this and we do a lot of things with micro content so once we put a video out then we said about three days a week that's a start of it we don't pick apart this vlog and I think we're we gonna post it so this part Facebook great we'll take a picture of this part but it was Facebook and that might get people clicking into video an Easter Brown thing on video or Instagram stories we can do that and that with a certain bit that we can or Instagram follow it's my life I think I swipe and you can watch it their eyes are already on Instagram so it's not unnatural that you're not taking it from another platform they're already on and it's just naturally leading into them coming to our channel you know yeah being platform appropriate and using the tools that we've got to your advantage you know if you're in the fitness industry and you start posting little videos on Instagram talking about your workouts or talking about your progress people love that I like it social media is kind of reality TV 2.0 we like to think people love people's stories and they get so hooked time and if we you know it could start to open up huge opportunities like some of the stuff we've got to do through making videos and stuff the emails would get offering us I don't know like coming to events and seeing this in that it's quite incredible actually and the fact you started from nothing if anyone can do it and it started you start it yourself so the business side against advertising happens when there's a lot of eyes in one page and the company wants to promote whatever going to get the product to service this is basically advertising the new version as you said the most common question we get asked is how the hell do you make money from posting to social media what about it used to be our company had a 100,000 pound budget for something and they used to put it onto the radio or TV or newspaper let's go do that now but when you're doing that you're diluting it you're giving a product to so many people and not as making enough people would come back because it's such a vast audience with this you can select their company use 100,000 pounds picked 100 influences and pays them to talk about it and because it takes example of gym leggings or something as a business they send them to each person and because you're already following that person fitness if that person's and saying I'll buy these gym leggings or I really like them then they're more likely to click through because it's already the type of thing they're interested in because that's why there's a targeted audience so advertising is changing companies are definitely moving forward on this a lot still aren't you know but only money on social media is great but you do any get in what you sorry you'd only get out you put in a lot of people think it's easy when they stop looking into it but kind of building a brand strong enough to attract you know advertisers and enough people to even watch your stuff and it takes the hard work time patience and also constantly upskilling yourself and keeping on top of what you're doing and making yourself better every time you step along the way let's just scale the more followers you have the more the mall around the advertising costs more you can't charge that's why the biggest youtubers are living the highlife you know they're living in mansions living YouTube flying here there and everywhere the attention of people used to be on you know TV and it still is TV commercials but you know that's why TV advertising is still so expensive but really what happens now when an app that comes on TV you're either watching on catch-up or you skip through or when the adverts come on you grab your phone and you're scrolling through social media it's just where the eyeballs are going so if you want to make money on social media that's great but it it can't be the main reason that you do it you have to believe in the content that you're making and have to have a message that you want to cross the love of creating the content has to be the reason that you do it in our opinion and it's like like any birch to make a moment we think we think you should love what you do we think life's too short to not especially kind of with the opportunities now that we have in this society in 2018 they're just absolutely endless I've got a friend who started a clothing brand on Instagram and he got a few samples made up he sent them out to maybe 10 20 different people with small-to-medium Instagram followings they started getting a bit of traction and now that's what he does full-time you know making good money he's designing his own clothing which was always his dream ultra Instagram like the opportunity if you work hard and do the right things and take the right advice is incredible and there's a whole culture as well it's know about wishing by the way living for the weekend and living for all of these which is great like if you've got a lovely really amazing don't let that be the people that hate their Monday to Thursday's and living for Friday that's a huge chunk of your life if you're doing something you don't enjoy every day change it do something this is handy this is a big thing that we're trying to talk about more at the moment is this overarching kind of happiness thing again that I was talking to someone I know recently and they were saying I wish this week would hurry up you know they're having quite a bad week and I said don't wish your life way and I was quite light hearted and she said I know well I wouldn't wish my time away but I wish him work time away I said work time is your time it's just one time it's just you're it's just your life and she kinda went you're right actually that she genuinely was dreading Monday through to Thursday living for a couple of days at the weekend when she's too tired anyway to do anything that she really wants to do and I think people kind of get stuck in that and the mindset that that's normal why should we hate 60 70 percent of our you know day-to-day experience we that's something we're trying to kind of talk about a bit more and push our yeah we've got so I suppose we live by and it's a little we like think we made it up we definitely didn't do the thing it's good it's not that good English we tried to apply this to everything we can so do the thing do the thing you love do this don't not do the thing that you want to do because someone tell you not to so just go through whatever it is it's not unrealistic what you think it's not bad don't live someone else's dream also do whatever the thing is that you need to do to get away with it I think that's that we like to provide them a lot of things absolutely and it's also you know come back to social media a lot of people get worked up with they get slightly they get into Twitter rants and they get into all this kind of negative stuff just choose who you follow follow people that inspire you follow people that you like to follow follow content that is going to help you in some way and just unfollow anything that's kind of annoying you you can choose that most of us are consuming social media every day information if we label that as kind of positive reinforcement then that can start to change things and think really good things can start to happen yeah oh yeah I've written a quote here who have you seen the greatest show man that's my favorite quote we saw it and actually slept through Harvard yeah fell asleep but a quote that stuck in my mind was we can live in a world that we design and I think now more than ever that's so true I mean fact that you designed this yeah you've you've this slide as an idea didn't and now here we all are there's people doing this it's also hot the fact that you can just do that you promoting it through social media and you've got hold of us through social media it's amazing what I like most about that is they're full of ideas in our videos start from nothing we just you can create it for yourself out of zero and it's just about making the most of your time working hard whatever your goals kind of are and I think a lot of business comes down to like fears and things that might be something bees doing it through it's fear of the unknown fear that company what happens if I do this place that's that's what scary that I'm are scared of is not doing what I love and not doing the things I do because I put the fear and realizing that in 50 60 years time waking up thinking what am I done I've done I haven't done why regret it exactly regretting your decision you've been scared to do it like just take the leap do what you need to do together and kind of it's like there is that walk all tomorrow bring what's happening next and that's that's great and we're gonna end our little talk now on a quote that we love another claim another quote we love quote this doubt kills more dreams and failure over well thanks for listening [Applause] what would it be for yeah what you what you trying to do to get more awareness to the charity YouTube is great for that sort of thing for telling stories and luck in a longer format Instagram is great for kind of quick jabs of awareness and he'll posts maybe ten twenty second videos because the attentions the kind of attention spans less on Instagram so if you've got to find a longer story to tell YouTube is great for that but you know it's kind of being across all platforms I'd say Facebook YouTube and Instagram and making content specifically for those platforms so some people kind of will make a Facebook post to make a YouTube video and then post it post the whole thing on every platform but that kind isn't the best way you want to be kind of platform appropriate it was sort of like it's been designed for that platform and that is natural to them and I think we're so if say you put an Instagram video up you can promote the hell out of it on your Instagram stories and every capital you do so that week you can push people towards each other so it's kind of pushing across promotion just we've got we've got people who watch the YouTube videos who don't follow us on this bandwidth and vice versa and it's kind of constantly trying to kind of weave for to you together a smartphone yeah great yeah honestly my little tripod like just six in front of a window lighting and the quality is good enough if it was good enough message and you know real story that you want to push across is it's always the content we're kind of we've kind of obviously that is quite a decent hour we've kind of invested in that but we're kind of interested in the filmmaking side of things as well so we'll try and make things look as nice as possible but really it's the content and it's the story the message behind you oh yeah we're like the biggest walking contradiction we don't care what any of you think of us but actually really we deeply care like it yeah yeah we read our comments and if we get paid comments we think oh you know screw you you don't mean anything to us well bury this night when I first started Matt we needs to get like horrible until I got my looks and things and like it was clearly like the Sun someone sitting behind a keyboard and wouldn't actually say it in person but I used to get so disheartened I'll be like I can't do it like if you decide are they you know you're never going to meet them they're just some line behind a keyboard for it empathy what's going on in their life you know how can can you reply in a way that would help them maybe the map times actually sometime will reply to these comments and the number of times we've had an apology back sorry whatever they decide to comment on us there's nothing to do with us we've got a follower and he makes YouTube videos when he did and recently he was about 15 years old he's good I think and he got really badly bullied at school because he's making YouTube videos and like that he sent us a really long message of Instagram it wasn't him trying to say like what do I do but he was just saying just to let you know I've actually seen you to my channel and he had the biggest channel for anything he was doing so well and for his agent he was like so good at good yeah and the fact that he goes to school so he's got this life on YouTube he's absolutely loving it he goes to school when he gets bullied for doing what he loves like that's so wrong but I guess when I was 15 I probably would have taken at the heart and gone no I'm not doing it I'm gonna delete my channel but it's turning that mindset around and helping me with that situation if you know something that's like that happening someone help them in we've sorted quite a long message back didn't we another trap he's now started and turn it back up again which is amazing and we're like kind of helping them promote that once you get in that clear kind of mindset of what you want to achieve and how you're gonna do it yeah and you know it's take take advice take comments take what's the word I'm looking for drop to criticism maybe but if it's flower negativity it just doesn't have anything to do it just doesn't help yeah yes you're right yeah how many how many motivational quotes do you have to read how many motivational videos do you have to watch on YouTube how many speeches do you have how much of this kind of stuff you have to listen to until I think it's just yeah acknowledging that you're not you know everyone has a bad day and that's absolutely fine but I think if the overall everything you're doing is leading to a positive kind of path I think the more people can do that the better you know why would we why would we want to be sad and yes sir of course that happens when people have mental health issues and stuff like that learning I think a lot of the noise that we spoke about just be cut out it just can't be cutted unfollowing people you know not talking to that friend anymore because they're dragging you down I think there's little things that can be done which are practical things overall in the long term but then sometimes I sit down to actually know someone like let's think about this girl we follow on YouTube at the moment that she's gone travelling which is incredible you know she's making a living doing what she loves and she's in Bali and wasn't quite as spectacular as she thought it was going to be and she went on this huge rallies on Instagram really moaning and it's it's stuff like that where you start to think well well you're traveling the world you're making a living doing what you love and you tell us that we haven't comes that conclusion and you're moaning that your hotel didn't have that wardo breakfast is it's just mindset I think a lot of it is mindset core I call it a minute-by-minute life experience because all we have is the present and we have is right now that's the past means nothing and the future means that thing we've just got right now so if we can you know do better can be the best kind of people that we can I think that's a good thing yeah people are for us people people you know here are kind of content and some of the stuff we've been talking about today and they they kind of thing well who are you to tell me to be happy I am happy I'm absolutely fine we go great we don't have any advice for you know you've won you've done it you know that's great but the people who relate to it are people who need that kind of knee telling actually then they can't you know they don't need permission it's about the mission [Music] there's nothing wrong with it it's so important jobs if then applies to you but some people think this is my job this is what I do there's up things out I think just do it love right anything else thanks for listening [Music] you