WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 quick productivity hack is how to be better on camera. 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.600 So this is something that we can always continue 3 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:10.120 to be better at. 4 00:00:10.120 --> 00:00:12.800 I am doing this currently. 5 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.880 We did the workshop and we have a video editor 6 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.080 that went through and cut up a bunch of clips 7 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:20.560 and I was forced to watch myself on this stuff. 8 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:24.280 And I was like, I have no right to be teaching online 9 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.600 and virtually streaming, like the amount of ums 10 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.640 and like all the filler words, 11 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:30.720 which I've even done on this now, 12 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:33.200 I'm just working to like pull these things out 13 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.200 of my communication habits. 14 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.440 So you can always improve and tweak 15 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:42.200 and find ways to be better on camera 16 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.960 because you're either gonna be teaching live to your group, 17 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.440 either on Zoom, or you may be filming a video, an ad, 18 00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:50.120 you may be putting something out on social media. 19 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:53.400 So there is no shortcut. 20 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:56.240 This is just putting in the work, putting in the time, 21 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.280 but this is a great little hack that I have used 22 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.000 and do this regularly to help correct, 23 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.520 self-correct on a few things. 24 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:04.519 I did not come up with this. 25 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.600 This is actually from a guy named Vin 26 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:09.320 who has an account called AskVin. 27 00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:11.240 You can check out his Instagram. 28 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:13.680 He's, this is all he does is help people 29 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.200 just master communication. 30 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.280 Really great little tips and tricks 31 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.040 on how to be better on video, Zoom, 32 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.000 and or just speaking from a stage. 33 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:23.840 Really, really cool. 34 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.360 So the first thing, of course, 35 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:29.720 is to go ahead and record like a three to five minute video, 36 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:32.160 something that you are planning to publish to your group. 37 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:33.400 It could be a welcome video. 38 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.600 It could be just an overview video, 39 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:37.680 what your group's gonna be about. 40 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:39.320 Put something together that you would share 41 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:42.560 either with your tribe, or you could put on social media. 42 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:44.320 And once you do that, 43 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:46.040 this is kind of the steps you're gonna do 44 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.880 is you're gonna take the camera at your phone. 45 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:49.880 Let's say you're filming on your phone, 46 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:51.440 just turn it upside down 47 00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:54.880 and just listen to the entire five minutes. 48 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:57.040 And so you can't see the video. 49 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.400 You're just listening to it and take notes. 50 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.120 Note the things, the things that you're saying. 51 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.160 Are you speaking fast? 52 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:05.000 Are you speaking slow? 53 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.280 Is it just all pretty much the same? 54 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.680 And you will quickly course correct 55 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.640 on how you're being perceived. 56 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:14.400 And of course, I know this is excruciating. 57 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.440 It's painful, but it's totally worth it. 58 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:19.920 So you're just gonna listen to it in step one. 59 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.520 The second time is you're gonna do the opposite. 60 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.080 You're just gonna watch the video and put it on mute. 61 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.600 And so this is great because you'll find out like, 62 00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:30.120 oh, I look over here, 63 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.120 or I do this weird thing with my hands, 64 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.360 or I'm just staring dead into this and I'm not smiling. 65 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.360 Like that was a lot of feedback. 66 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.320 Sometimes the people who are closest to you are like, 67 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:40.240 that's a great ad. 68 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.080 I loved it. 69 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:42.600 It'd be great if you could smile. 70 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:44.640 Are you happy to be doing this group? 71 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:47.040 You should probably show the people that you're happy. 72 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:50.000 So these little cues are really important 73 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.800 to just help you build up that confidence 74 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.360 for being on camera. 75 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.640 And it's just, again, 76 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:58.000 just putting in a lot of the reps to practice this. 77 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.360 And then the final step is just to go ahead 78 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:03.200 and use a, get a transcript. 79 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:05.800 You can use a tool like otter.a. 80 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:07.440 So this is a great little tool. 81 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:08.520 It's free. 82 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:09.720 You can just upload a video. 83 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:12.160 We'll spit out the transcript. 84 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:13.560 You can also use a great, 85 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.440 a little editor like Descript. 86 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:17.160 It is phenomenal for this. 87 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:19.600 So you can check that out where you just drop in a video, 88 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:21.680 it creates a transcript for you. 89 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.080 But the point is you would just go in here 90 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.400 and essentially read through the transcript 91 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.800 and find all those filler words, the ums, the likes. 92 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.000 So you know, you know what I mean? 93 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.640 Type things like all those, 94 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:36.240 all those filler words that we all use. 95 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.320 And it just gonna help you clarify some of the words 96 00:03:40.320 --> 00:03:42.520 and the communication coming from your mouth. 97 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.200 So try that. 98 00:03:44.200 --> 00:03:47.240 And of course, if you need more feedback, 99 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.920 then you could even give the transcript to a spouse, 100 00:03:50.920 --> 00:03:52.880 a friend, a colleague, 101 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:54.680 and have them give feedback as well 102 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:56.000 if you wanna be really brave. 103 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.240 But that's it. 104 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.000 It's a very, very simple process. 105 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.640 Just record a video, listen only, watch only, read only, 106 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:03.600 and go through that process. 107 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:06.200 It'll take you 25 minutes, 30 minutes 108 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:08.120 to go through that whole process. 109 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.960 And you will immediately get, level up your communication 110 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:13.880 and be better on video. 111 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.720 It's a very valuable skill to learn, life skill, 112 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:19.560 communicating virtually. 113 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.800 If you can have an event, you know, 114 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:24.840 be able to push your message 115 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:27.240 and what you wanna say through a camera, 116 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:28.960 you have to kind of overdo the energy 117 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:30.920 because you've got, you know, 118 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.400 you're trying to reach people who are just sitting at home 119 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:36.200 and we're not sitting in a cool auditorium together 120 00:04:36.200 --> 00:04:37.960 where there's music and sound and lights. 121 00:04:37.960 --> 00:04:40.040 And it just, it doesn't have that atmosphere. 122 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.080 So you really have to push your message 123 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:44.520 and who you are and what you wanna say 124 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:46.200 through the camera into the other side. 125 00:04:46.200 --> 00:04:48.680 So if you want as well, I just thought of this, 126 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.920 like you could upload that video to the community tab 127 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.480 and ask for feedback if you really want as well. 128 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:56.400 Any of us can give feedback. 129 00:04:56.400 --> 00:04:57.560 So there you go. 130 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.440 And I bet as I'm talking about all that, 131 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:00.280 the amount of time. 132 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.380 As I said, the word in the last 10 minutes, you guys are probably tracking every time. 133 00:05:03.380 --> 00:05:10.020 So I'll stop there, but that is the, that's our, our, our productivity hack for the week.