quick productivity hack is how to be better on camera.
So this is something that we can always continue
to be better at.
I am doing this currently.
We did the workshop and we have a video editor
that went through and cut up a bunch of clips
and I was forced to watch myself on this stuff.
And I was like, I have no right to be teaching online
and virtually streaming, like the amount of ums
and like all the filler words,
which I've even done on this now,
I'm just working to like pull these things out
of my communication habits.
So you can always improve and tweak
and find ways to be better on camera
because you're either gonna be teaching live to your group,
either on Zoom, or you may be filming a video, an ad,
you may be putting something out on social media.
So there is no shortcut.
This is just putting in the work, putting in the time,
but this is a great little hack that I have used
and do this regularly to help correct,
self-correct on a few things.
I did not come up with this.
This is actually from a guy named Vin
who has an account called AskVin.
You can check out his Instagram.
He's, this is all he does is help people
just master communication.
Really great little tips and tricks
on how to be better on video, Zoom,
and or just speaking from a stage.
Really, really cool.
So the first thing, of course,
is to go ahead and record like a three to five minute video,
something that you are planning to publish to your group.
It could be a welcome video.
It could be just an overview video,
what your group's gonna be about.
Put something together that you would share
either with your tribe, or you could put on social media.
And once you do that,
this is kind of the steps you're gonna do
is you're gonna take the camera at your phone.
Let's say you're filming on your phone,
just turn it upside down
and just listen to the entire five minutes.
And so you can't see the video.
You're just listening to it and take notes.
Note the things, the things that you're saying.
Are you speaking fast?
Are you speaking slow?
Is it just all pretty much the same?
And you will quickly course correct
on how you're being perceived.
And of course, I know this is excruciating.
It's painful, but it's totally worth it.
So you're just gonna listen to it in step one.
The second time is you're gonna do the opposite.
You're just gonna watch the video and put it on mute.
And so this is great because you'll find out like,
oh, I look over here,
or I do this weird thing with my hands,
or I'm just staring dead into this and I'm not smiling.
Like that was a lot of feedback.
Sometimes the people who are closest to you are like,
that's a great ad.
I loved it.
It'd be great if you could smile.
Are you happy to be doing this group?
You should probably show the people that you're happy.
So these little cues are really important
to just help you build up that confidence
for being on camera.
And it's just, again,
just putting in a lot of the reps to practice this.
And then the final step is just to go ahead
and use a, get a transcript.
You can use a tool like otter.a.
So this is a great little tool.
It's free.
You can just upload a video.
We'll spit out the transcript.
You can also use a great,
a little editor like Descript.
It is phenomenal for this.
So you can check that out where you just drop in a video,
it creates a transcript for you.
But the point is you would just go in here
and essentially read through the transcript
and find all those filler words, the ums, the likes.
So you know, you know what I mean?
Type things like all those,
all those filler words that we all use.
And it just gonna help you clarify some of the words
and the communication coming from your mouth.
So try that.
And of course, if you need more feedback,
then you could even give the transcript to a spouse,
a friend, a colleague,
and have them give feedback as well
if you wanna be really brave.
But that's it.
It's a very, very simple process.
Just record a video, listen only, watch only, read only,
and go through that process.
It'll take you 25 minutes, 30 minutes
to go through that whole process.
And you will immediately get, level up your communication
and be better on video.
It's a very valuable skill to learn, life skill,
communicating virtually.
If you can have an event, you know,
be able to push your message
and what you wanna say through a camera,
you have to kind of overdo the energy
because you've got, you know,
you're trying to reach people who are just sitting at home
and we're not sitting in a cool auditorium together
where there's music and sound and lights.
And it just, it doesn't have that atmosphere.
So you really have to push your message
and who you are and what you wanna say
through the camera into the other side.
So if you want as well, I just thought of this,
like you could upload that video to the community tab
and ask for feedback if you really want as well.
Any of us can give feedback.
So there you go.
And I bet as I'm talking about all that,
the amount of time.
As I said, the word in the last 10 minutes, you guys are probably tracking every time.
So I'll stop there, but that is the, that's our, our, our productivity hack for the week.