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$Yesterday was amazing. Being on a panel for time management and productivity was such an honour in itself, but then having people come up to me after my talk asking for further advice on productivity techniques I mentioned or just telling me I inspired them totally eradicated any self-doubt about my pursuit of personal-development blogging 💛 Thank you so much to those of you who are following my second channel and are leaving feedback, it’s been so fulfilling to know I’ve helped someone in a new way. 😊 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I started my second channel just over a month ago. It doesn’t make any money and it only gets a fraction of the views of my other channel, yet I love it so much more. Seeing even five comments telling me that my video was helpful or inspiring reminds me of why I started YouTube in the first place. I just want to help people, and I’ve now finally found a balance of helping people in a “professional” manner with an authentic and personal slant. In my past, I made the mistake of over-sharing my personal life in order to help people. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Whilst my personal experience DID help people, I went about it the wrong way and totally destroyed myself in the process (don’t do what I did, kids 🙈). I became resentful of myself for doing YouTube because, in all honesty, how I used YouTube ruined my life personally, professionally and mentally. I hope I will soon be able to look at my main channel without being “triggered” with feelings of regret, resentment or shame. I don’t have good memories of YouTube. The cost of helping was too high and I feel like I’m only just mentally paying off the debt. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That doesn’t mean I’ll abandon my main channel, I’m still going to post a video every week or so, but my second channel is really where my heart is - because that’s where I really feel I have the potential to help people. I’ll make my second channel more professional-personal and share my experience and learning processes in terms of productivity, organisation, mindfulness, no-buy and lifestyle. Helping people is the only reason I want to use social media. But of course, there’s still a 26 minute book review video coming on Tuesday...$