😰 I ALMOST quit — My BEST Performing YouTube Video

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Prepping for Sunday's Automated FACELESS video took 2 FULL days, all day Thursday and Friday!

And 8+ hours of recording all day Saturday and I almost quit multiple times.

It was extremely difficult to get through, and I made a last minute change Friday night that would spell disaster for the recording session.

I made a technical choice that came back to haunt me!

When Saturday came, I got prepped, I got one of my 3 YouTube shirts lol and started to get all the browser windows set up for the big recording.

I felt ready, I knew it was going to be a lot of recording, but I was ready.

Then it came.... my neighbor decided today was the day to bring in the gardeners for a huge clean up... The hedge clippers turn on right outside my window lol That killed 2 hours and really put me on edge. I was already way behind.

Then finally I got going, my gut felt horrible. I had such a long and technical video ahead of me. I have to be so careful doing these videos.

But I got going, got through the first couple videos sections (I record in short batches then pass them to my video editor).

Then I realized I made a serious error. The way I had built the automation (with a last minute change the previous night) left the automation with a serious bug. There was potential it wouldn't work at all. I spent 1.5 hours recording that session and it was a complete waste. It's like 2 PM now.

The night before I had decided to give people the option of using still images, or animated videos (built from those still images) for their Faceless video generator. But I realized the way I was building it wouldn't work, or might throw people off.

I thought about scrapping the feature all together and moving forward with only the animated videos, but I remembered 1) I already mentioned it in the intro, and two, it wouldn't be as good. And several people actually asked me if I could do it with static and animated videos so they could choose.

At this point I really want to quit, everything in my brain said I need to stop and recalibrate, and do this right the next day, Sunday, and regroup. But then I thought about how that would effect everything down the line, my entire timeline. It wasn't an option.

At the same time I'm talking to my video editor and he gave me the boost I needed.

@Sven Immelmann

said "Pope. This is all worth it. This is the video that gets you the silver play button and a coffee date with Hormozi. Keep your eyes on the prize."

So I sat down and focused and fixed the issue, I did it right, I re-engineered the solution which took another 30-45 minutes. And then started the recording again.