This text discusses the one behavior I’m specializing in to grow to be a greater video editor in 2023. I’ll dive into what makes a great behavior, some examples of my very own good and unhealthy habits, and what I’ll be doing the subsequent one year.
What Makes a Good Behavior?
I’m an enormous, enormous fan of habits. A great behavior will beat motivation each single time. A great behavior must be one thing that’s attainable at a excessive frequency that strikes the needle.
Let’s break these three core rules down — attainable, excessive frequency, impactful:
Attainable: Your behavior must be one thing you’re able to doing. Should you can barely run a mile, why set a purpose of working a mile on a regular basis? You’re going to burn out rapidly.
As an alternative, begin by working 5 minutes a day. As soon as you may run 5 minutes a day for a given period of time (let’s say 2 weeks?) then make it 7 minutes. When you hit 2 weeks make it 10 minutes. And so forth ensuring the length is impactful (extra on that in a second).
Excessive Frequency: You could have to have the ability to let life get in the best way of your behavior. We’re all going to have these days the place sh*t hits the fan and we simply actually can’t do our issues. That’s okay. You’ll be able to miss one. However strive your hardest to not miss two consecutive days. I counsel a behavior ought to happen 5-6 days every week. It’s a must to preserve the momentum going.
Me engaged on EVF lately is an ideal instance of that. I’ve gone just about all 12 months grinding away at EVF no less than a couple of minutes every day after which November hit. I used to be flooded with freelance shopper tasks and took a weeklong trip out of the county in early December. It was too straightforward to only say, “nah I’ll decide again up when issues decelerate.” Life by no means slows down. Two missed days rapidly grew to become two missed months. Whoops. However I’m again on the wagon now.
Impactful: The behavior has to create worth. Generally we have to begin with a behavior like “simply put in your trainers” if you wish to begin working or “simply open up a contemporary Google Doc” if you wish to write a guide. However you may simply get caught in a lure the place you’re simply checking the behavior field off your to-do checklist and it not making any distinction.
For me I’ve two good examples, one good and one unhealthy.
I’ve presently executed no less than 50 consecutive pushups for the final 2898 days. Sure, that’s practically 8 years. That’s roughly 150,000 pushups. I can do extra pushups than anybody I do know #humblebrag. 50 pushups is impactful as a result of it’s not straightforward by any means and continues to push me day in and day trip.
On the unfavourable facet, for the previous 3+ years I’ve taken no less than one Duolingo lesson a day to be taught Vietnamese. In any case this time (which takes about 10 minutes in comparison with the 1 minute I spend doing pushups a day) my Vietnamese remains to be horrible. Is it higher than three years in the past? Positive. However in any case this time you’d count on me to have the ability to write this complete e-mail in Vietnamese and I wouldn’t even know the place to start. The Duolingo classes aren’t impactful. I’m nonetheless coming to phrases with the truth that I want to vary this behavior and cease losing my time on it…
Okay, let’s get into what behavior I’m specializing in to be a greater editor subsequent 12 months.
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Resting on Expertise as a Video Editor
I’m nearly 36. I’ve been an expert editor for practically 14 years. The primary few years, in all probability like a variety of you studying this, I used to be stuffed with fireplace and motivation to be taught every little thing I may. And that’s precisely what I did. Tutorial after tutorial. Experimenting for funsies. Digging by means of boards for the heck of it. Finally the motivation waned and for in all probability a decade I’ve spent that point choosing up suggestions and tips right here or there however haven’t been devoted in the direction of enhancing my craft.
Hey, I may do the job simply tremendous at a excessive stage and I’ve different issues to do. My consideration turned in a billion different instructions than attempting to be taught. I’m lastly beginning to really feel the rust construct as much as such a excessive stage across the points of modifying and NLEs that I don’t work on usually that it’s time to get again within the behavior of studying.
A few weeks in the past I began a brand new behavior that I’m decided to follow-through on in 2023. And that’s to spend no less than 10 minutes a day, 6 days every week studying new expertise associated to modifying. This can in all probability be primarily by means of LinkedIn Studying and YouTube — I’m broad open to strategies although! I’ve already taken a Photoshop Automation course and a MacOS suggestions course whereas churning by means of about half of a 4-hour After Results 2023 course. Virtually on a regular basis I’ve picked up some small tip that I by no means knew.
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My behavior matches my three standards for a great behavior:
– It’s attainable in that I’ve 10 minutes a day to do that
– The frequency is sufficient in order that I can miss a day as soon as every week when life from work or parenting is simply an excessive amount of (this week was Christmas Eve — I had ZERO time to do that however I used to be in a position to decide again up the subsequent day!)
– And it’s impactful in that the ideas I’m studying have already began paying dividends (I’m engaged on creating new actions in Photoshop for a number of the monotonous duties I do ceaselessly)
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What habits are you engaged on to be a greater video editor in 2023?
What video editor behavior are you working for 2023? Do you wish to do one thing comparable? Let me know by hitting reply.
Right here’s to an ideal, affluent, and academic 2023!
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– Josh
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