what is the worst thing you have ever felt some of you might answer was something like stubbing your Tae burning your hand or accidentally deleting an entire project from your computer but I bet many of you would say that one of the worst feelings you've ever had is the feeling of being stuck and what's worse not knowing where to even start to try to get unstuck well luckily I got stuck on purpose and then spent 4 years trying to figure out how to get unstuck just so I can make this video to tell you how
I did it I'm kidding I did not do that on purpose but I did do it and to this day it drives me crazy but it really did take me about 4 years to realize the simplest thing that genuinely changed my life in a matter of months and don't worry I'm going to tell you what it is that I realized but first I have to give you some context so let me take you back 5 years back the year 2019 and my age 16 years old awkward as I knew exactly what I wanted to do
with my life I was going to be a professional lacrosse player I knew that since I was a kid in fifth grade my dream is to play for a division one college team and I'm already going into my junior year of high school leaving me only 2 years to improve my skills enough to get there and to be honest I'm not even close to the level I need to be at to make it the sport was my life and I had no intention of doing anything else I lived and breathed lacrosse I was outside every
single day practicing by myself I woke up at 3:00 a.m. to watch the world games back in 2018 I played in high school club and even traveled across the country to play against those sweats on the east coast and I didn't do too bad over there either I was getting better slowly but surely I felt like I may actually have a chance to make it in time then everything changed China has identified the cause of the mysterious new virus the Italian government tonight put the entire country on lockdown I have today declared that the Corona
virus presents a public health emergency in the United States and in the early spring of 2021 [Music] I quit the sport that I had been obsessed with for the past 7 [Music] years let with no purpose I was lost passionate about nothing excited about nothing a new void in my existence and to make matters worse I was on a timer you see I am now 18 years old I'm not in college and I'm unemployed all of my past peers from high school are going to be graduating college in 4 years most of them will have
degrees and jobs and ultimately will be starting their lives so I only have four years to figure something out otherwise I'm going to feel like a total failure the next couple years were a blur things changed I was trying new things but nothing stuck I was doing photography and cinematography and I liked it but I wasn't very good at it and it really wasn't going anywhere time was tiing I went through a few jobs tried Drop Shipping please don't make fun of me I even tried to make some music at one point too uh spoiler
I sucked but what remained the same was that inescapable void in my soul the absence of purpose or identity dramatic I know but that's how I really felt all I wanted was to feel like I was living for a real reason I wanted something to point me in a direction any direction it literally got to the point where I was having thoughts like man a zombie apocalypse would be rough but at least I would have a more interesting life than this time kept moving and I kept staying still and it killed me which brings us
to December of 2023 with only a year and a half left until I'd see all of my past peers graduating college at this point I have spent literally hundreds if not thousands of hours doing literally nothing like actually just staring at the ceiling spacing out for hours unable to get myself to really do anything time kept ticking and I just kept floating every hour every minute every second of every day there was an immense building pressure to move and I just couldn't the pressure pressure built and built day after day and then finally it snapped
it was a quiet night no different from the others sitting there spaced out but for some reason that night it came to me I thought of a short phrase that convinced me to change everything after all this time or at the very least to try it was short and sweet it was simple and yet it was enough for me to change the course of my life it helped me get over my procrastination my hesitation my laziness you see I realized that unless I made a change nothing would change and then it became clear to me
it's either a or b it was that simple I had two choices either I change nothing and stay stuck feeling sorry for myself or I make a change I immediately second guessed myself but there's no guarantee that anything will change I could just be wasting my time and energy that that's a commitment that might not be worth it at all let me explain something to you listen closely option a is to change nothing which means you'll remain exactly where you are stuck in this place and you are a guaranteed failure but option b means you
try even if there's no guarantee of success there's also no guarantee of failure in my mind it was an obvious choice between the two I felt like it would be insane for me to choose the option where I'm guaranteed to remain stuck like this I was running out of time so I made my choice I'm on the clock I have a year and a half to pull this off I write down my goals I pin it on my wall I schedule out my weeks and despite all of my doubt I get started I post one
video and then the next nothing crazy was happening but I was enjoying it I was happy to even get a few thousand views and I was happy to at least be doing something with my time January goes by and then in February everything changed I had an idea for a new video I'd been making videos about cameras and photography but this time I took a risk a risk that could end up being a huge waste of time I only have a year and 5 months to make something of myself and this video was easily going
to take me about a week to make especially when you factor in the writing the filming the editing and worse of all the endless search for the perfect music to tie it all together this was going to take a while well at least that's what I thought the music in videos is like the icing on the cake and for my previous few videos I had spent hours and hours searching for the perfect icing to bring the cake together the way that I envisioned but even with all that searching the best music I could find still
wasn't working that is until I started using music bed this project was different solely because of Music bed it took no time at all for me to realize that music bed was different from any of the other platforms their music was clearly made for filmmakers you hear that they were able to simplify my process of finding the perfect song with search tools like their AI powered search by song feature I typed in one of my favorite songs that I knew match the emotions and tone I had in mind for the project and music bed instantly
showed me a ton of options that were similar to that song saving me hours of searching all of the music used in this video came straight from music bed's massive curated collection and I'm sure you've noticed the difference in the storytelling if you're a Creator wanting to make meaningful connections with your audience music bet is by far the best option make the switch music bed and you can start your 14-day free trial today with the link in my description and despite having full confidence and finding the perfect music for this project my doubt was still
immeasurable but there was some peace in that my lack of expectations allowed me to create something new [Music] I film I edit and finally I hit publish [Music]
