1 year posting update

It's been about a year since I started posting content. It is now my full-time job and I have over 100k across platforms. I want to share two lessons that I've learned. I do want to say that when I started last summer, I did not intend on becoming an influencer, let alone this being my full-time job. Even though that way, I am grateful that it turned out that way. I moved to New York from Chicago and making videos was a really fun way to pass time and socialize. But my videos started doing really well and in the fall, I decided that this was something I was going to commit myself to. But since then, it's actually been a lot harder than I initially expected. Not necessarily the act of making videos, but being consistent through so much turmoil and change in my personal life. And that's the thing about consistency. When you commit, you must try your absolute best for your commitment to be able to withstand whatever curveball life throws at you. So it is so easy to be consistent when it is easy, but by definition, consistency is consistency no matter what the conditions are. The other thing that I found that is so difficult but very important is detachment from the numbers game. I'd like to think of myself as a pretty grounded person. I know myself worth and I have a really good support system. I know who I am. But even so, I found it very difficult not to be affected by my views, my engagement, positive or negative. When videos go viral, but I think for your mind and for your emotional state to be swinging on either side of the pendulum because of social media is very, very unhealthy for the mind, especially now it's my job. So if content is something that you're trying to get into, please try to be as grounded as possible in the real world, with your friends, with your hobbies, what you like to do beyond the internet. Thank you so much for being here. This isn't really a growth tip but rather just an observation of my experience thus far. It's such a strange and contemporary job that I'm blessed to have and I never take it for granted.