what's up I'm gonna tell you about my
favorite things in January my name's
Doug Huntington I'm the founder of niche
site project I normally talk about
Amazon affiliate marketing internet
marketing and sometimes a little project
management and productivity this is a
new thing I'm gonna try I'm gonna talk
about things I like and you given month
so I got the idea from some other
YouTube channels I'll actually tell you
about a few of those YouTube channels
here are a couple things I'm gonna tell
you about this month I will go over some
journaling stuff that I'm into right now
I'll talk about some books that I've
read additionally I didn't drink any
alcohol in January so today right now is
the 30th of January so I just have
another day left to go and it's
interesting it may not be a challenging
thing for you but for me it is a little
challenging and I'll explain more about
that the other thing is I've been
I've been using an app which I'll tell
you about a minute it feels good I like
it
last thing I'll tell you about YouTube
channels that I'm watching and I'm
diggin right now there's a handful and
these vary they change from time to time
people ask me all the time about the
YouTube channels that I follow so I will
tell you about them today first thing
that I'm into is Journal so I've had you
know more interest in journaling as I've
done more self-improvement type projects
and stuff so number one thing I had it
right next to me a second ago but the
stoical journal so this is like the
daily stoic and the daily stoic journal
and they kind of go hand in hand so the
other journaling thing that I'm into is
bullet journaling so let me know in the
comments by the way are you familiar
with bullet journaling and I just used a
plain black notebook that I had it's
fairly high quality paper I can't
remember I think it's like 80 grams per
I'm not sure that measurement it's like
80 80 grams per square meter or
something like that I could be totally
off but it is fairly thick paper it's
you know pretty standard one from like
Office Depot or something like that that
has like the date at the top is that the
actual traditional bullet Journal but
that's okay you could use any notebook
this is where I really got into the
bullet journal concept so here's the
deal when I first saw bullet journaling
I saw YouTube videos I saw these very
beautiful like artistic journalists and
there were really nice drawings it was
very like ornate as you could tell I'm
no artist right a lot of the stuff that
I do is sloppy I'm no designer I don't
have a background in that I'm much more
like I just didn't get all the
beautifulness of the bullet journal and
I thought that was like what it was
supposed to be like calligraphy or
something like that when I went and
actually looked at the bullet journal
website it is merely a framework which
is hugely flexible it turns out people
that are into it they are sometimes like
really good artists so that's why we see
such beautiful artwork in these bullet
journal videos but I'm not going to go
and tell you about all the frame work of
the bullet journal but I will tell you
the number one thing that I got out of
the bullet journal now let me explain a
problem so I have like several different
notebooks and I typically keep a
notebook sort of like this I've talked
about it a few times but I'll keep the
notebook like this I'll have like
partial to-do lists
I'll have a little journal entry um
maybe we'll do some free writing
sometimes I brainstorm I'll do a brain
dump
it's a multipurpose notebook the
notebook usually lasts me I make it like
9 months or 10 months something like
that the cool part is while I'm working
with a notebook for like a couple weeks
I can refer back to maybe a journal
entry that I wrote in there but
basically I can't find anything so I
have journals from a couple years ago
where I know there's like interesting
information but I can't find any other
you may I may as well just like throw in
the notebooks right they're kind of
useless if you can't find the
information back in there the majority
of it is like to-do list kind of stuff
and like notes and tasks for a day that
said the most obvious solution is
staring me right in the face right the
bullet journal talks about this
immediately there's an index at the
beginning right all you have to do is
have the pages numbered and then you can
write the page number write the topic
you could find whatever you need to find
and like a second so the notebook that
they typically refer to I don't know how
to pronounce it but it's a notebook that
has a couple pages at the beginning that
are labeled index and all the pages are
numbered so problem solved now my
notebook it didn't have page numbers but
I just added a min right no big deal I
just you know had it in the page numbers
and it's good to go
the funny part and there's such
flexibility with the bullet journal that
it didn't matter but as I was numbering
it
I like wrote the wrong number a couple
times but it doesn't matter I just click
ended up putting you know 65 a and 65 B
I mean relatively speaking I could find
the entry that I'm looking for even if I
labeled it with you know animals and
shapes or whatever but numbers and a
couple letters I'll be able to find what
I need so the bullet journal good so far
and it's really a framework so if you
had the interpretation of a bullet
journal being like a piece of artwork go
check out bullet journal comm and you'll
see it's merely a framework it's a very
flexible framework and you could pick
they encouraged you to pick and choose
which you want to use and omit stuff
that you don't want so if you're looking
for a framework of like productivity or
a way to like journal and keep like
stuff like that
check out that framework and see how it
works for you it's great for me so far I
mean it was kind of doing it anyway and
now I just have like a slight
very slightly more formal way than when
I was doing before and the magical index
where you could find you know what you
wrote and when you wrote it it's
fantastic
up next is books that I've read so the
print book that I've read sort of the
business oriented one is this one here
by Dan realm called back of the napkin
and it's all about solving problems and
explaining problems with pictures and
simple pictures right they intend I mean
you can tell just by the artwork on the
on the book that you know they're using
stick figures you don't have to be an
artist
to you know solve problems with drawings
and they actually want it to be
approachable right they want you know
non artists and regular people to you
know use images that you could draw on a
napkin to explain things and the
concepts and ideas are quite simple in a
few you know different ways however the
framework again is really useful and it
gives you sort of a process to go
through so I'm hoping that I'll be able
to use more images to explain concepts
in marketing and in general to you know
help explain to other people these ideas
but you know a couple that interesting
things are around like my background is
a project manager where they have an
image in here as like a sort of a
flowchart Ihnen you apply like a
flowchart to a timeline and you end up
with something pretty close to like a
project plan or maybe a swimlane diagram
stuff like that it's very interesting
how you can slice and dice different
concepts so this was a really cool book
and I'm looking forward to you know
using some of the tools that I've
learned in here and you know real life
problems and stuff like that so one of
the cool things that they had in here
was divided into different sections like
a lot of books are and they had a
you know a quote you know MBA section
where they went through a case study in
me they taught the concepts in the first
couple sections of the book and they
apply it to a real-life situation which
you know is a made-up situation however
it was a very realistic one in fact it
sounded like a you know a case study
that actually could be covered in an NBA
you know type situation where they just
changed the names and some of the
specific you know concepts but the main
ideas were very real I found the book
like super helpful and if you're
interested in you know bringing those
kind of ideas to full time like
corporate job or if you're an
entrepreneur like it applies there as
well I mean a lot of times you know if
we have to explain our business whatever
your business may be to someone who's
not in the industry you kind of have to
break it down into simple concepts and
that's what back of the napkin does
other books that I read so I read it
probably like 50 percent fiction as well
I usually read a fiction book before I
go to bed so I kind of go on like binges
of certain authors I especially like
sort of crime-drama books so I've been
reading a an author named Michael
Connelly
he wrote the Bosch series so there's a
Harry Bosch crime series and then I
found he wrote another series called The
Lincoln Lawyer so I read a couple
Lincoln Lawyer books in January I also
read a Isaac Asimov science fiction book
obviously a very well-known author and
that one was called Fantastic Voyage
have started a couple others that I
haven't finished yet and honestly I
haven't been reading as many business
books this month like typically I would
have read more but I was sort of busy
with other stuff so I read a few fiction
books but I only made it through one
non-fiction book back in the napkin so I
have a few others like on my
plate right now that I'm working through
hopefully I'll be able to tell you about
those in February I have been meditating
every day since December 22nd so last
year I really didn't meditate much and
I've gone through certain periods there
was actually a period in like 2014 or so
where I meditated I think for about 90
days straight and then I kind of like
lost interest and stopped I read a few
books towards the tail end of the year
like in November and December around
productivity a lot of those books
referenced some form of meditation and
I'm interested in it so I thought I'd
give it a shot and I downloaded an app
called calm it's one of the more popular
meditation apps and I really liked it so
I upgraded it and paid for I think it's
like 60 bucks for a year or so and it
unlocks the whole app so you can pick
you know whatever meditation sort of
theme you want to go on and it's a great
way to track your streaks and the number
of you know times you've meditated in
the last month or whatever
a couple people asked me if I had used
headspace and I tried headspace back in
2014 and here's the deal
I thought the person's voice and accent
were like I just didn't appreciate like
they were distracting and I hated I just
I listened to like one or two of the
sessions and like I'm out but the calm
out it's much more pleasant voice to my
ears and that's a very personal thing so
you know check it out most of the apps
out there you know have some sort of a
free trial you could test drive them so
give it a shot if you're interested in
using it half when I meditated before I
basically just focused on my breathing
and set a timer that was pretty much it
I kept it simple and it was fine dry
January so my wife and I decided not to
drink any alcohol in January and for us
it's actually quite challenging I'm at
I'm gonna do a whole video on habits and
how I was able to use the concepts from
the book called power of habit
to pretty much you know stop drinking
cold turkey not really struggle with it
at all it's very interesting now you may
be thinking oh that's not very hard duck
now it is for me the thing is I love
beer most of my friends I met through my
homebrew club or breweries around here
and the thing is I homebrew beer
I've been brewing beer for about a
decade I'm a beer judge I'm a nationally
ranked beer judge and I'm really into
beer right so I have a kegerator there's
six taps on there we drink beer probably
one or two beers every single day for
the last two years or so I've done a dry
month before my wife and I have both
worked on a dry month before and it's
been it's been a while so we basically
have had a drink every day for quite a
stretch today is the 30th we just got a
day or two left and funny enough my home
brew club meeting is on the 1st of
February so we'll be able to go hang out
with them share the fact that I'd drink
for a month so no major reason to do it
other than it's good to take a break
every once in a while let your body you
know recuperate if you will and on the
health track um I got a Fitbit for
Christmas so I think it's the the charge
to I think it's what it's called so just
a so it's just that your standard Fitbit
nothing too fancy and a couple of the
awesome features on the fitbit are the
sleep tracker which is super interesting
looks like I probably need to get a
little more sleep on a regular basis the
other part is the heart rate monitor
that's on here so I was under the
impression that it wasn't so accurate
but actually pretty accurate from what I
could tell and at least from a relative
sense it gives you a good idea of your
resting heart
rate particularly if you keep if you
wear them overnight to get that sleep
monitoring it'll also get your resting
heart rate so there's some other cool
stuff in the app which is on the phone
of course
anyway the fib that's super cool I like
it way more than I thought I was going
to so it's cool that I got it as a gift
I probably wouldn't have purchased it on
my own let me know and anybody else have
a Fitbit perhaps we can you know connect
on Fitbit and this one of the other cool
things you could challenge people in
your network and you can you know go for
the most number of steps or you could
there's like virtual hikes and stuff
like that so it's kind of cool and yeah
let me know in the comments if you do
have a Fitbit and you you're like
actively using it could be cool to have
like a niche site project challenge
group or something like that alright
finally what YouTube channels am i
watching right I have a couple different
themes that I kind of look at so one
area is like YouTube creative I'm very
interested in learning more about
growing on YouTube and geek out on the
camera gear and all this kind of details
like that so I'm watching a lot of those
kind of channels so a couple of those
are roberto blake and video influencers
so video influencers is uh it's sean
candle and benji i hopefully I'm not
mixing up the channel I know Sean has
like multiple channels that he's working
on but basically lots of good
information on those two channels and
then derek halpern somebody I followed
for years actually when I first started
blogging he was one of the first people
I started following so I actually have
taken a couple of his courses and he's
sort of a mentor from afar Derek
definitely has his you know New York
personality shining through so that's
pretty pretty interesting I'll put links
to all these channels by the way one of
the other channels that I'm surprised
that I ended up you know enjoying so
much it's called refusing to settle so
guy named Clark he's been you know
blowing up over the last
year and a half or so but he's had his
YouTube channel out for a while he's a
you know solo entrepreneur from what I
could gather it seems like he he's
running things on his own he has a ton
of stuff on journaling and I think you
know going back to what I was talking
about before with you know the stoic
journal and then the bullet journal I
think I saw some of his journaling
videos and he has like an interesting
thing going on
he sort of inspired me to you know look
a little bit deeper at my own content I
noticed that you know he had a couple
videos that were doing well and then he
would do like a bunch of other videos
around the same topic you know when you
start looking at other people's channels
you will notice that most of the time
when they have an area that's going
really well they do more of it seems
obvious when I say it out loud but you
know when you look at refusing to settle
in that channels growth it's pretty
amazing
he has great content across the board
and a couple others so there's another
set of like content that I watch and
it's around like digital nomads stuff
and just like watching what other
youtubers are doing so a couple of my
friends one is Zoey Arielle and then the
other is Mackenzie fly so they both been
interviewed on the channel place links
in the description but I've watched
their videos pretty often as well so
check them out if you're interested it's
a different take it's not a marketing
related they talk about you know digital
Nomad stuff and some minimalism and just
whatever else and for me it's
interesting to you know be the minority
like demographic so from what I gather
right I'm just guessing but their
audiences mostly females so it's
definitely interesting to see you know
what other channels are doing that are
like way outside what I would normally
watch normally I was checking out like
entrepreneurship stuff marketing related
and that sort of thing so to go outside
and see what other like areas of the
YouTube like ecosystem are doing
very interesting and that wraps up the
January favorites so let me know if you
enjoy this sort of format or if you have
suggestions if you're interested in like
a shorter form video where I don't
ramble as much let me know that or if
you like listening to me ramble on
struggle to find my words and stuff like
that let me know in the comments below
if it happens to be your first time on
the channel take a look at some of the
other videos I talked a lot about the
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consider subscribing I'm definitely
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