Hey guys,

This is just me having a bit of fun and getting some more practice in front of the camera, I’m trying to be myself on this video without letting my nerves get in the way. I’m definitely getting more confident in front of the camera. I actually managed to smile on this video

What I took from watching this video back was, that I need to either stop myself moving around so much, or do my videos sitting down. I tend to feel better doing them standing up, but if I can’t stop moving about then I’ll have to do them sitting down and get used to it.

Another thing I’m learning to do, is not worry too much about what people are going to think of me, that was the biggest thing I had to get over before doing my first video. I’m definitely seeing improvements on each video I’ve done so far, athough I’ve still got a long way to go before I’m ready to appear in my first Hollywood movie.

Anyway I had fun making it, editing it and it makes me laugh when watching it back. So all in all I’m pretty happy with it. You’ll see what I mean when I say I had some fun editing it when you watch it.

I was planning to make another for the competition entry, but I’ve had a headache all day that won’t shift. So that’s that.

Anyway if you could leave me a quick comment that would be cool.

I’m off to watch a DVD now called, Takedown. Quite an old movie, it’s supposed to be the squeal to Hackers So hopefully it will be good?

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I’ll be back with another post soon, I’ve found a good free tool for creating graphics.

Paul.

Here is the video that I said I would produce in the last post. I finally go to grips with Camtasia Studio, and you know what? It’s really easy to use, after watching the great tutorial videos that camtasia provide for you that is.

So this video basically shows you how to easily search for, and install WordPress plugins from within your WordPress admin control panel. This saves you a lot of fuss and messing about with uploading it to your server with an FTP client (FTP software). I only recently discovered I could install them directly from within the control panel, I had been using FTP to upload each plugin. So as you can imagine that ws a huge waste of my time, so just in case any of you didn’t know about this, I thought I’d make this video to make you aware of this feature.

I hope you enjoyed the video, please let me know what you think as it was my first attempt at this sort of thing.

Until next time…

Paul.

Well after much stress &and many takes I finally managed to record my very first video. I decided I might as well make this a welcome video for my blog, so you will now see this video in my sidebar over to the right.

As you will probably be bale to tell while watching it, I was very nervous. I’ve never EVER recorded a video of myself, in all my life, so this was a pretty big deal for me. I’m really glad that I decided to take action and just get it done though, I actually kind of held myself accountable in a comment on fellow student, David Walker’s blog, although I didn’t fully commit & say I’d definitely get one done. But that comment made me feel that, because I’d said that I would practice & try to produce something, I felt that I MUST get a video uploaded today, even if it gave me a headache in the doing. (which it did)

The main thing is I’ve done my first video, and took myself WAY out of my comfort zone, which is a massive achievement for me, as I actually have an anxiety disorder which I’ve let stop me from doing things in the past. I don’t know what is, but joining the Alex Jeffreys Coaching program has really done something for my well being, I honestly haven’t felt so good about myself in years. Even my friends and family have noticed the change in me, and have commented a few times as to how much more confident and upbeat I seem.

We are just about halfway through the coaching now, although their will be many bonuses after that. We also have access to the private members forum for life, which the value of is just priceless if you ask me. Great things are happening now, and there are more great things to come for everyone involved in this coaching.

Now this doesn’t mean that if you weren’t able to get on the coaching, that you need to get left behind, as I said in the video I’ll be sharing a lot of what I learn right here on this blog. And the bits that aren’t shared here will be shared in free reports, so there’s no need for anyone to get left behind. If you have any questions at all, just leave a comment in one of my posts on this blog, and I’ll do my best to help you.

I want to help as many people as I can acheive what I’m achieving now, okay I’m not making any money right now, but I’m moving in a forward direction, little by little. I’m doing this all at my own pace, and my main focus is building my list. And list building is where your focus should be too.

So my message is this, don’t hold back, don’t let your fears get in the way. Take action on something like I’ve today with my first video, and prepare to be amazed at yourself.

Paul.

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I’d love to hear what you think, good or bad. So please leave your comments below… Thanks

EDIT: 6th August 2009

When I got up this morning I decided that I wanted to have a try at improving on the first video, so here’s the result of that.

It actually didn’t take many takes this time, as I already knew what I wanted to say. I think this is a slight improvement on the first video, apart from the part where I had to cough..

What I will say as words of encouragement for those yet to get their video up, it does get easier with each video you make. I think I just need to work on sounding more natural in the way I speak now.