First Month of Streaming - (Streaming Update - 1)

I started streaming again October 25th, 2023, but this time I had a plan and an goal to get out of it. It was the day after my 25th birthday and I decided that I needed to start doing something productive with my free time. Up until that point, most of my time was spent sleeping and playing videogames, not much else was getting done. I told myself that SOMETHING needed to change, cuz if I kept doing the same thing all my other skills would start to dwindle as they were not getting used ever. So I started streaming again to help make me feel at least a little more productive when playing videogames, as well as all of the extra content that could come from it would help keep my other skills (design, marketing, etc.) would be an asset to help those.

Over the last month, I have not really done much of that latter and really have only played videogames. It has been 2 hour stream in the mornings from 10:00-12:00 ish and then going to work immediately after Monday-Friday. Once I get home from work, I made myself food and went right to sleep, woke up the next morning, and repeated. On the weekends I typically wasn't working, (not the case coming up to Christmas) but I would take the weekends off and do absolutely nothing or spend time with family as sort of a reset for the next week. That led itself to a couple of hours in the morning as being the only time to do extra stuff that I wanted to do (make clips/videos/websites/updates to stream, and SO much more). That being said, starting this week, ACTUALLY TODAY, I will only be streaming Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and any other extra added streams as a bonus. Still going to be happening at the same time 10-12 or 9-11, depending on what time I have to go to work that day.  

Looking towards the future, on this day off in the middle of the week, it will give me more time to work on those aforementioned things that I want to work on. Instead of having a combined 5 hours throughout the week, I will have nearly double that on JUST Wednesday. I feel that is going to help give me not only the time, but the motivation to keep it all going. I have so many plans, and things that I want to do, just not the time. I just don't have the time because I don't work a desk job during the day where I can edit and create stuff while working, so that leaves me very minimal time to do everything else. Some of the things that I have already started working on today: a calendar of posting content on other platforms, a website outline (so these blogs can get posted in other locations), and so much more.

I have the drive and the passion to do these because I want to. I do not care about the viewer count, if this literally takes me nowhere, it doesn't make me any money, I don't care. I am not looking for anyone to subscribe, donate, or give me ANY money. Y'all deserve the money that you work hard for. I just want something that can keep me busy and so I can prove to myself that I can focus on something outside of work related things. I very much enjoy seeing people stop by and say hi. Yannis told me about a way to only have the pre-roll ads and no mid-roll ads, so I did just that. I want to make it enjoyable for you as much as possible, while still having fun myself.

The future is looking bright, and I plan to keep on going. I have so many plans to incorporate into the streams, this past month was just the beginning. Now with Wednesdays off I can focus more or getting extra stuff done. I am so excited, next Wednesday I have off from work too so I am going to be so productive. Some things to look forward to besides posting on other platforms: design work on stream (MDC you'll have to wait to see what this means), my own ads (if I don't have twitch ads, I need some of my own to get people to check out my other stuff), Affiliate Anniversary (Happening December 15th (I think), and SO SO SO much more!

Hope you stick around for the ride. Thanks for reading!

-Makmans98 (Keith)