Hello and welcome to Verbal To Visual. Today I would like to share a personal
follow-up to the last video that I made. In that video I shared some ideas about
how to do some reflecting on the past year and some planning for the year to
come. And as a follow-up to that video I would like to share my own annual review,
take a look back at my 2018 as well as what I'm planning for 2019. And to help
me look back and then look forward I use this three bucket framework, thinking
about contribution - the work that I put out into the world (hopefully to make it
a little bit better), connection - the ways in which I'm building relationships with
other people, and vitality - how I'm taking care of my mental, physical, and emotional
well-being. The idea here is that if you neglect any of these buckets, if you
don't contribute to any one of these, then you're essentially going to be
poking holes in all of them. That neglecting one will have a negative
impact on your life as a whole. So with that as our framework, first I will
respond to the prompt "2018 was the year I..." and we'll follow that up with "2019
will be the year I..." Those are the two prompts that I encourage you to spend
some time considering in your annual review. So let's start with that
contribution bucket in 2018. Here at Verbal To Visual I published 41 new
sketchnoting videos here to this YouTube channel as well as on Facebook. If you
look back on those 41 videos you'll see some differences in style, some
experimentation in the format here, but with each of those videos I've tried to
explore a particular idea related to a sketchnoting, how you might build your
sketchnoting skills or some examples of how you might use your sketchnoting
skills. I hope that you enjoyed those videos because I did enjoy making them.
And if you're interested in checking out the most popular of those videos, check
out the links below to a new post that I created called The Top 10 Sketchnoting
Videos of 2018. In addition to making and sharing
these weekly videos I also created two new online courses. First I
launched a course called Learn a New Language with Sketchnotes, which took a
deep dive into how you might use your visual note-taking skills to help you
learn a foreign language. That was a really fun intersection to explore
because I think the two go really well together. The way that sketchnoting
activates the visual parts of your brain and the verbal parts of your brain
simultaneously makes for a pretty powerful language learning tool. And from
there I created and launched a second resource, this one called Build an Online
Course with Sketchnotes. Throughout the entire process of creating the language
learning course I was having weekly conversations with three internet
friends of mine who were also building online courses and using sketchnotes to
help with the development and delivery of their course. Those webinar workshops
resulted in stage one of that resource - Build an Online Course with Sketchnotes -
and I'm now in the process of finishing stage two, creating more polished video
lessons and resources for any of you who might be interested in building your own
online course using sketchnotes as a primary tool. With that trio there I feel
pretty good about my contribution bucket in 2018. I spent quite a bit of time and
energy filling that bucket this past year. But that bucket has never really
been a problem for me. It tends to be the other two that I occasionally neglect, so
let's take a look at how those went, starting with connection. The biggest
news from this past year is that I got engaged. Later this year I will be
marrying a wonderful woman named Shelby and I couldn't be more excited about
that. This past year I also added a new piece to my weekly routine. I established
a weekly co-working session with my good friend Austin, who has been a regular
collaborator here at Verbal To Visual. We meet up at a coffee shop each week, chat
about the creative projects that we're each working on, and spend a good chunk
of time each of us plugging away on our own
individual project. Those weekly co-working sessions have been a great
opportunity to not only refill my creative energy tank,
thanks to that in-person connection, but it's also been a great time to get some
solid work done at the end of the week and it gives me a good amount of
momentum moving into the next week. This past year I was also more intentional
about putting energy into family and friendships. Sometimes it's hard for me
to actively reach out to others and foster those family relationships and
friendships, but I think this past year I got a little bit better at doing that,
and I hope to keep that trend going in this next year. Because of those three
pieces, I feel like I've also done a decent job of filling the connection
bucket in 2018. Let's turn to that third and final bucket of vitality. As a
follow-up to a previous year's theme of mindfulness, in 2018 I re-established a daily
meditation practice. I've got a dedicated space in my home where I do that
meditation and a time that I set aside as well - 9:00 a.m. - after I've had the
chance to wake up, get some breakfast, have some coffee, and do a little bit of
work. Following up that morning work session with a 20-minute meditation has
been really helpful in fostering mindfulness throughout the rest of the
day. And since most of the challenges related to doing creative work are
mental and emotional, for me I found it to be very impactful to strengthen that
mindfulness muscle. I also stopped drinking (entirely) in the middle of this
past year. After going through a handful of cycles of fairly heavy drinking
followed with light drinking then heavy drinking then light drinking over the
past three or four years, I realized it was time for me to just cut that out of
my life completely. And though that has been at times challenging, especially in
a place like Portland, Oregon with a strong craft beer culture, the cutting
out of alcohol has had a very positive effect on my daily mood and
energy levels. I also tweaked my exercise routine this past year. I've now got a
three-day cycle that I really enjoy. I'll go for a run one day, do some yoga the
next (sometimes at a local studio, sometimes using YouTube - shoutout to
Yoga with Adriene), and on the next day I'll do some simple strengthening with
push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups. The day after that I will get the cycle going
again with a run. What surprised me about this three-day cycle is how good my runs
feel. As a cross country and track runner in college, it was easy for me to feel
like I should run every day (or at least every other day), but now that I'm in my
early 30s it seems to be the case that a couple days of rest from running, with
some other lighter exercise, is the perfect recovery time that helps me feel
strong and refreshed the next time I make it out. And with those as the
primary ways I'm addressing my physical, emotional, and mental health, I'm feeling
pretty good about how I filled that vitality bucket this past year. And
what's exciting for me as I look back at 2018 from a more holistic perspective is
that this is the first time that I've ever done a good job of filling all
three of these buckets. It has taken about five years of doing these annual
reviews and using this three-bucket framework to get to this point, and
there's no guarantee that those three buckets will stay filled going into the
future. It's on me to continue putting time and energy into each of those
buckets, and that's what I plan to do in 2019. When it comes to connection and
vitality, my goal is simply to maintain the good habits that I established in
2018. So here I'd like to focus on what I plan to add to the contribution bucket.
First, I will continue making (and hopefully improving) these weekly videos.
I very much enjoy creating these as part of my weekly work routine. I like digging
into a new sketchnoting topic each week. And for now at least I'm
enjoying the style that I've landed on here, a little bit
more of a stripped-down approach: just a single frame, using only a black marker,
and improvising this narration rather than scripting it. And as I think about
the videos that I'd like to make in the year to come, I see two primary
categories, the first being "How to..." videos in which I will teach a specific
sketchnoting skill. Things like "How to Sketchnote a Book" or "How to Build Your
Drawing Skills." There are plenty of individual sketchnoting skills worth
digging into, as well as specific applications to explore. So I'm excited
to continue making those how-to videos and I hope you continue to find them
valuable. The second category is more "Sketchnotes of..." and with that category
I'm using sketchnoting to highlight an impactful idea or set of ideas. An
example of that type of video is the visual summary of the book Essentialism
that I published late last year. I really enjoy those videos as a way to explore
in depth the ideas that I'm coming across in the books I'm reading and the
podcasts I'm listening to. And my hope is that you find those ideas interesting
and applicable in your life, but even when that's not the case, they'll still
be demonstrating specific sketchnoting techniques that you might be able to
steal and use in your sketchnotes. Another thing that I'll be doing this
year to fill that contribution bucket is improving the resources that I've
already made. For the first time in many years I'm not planning to build a new
course this year. Instead, I want to revisit all of the courses that I've
already made and look for ways to make them better. Right now I feel really good
about the library of courses that we have in place here at Verbal To Visual,
and I think it's a good time to look back and do some maintenance work. That
might not be as exciting as creating something new, but that hopefully makes
those courses more impactful, more helpful in the lives of the people who
decide to pick them up. Though I won't be building a new course this year, I am
still starting something new. This year (and in fact next week) I'm launching a
new podcast. I've gotten in the habit of keeping a daily business log.
At the end of each workday I quickly jot down the things that I worked on, the
ideas that I came across, and any insights that might have cropped up. At
the end of the week I've been looking back at those daily business log entries
and doing a bit of reflecting. And it's within this new weekly podcast that I
will be sharing those reflections on what it's looking like for me to build a
sustainable creative career. So this podcast will not exist under the
umbrella of Verbal To Visual because it's not specifically about sketchnoting.
Instead, it's for people who are also in the process of building their own
creative career. If that sounds interesting to you, then stay tuned
because next week's video here on Verbal To Visual is going to be all about that
podcast. I've already recorded the first few episodes and I can't wait to share
them with you. So those are some of the highlights of my 2018 and some of my
plans for 2019. If you have not already done so, I encourage you to do this
reflecting and planning for yourself because I think it will help you to be
more intentional about how you spend your time every single day. And I hope
that seeing these concrete examples from my life have been a helpful case study. I
wish you the best of luck with whatever goals you set for yourself in 2019, and
I'll be here each week sharing some new ideas about sketchnoting and about
building a sustainable creative career, if those happen to be relevant to your
goals. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you again next time.
Till then.
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