Motivation vs. Discipline: The Truth About Consistency

Discipline, not motivation, is the true key to maintaining creative consistency and building long-term success as a content creator. After two years of weekly podcasting without missing an episode, I've discovered that commitment and systems matter more than feelings or inspiration.

• Motivation is helpful to get started but discipline is what keeps you going
• Write down content ideas immediately or you'll lose them forever
• Speed from idea to execution is crucial - don't overthink
• Building a creator community for accountability and support
• When brands ask to use your content, don't be afraid to charge them
• Your creative work has value - know your worth and ask for payment

Transcript

Welcome to Uploaded and Unfiltered

Speaker 1 0:06

Welcome . Welcome back to another episode of Uploaded and Unfiltered , a podcast in which I , your host , jermaine , interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far . I've said that at least 108 times and I feel like I need to change it . We'll see . But as you can guess I saw by the album art , today is a solo episode . It is August 4th , the day before this podcast goes up , and I ain't really got nothing to talk about . I mean , granted , I have a million things that I could talk about , but I'm not really feeling like talking about anything today , except for the streak that we're on Now .

Motivation vs. Discipline for Consistency

Speaker 1 0:47

I've seen a lot of posts and I believe a lot of people think that you need to have motivation to do such a feat , to be on such a streak , to be steadily consistent the way I've been , and I'm here to tell you that that is a bunch of bullshit . Motivation is something I think we look at motivation incorrectly . Motivation is cool and great and you get that motivation when you watch somebody's random TikTok video and you're like man , I'm inspired to do something . Motivation is a good jumpstart to getting to where you want to go , but motivation is not what's going to carry you there . I'd argue that being disciplined is more important than being motivated to do something . And let me explain Now . I would say that I'm disciplined to keep up with my streak on this podcast . A because it's super dope to say that I've been doing this for two years plus straight and I haven't missed a week . It also shows that , hey , anything is possible . Like I literally can't think of a reason why I wouldn't post a podcast unless all my computers were on fire

Capturing Content Ideas Immediately

Speaker 1 1:54

and my phone was on fire and I had no access to the Internet for like two weeks . Then maybe , and even then , I'm going to get to a point where I'll be uploading these in batches and have them scheduled out for months on end . So even then , I don't know , we'll see but because I'm committed and dedicated to keeping that streak going , nothing's going to stop me . Motivation is cool . When you first start a project , you're motivated to begin , you're motivated to get the ball rolling . But again , I would argue that motivation is not what's going to keep you going for the long run . But yeah , outside of that , everything has been going smoothly today . Actually , on TikTok I posted a total of 12 pieces of content . I'm not bragging , I'm just letting you know that it's possible when you stop caring so much about how you show up on TikTok .

Speaker 1 2:48

For a while there I was super not worried , but concerned with making sure that all my content that I put up on my kryptonite page was of a certain quality , a certain length , a certain subject matter . But for the last few weeks , if I think of an idea , I just pull out the phone or pull out the pocket three and start shooting and get that piece of content recorded . The faster that I can go from idea to shooting to uploading , the better it's going to be for me in the long run . Because there are so many ideas and I'll get on this in a second so many ideas I have let go to time because I didn't write them down , because I didn't act on it fast enough or I talked myself out of it . Fuck that . If you have an idea and you have the means to do it right then and there I would highly suggest doing it . But if you can't , at the very least write that idea down , write it down , type it in a note somewhere on your phone and make sure that you document it , because I see or I feel like the more I do that , the more likely I am to either do that idea or , when I'm out of ideas and I can't think of anything on the day , I just go to that note page , or I can open up those notes on my notebook and be like , all right , this is something I can work on right now and I get . But for real , but getting an idea , even you , you tell yourself you're like , man , I'm going to remember this . No , you're not . No , you're not . It's rare . Did you remember ideas that you want to do for content creation and actually execute on them months later if you hadn't written it down ? So just do yourself a favor write it down and you're good to go Now

Building a Creator Community Hub

Speaker 1 4:29

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Speaker 1 4:29

My last piece of information or topic that I want to talk about is I am very close to opening up some type of spot where creators can hang out together , bounce ideas off of each other and generally keep each other motivated when it comes to creating content and becoming consistent . Content and becoming consistent . I feel like the more people you have around you who are doing the same things that you're doing , the more likely you are to stick with whatever thing you're trying to keep consistent and if you have a place where you can bounce ideas off of one another , get feedback from people who are doing something that you are doing as well . I see nothing but positives coming from that . Now , I've always been hesitant on creating a community of such nature in the past , because people are weird and I don't like dealing with weird people , so I just avoided it . But , just like this podcast , if I'm the one running it , I think I'd feel better and it would stay to the caliber that I would like it to stay at .

Speaker 1 5:35

So I don't know what this community hub is going to be . I don't know where I'm going to do it . I'm leaning towards Discord because I like Discord , but it's definitely going to be a place where we're not going to have any slackers . We're not going to have any people just hanging out in there . I want to get to a point where we have monthly meetings or weekly meetings about the content we're creating , where we want to take our content . We stay accountable for each other . We have maybe a display sheet or a display board where it says okay , crip wants to make three videos a week and the community would check in and make sure I get that done . It would also be a place where you would drop all your links to whatever new piece of content you have up and you have a community to help you get that ball rolling .

Speaker 1 6:21

As far as getting it in rotation to the algorithm goes , so something I've just been toying with in my head I don't know if I'm going to make it paid , I don't know if I'm going to make it free , I don't know what the signup process is going to look like , but I'm saying it out loud now . This is me writing down the idea because I think it would be valuable in the long run . So eventually I will stop being lazy . I'll stop being negative about it . Actually , right now I'm not being negative about it . If I made such a community , it would be amazing . I just need to figure out what it looks like and how to get it done . I need to put a system in place and make it happen . So let me stop dragging my feet on that and get to work . And before we go , there's one other thing . I don't think I've talked about it on the podcast . I think I did a little bit with crew last week , but I just want to reiterate If somebody is coming to you from a company and you are been posting videos or content on their product and ask you to use your content for social media .

Getting Paid for Your Content

Speaker 1 7:22

Try to get payment . Start with yes , you can . Here is my fee $50 , $20 , $100 , $200 , however much you believe that your content is worth . Figure that out now . And when somebody comes to you and asks you , hey , can I use this on our social media accounts , you can say yes , and here's my fee , and already have that ready to go . Don't be afraid to ask to get paid for the content you're creating . This is one of the reasons why a lot of us are creating content , and if they think that your content is good enough to go up on our socials for free , they can damn for sure pay you Like , simple as that .

Speaker 1 8:00

So the situation I have with Mesmoglobe is they hit me up in my Instagram DMs , which I'm never in there , but that's where they sent me the message . They were like hey , we love your YouTube video , can we use it for social media ? I didn't even think . I didn't even think . I said yeah , sure , because I thought it was going to be like a quick hey , check out this video . I should have got clarification . I should have came up with a list of things that you can and cannot do with my content , but I did not . So this is on me .

Speaker 1 8:29

This is a learning lesson and two things . I could look at this and have it be a negative , because let me tell you , oh my God , go to Mesmo Globes TikTok . I haven't checked out their Instagram in a while , but their TikTok has like 11 videos of me on it which , like I said , I'm telling myself this is dope , that a company sees my content and they think it's good enough to put up and advertise for their product . Love that Next time we're going to get paid for it , though . But again , I'm trying to keep it positive , to look at the neutral and the positive of any situation that happens to me , and this is what I've come up with . If I already knew a company , I already knew that my content was good enough to get paid for it . I already knew that Duh , this is just that . What's the call ? Oh my God . I just blanked out for a second that evidence in real life outside of me that what I'm saying is true . So I'm going to use it as that move forward to the next project or opportunity and be very , be better prepared , and with that , I'm going to leave you to your own devices

Closing Thoughts and Appreciation

Speaker 1 9:36

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Speaker 1 9:36

Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast . Shout out to everybody who's been listening and if you've been listening since number one , hit me up , let me know . There is a link in this podcast that you can send messages to the podcast . I highly suggest doing it . I think it would be fun . For anybody else but me , I think it would be amazing . Go ahead and use that . I think you can leave a voicemail and we'll bring it up on the podcast whenever you do that . Other than that , appreciate y'all for listening . Like I said , keep creating content , keep being amazing . Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something because it's just showing their insecurities , not yours . Other than that , as always , protect your mental , keep creating content and I'll see you in the next one . Peace .