I was just saying the weather is beautiful today and the next thing you know

I walk out and there's dark clouds all over the sky.

Hate when that happens.

I'm more of a sunny sunshine guy

I don't really like rainy days.

Well who does, right?

As you can tell my voice is recovering

It's like probably 80% recovered already.

We might as well just do a test right here

Fa, I would say Fa.

I definitely cracked up on Fa.

A couple of days ago I could only hit Re

So as you can tell it it's a big progress already

And a couple weeks before that, I could only talk beneath my breath

I was like

Which is really bad for the vocal cords, actually

So yeah, my voice is recovering and definitely the cold is gone, still a little bit coughy though, but you know, everything's just good right now

Just need to recover my voice a little bit more.

So I'm not gonna press it too hard on this video

I'm just gonna save my voice a little bit so that I don't get worse, alright?

I hope I get well by the end of this week

Dang

Oh, man. It's starting to rain

Let's find some shelter

I almost slipped

So I just want to say..

Oh wait, light's over there, so let's move

So last week I made this flash card video, which was me explaining my current situation

How I caught a cold

Wasn't able to record videos for two weeks because I lost my voice, etc

It wasn't intended to be a consolation-seeking video

But it turned out to be getting lots of consolations from you guys, a lot of caring, a lot of comments

Thank you guys so much, by the way.

I wasn't asking for a pet on the head, but that's what I get

Lots of pets on my head

I'm really thankful

It's really really heartwarming to know that there's so many people out there behind my back

Just really giving me a lot of support

Thank you guys, and what's great is actually, kind of like good out of a bad is..

During my downtime, I actually got the time to really think about my future plans

Like really think about stuff that mattered to my career

I was spending so much time recording videos

making stuff on the internet

running errands, caring for the small stuff ,the trivial stuff

that I didn't really have time for thinking

Just really putting thought into my business

But during these two weeks, since I didn't have the voice I couldn't record at all

I actually had more time to think

Which was a very very important thing , which was something that I should have been doing a long long time ago

For instance, I've accomplished something that has been pending for six months on my to-do list

It's something I should have done a long long time ago

But I had kept it waiting for a long while

But during these two weeks I got it nailed, I pinned it down

And that was a great feeling knowing that that making some progress in your business

So I'll tell you more about it, but I need my laptop. So let's go

Great! Just when we're about to leave it gets sunny

So I couldn't use my voice for the past two weeks

But that didn't stop me from using my.. my head, my brain

I started doing a lot of brainstorming, a lot of thinking, a lot of researching, coming up with new ideas. new directions for my projects

And one of the things that I finally got off my chest was an update on my PressPlay project

Cuz I've been planning on doing that for quite a while

But I never really started doing it.

The reason why was because..

I was bad at Photoshop, I was bad at Illustrator

I still am bad at it. But I finally got a book

I read through it, and basically learned my way through it.

So I redesigned all the graphics

I rewrote all the descriptions on that page ,and now it's brand new

I love it much better than the previous version

So that's one thing that I checked off my to-do list

And then I started doing research on new videos

I've been going through a lot of channel , either here in Taiwan or in America or in Europe

I've been digging for new topics or new ways to make these new videos

And I gotta say, now I have a pocket list of those

My next video is gonna be about Yale University's most popular class in 300 years

Which is called science and the good life (actually it's Psychology & The Good Life)

That is coming up soon

Do keep your expectations high

or not

Another very important thing that I've been looking into is my YouTube analysis

Now currently we have 261k subscribers

Which is not small anymore. We're not a small Channel anymore

On the other hand, we're not that big yet

We're kind of in the middle category, I would say

We have no problem in growing subscribers on a daily basis. Like we get hundreds of subscribers every day

But the problem is, the issue is the views are not growing proportionally

While the subscribers are going like boom

The views are going like Shh...

I can't make the voice.

They're not growing proportionally, which they should

And it might have something to do with YouTube's algorithm

That's another case

But I wanted to find something that I could change, something that was in my control

And this is what I found

Since the last summer we came out with a video called "How I Learned English"

That video has really boosted our growth

When that video came out we had 30,000 subscribers

Five months later, we hit 150K.

That's a five-time grow in five months

That is amazing. This video currently has 1 million views which basically made our mark

So I took the time to look at the stats within this video, and I cross compared it to the entire channel as a whole

And this is what I found.

For the past three months, JR Lee Radio, this channel grew by 44,000 subscribers

44 thousand subscribers,

which is quite.. kind of OK

On the other hand, this specific video brought in 17,000 subscribers alone in the past three months

Which means for the past 90 days...

nearly 40% of subscribers came from this specific video.

This video is a monster

This video is giving us 40 percent of growth on subscribers.

So on one hand

Wow

We need to think of how we can duplicate that success

But on the other hand, what concerns me is that this video with 1 million views that is gaining so much attention

which is making them mark for us is about learning English

But the entire channel as a whole, its positioning is on positivity, positive energy content

So while lots of people are joining this channel through that specific video

They are actually looking for English learning content, in which I do not provide on a regular basis

And that's what I see to this. The problem is we need to find a way to fill that gap

We need to find a way to find more people who are

interested in both English and positivity stuff

So I'm really excited about this finding

You can either call it a potential threat, or you can call it a potential opportunity

I would like to see it as the latter.

So let's take advantage of this and build on what we have

More brainstorming, more new ideas, more new videos, and more views, more watch time, more subscribers

So that's about it.. Before we go..

My next video is gonna come out a couple days later, and this video.. it was shot before I lost my voice

So you're gonna hear from the me with the full voice, the good healthy voice

And I'm also working on another YouTube channel, which...

I have not made public yet. Actually, it is public. You just can't find it. I doubt if you can find it

It's positioning is even more niche than this current one

But it's something that I've been really wanting to do since I was in college, it's quite personal

It's not meant to be big, but it's just something that I really want to do.

And I will share it with you when it's done,

I've been working on it for more than a year already

It's just.. It's really on slow progress

Really slow progress, but I hope it gets finished soon.

All right, so that's about it. Remember to like share subscribe

And ciao