I hope you've done what I've asked for so far which is to record yourself speaking or lecturing about your subject matter for just two or three minutes and you graded yourself. So you should have a stack of things you like which I hope is this big and a stack of things you don't like I hoping it's only that big, but it may be that big. That's okay. Now here is the absolute single most important thing I'm going to teach you in this entire course if you do this, you're going to go well on you'll be well on your way to being an online teacher and will probably be a good one and a successful if you don't do this one step is an excellent chance. You never launch your first course. So please, please listen carefully.

I'm gonna give a lot of different advice in this course and you can ignore a lot of it even most of it but this is the one thing I beg you do not ignore the video you just did. You looked at it. I hope you made the list. Things you like don't like I need you to do it again. And I need you to very consciously focus on just improving one thing, try to get that one thing that you don't like the most in that stack of not likes, reduce it, try to do more of the stuff you do, like, review it again and see if you made progress. If you really focused on just one thing.

Chances are you solve that problem. Now, I don't mean you don't like the fact that your hair doesn't look great, and you're hoping it looks better the next time. What I'm talking about are things like if you smoke too quickly, you realize you sound nervous, you don't want to speak so quickly, slowing it down. If you speak so softly, you seem timid or scared, and that you should be the student in the back of the room and not the instructor in the front. then focus on increasing the volume. I want you to focus on things that are changeable and do it again and here's the thing I want you to keep recording it, keep critiquing it.

Again and again and again until you are happy with it. You've got to get to the point where you can watch a video of yourself and say, Wow, I can be half as good as he is or she is. I'll be the star of this online university. That person is so good, I would take that person's class, I would want to listen to that person. If it weren't me. That's what I need you to do.

Now, that doesn't happen. For most people in one take or even two takes. Take as many as you want. It really doesn't take that long, especially when you're only doing a two minute clip. And you can do this 30 times and review it 30 times in an hour. So I'm not asking you to devote your life in the next six months to this.

Certainly a lot of you probably spent more time than that, researching what camera to use for your course and believe me, your cameras the least important part part of this process, how you come across making sure you're completely comfortable and confident. That is important. It's important to you, so that you actually have the will to start this course finish it posted and promoted and feel good about it. It's also important to your students to see that you're comfortable, confident and relaxed. Now when you're judging yourself, judge yourself on your own standard Don't try to be Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton or ronald reagan or me or anyone else be you be the best you you are, but be a you. That's interesting.

Not somebody who is a droning monotone data dump. That's not a good teacher by anyone's standards. So I want you to come across the best you can come across and then you'll have a system for anytime you're in front of a camera. No one else gets easier every time and it becomes impossible. To be nervous right now I'm gonna take. I'm really relaxed talking to you.

It's not because I think there's no possible way anyone could ever be a better online trainer. That's not why I'm relaxed and relaxed because I know I can't do any better than this. This is the best I look. This is the best. I said, this is how I want to come across. When I'm on video.

How do I know that? I've watched myself on video countless time. So that's your homework right now. Don't skip this if you're just sitting back watching these videos, you're frankly wasting your time you should go watch videos on fantasy football or ice skating or you should just go to the mall. This course is going to do you want to get it's only going to do good if you practice on video repeatedly until you like what you see. So please do that.

Now.