You should start again.
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- I turned 34 last Friday.
And with each passing year, I find it doesn't matter how much you've missed, how long it's been, or who you think is watching. You have to give yourself permission to begin again, and again at whatever you deem worthy of your time, your life, your pursuit.
Here's to starting again.
100 short films. 100 questions. 100 letters.
Video: 0/100
Follow along here:
Newsletter - www.lettersfro...
IG: / nnekaj
"Never give up on something you cannot go a day without thinking about." -Winston Churchill
i love this. thank you for sharing 🤎
Much as I hate Winston Churchill for the nasty things he did to India...when the man's right, he's right.
Wow. Profound
what if that something gives up on you
that quote literally changed ma life :)
This one of those cinematic videos you watch and you’re like Wtf.
I’m genuinely inspired. The story telling, color grading everything is just amazing.
means the world! wow. thank you so much 🙏🏽💛
Took the words well outta my mouth :)
J2, 100%😊
Dunno who will see this. Doesn’t matter: I spent a decade working a corporate job hoping to climb the ladder and land a spot where I was fat and happy. But I’m unhappier than ever. I helped someone build their dream and postponed my own. On the day of my 10th anniversary I received a card from the company. No one had signed it except for my recently departed boss with the message “Best of luck”.
Money is just money. Follow your ideas and dreams.
David, thank you for this. I don't think enough people openly and honestly express their feelings about THIS. Thank you.
@@nnekajthank you. Felt good to get it off my chest if I’m honest.
I wish my dad knew this, he wanted me to do art as a hobby or a side thing and do enegenering which I hate
He said how masculine jobs are more valuable than feminine jobs and idk what the hell he is talking about
I wanna be happy than just do it for money like my purpose is doing it for money
I'll burn out
@@infiniteX3 what
how is art feminine and engineering masculine?
@@infiniteX3 you should follow your dream of becoming an artist
You answered a question that I think about all the time. “Why do I keep thinking about this project?” Because you care about it.
I needed that. Thank you.
A question I have to answer for myself all the time! Thank you for watching 🙏
Same.
@@nnekaj Yw!
I got an entire feature length film sitting on a hard drive, in a lock box that I use as decoration for my room, that I glance at every day...
I wanna see it
Let it out!!
Oh we NEED to see this! Let it fly, my friend.
lmao i love that its in a lockbox 🤣 the staring contest between the two of you
I wanna watch too
She has started again and we are here for it, starting with you. 🦋
I appreciate you ALWAYS, Amber 🥹❤we got thissss!
yep I'm in 🥂💫
i think everyone needs to watch this. this is what the people of today need to watch. we’re all stuck in a limbo, wanting to start over tomorrow. but it never comes.
thank you for these words, Isabella! Nothing moves unless we do. I'm always learning this.
1:09
"We try to drown ourselves in monotony and busy work as if distraction will lead to amnesia, and not dissatisfaction, resentment, regret."
This line goes hard
No other creator has inspired my own creativity more than you! Ever since I discovered your instagram I have been enamored by your art. Love that you're in TH-cam and love this entire challenge!
agreed!!!!
Same!!
Nasiha! These words made my entire yearrrr. So thankful to find you here 🥰
@@pjjones4444 thank you PJ! 💕
@@Omi_nus thank you my dear! ❤
Your voice so soooooooo important. Like I already know these things, but when you say them the way you say them how you say them…wakes me the fork 🍴 up, asking me to finish my breakfast.
ahhhh! man. thank YOU. seriously. holding this sentiment close. thank you so much for watching🙏🏽
You had me at the thumbnail! But you also HAD me in the first 5 seconds! Amazing work!
Never have I been so invested in a TH-cam video… cinematic masterpiece
this means the world 🫶🏽 thank you so much for watching!
As a creative who keeps procrastinating, I needed you. Thank you for Starting🙏🏽
Thank you for this, Nneka. These poems aren't going to write themselves and my camera won't shoot on its own. Thank you for your openness. See you in video 001!!
Shewww! "These poems aren't going to write themselves and my camera won't shoot on its own." WE got this, Yan. One step at a time :)
I need to come back to this video multiple times. I feel like it’s a good reminder that I’m not alone in my struggles of putting pin to paper. It’s tough to just do it. It’s overwhelming to see others pass you by in their creative endeavors, but there is hope and community out there. I thank you for sharing your side of this.
Yes! I've never hit a notification bell so fast. ❤ Thank you for creating this!
thank you for being here! wow ❤
This video has come into my life at the perfect time. I've recently started my TH-cam channel after over 3 years of wanting to but being too afraid to start. I have a chronic illness so it can be a struggle to keep up with projects, but I'm so happy to finally be doing it even if it takes me a while to upload a new video. This inspired me to work on editing a video that I've filmed and have been wanting to upload! I'm really looking forward to following you on your journey and sending you many kind wishes for this project! 😊
The alignment of this message with me today is mind blowing..... THANK YOU AND HERE ARE YOUR VIRTUAL FLOWERS 🌹🌹🌹❤💯🤞🏾!!!!!
I found out something recently, in the cortex there is a specific part dedicated to will power and it has some fancy name that I can’t remember at the moment. Basically, the way it works is that the more you force yourself and will through the things you put off or find challenging or don’t like doing, the more it will grow and the easier it will get into doing those things you don’t want to do or are a struggle to do. But when you continue to put things off, don’t do the challenges, don’t do those things you don’t want to do, it will decrease and your will power will become weaker and weaker the more you just don’t will yourself into things. Just something to keep in mind when doing this is that you are actually bettering yourself just by doing this.
Feel free to send me a letter! I’d like to feel obligated to send you a letter in return.
I was definitely meant to see this today because I also turned 34 last Friday! Thank you 🌷
happy belated birthday, friend! we got this. one day, one step at a time 🤎
I am so excited that I found your channel. I love the vibes. You are throwing out!!
I love seeing the comments of so many others who have THAT project (out of many) that they can never stop caring ahout. Thank you queen!! Excited to see your project unfold
I don't need motivation or permission, just a pathway to walk into and keeping walking. Thank you.
Aww ! That was adorable and very relatable. Thank you for being encouraging and eloquent at the same time. I have watched both your videos and the hard work you put in making them shows. But more than the videos , I like the words you use - they carry far more meaning and are cherished by me. Yayee!
I am 32 year old single woman. I have been procrastinating on a creative project for 3-4 years now.
It feels like you are offering support by holding my hand whilst I take the first step of courage towards my goal. ❤
This speaks to my soul and where I'm at right now (and where I find myself year after year). I have found that life/creativity is a process of starting over...again and again and again.
I'm so glad you can relate, Mack! I was reading an old journal yesterday and literally thought to myself, "this is almost the exact same thing I'm grappling with now but just a different project, person, choice." It seems like life is a series of mountains beyond mountains, a constant process of one step at a time. Again and again and agan.
Indeed!! 🦋
i never been more genuinely inspired from a youtube video.
I’m awake! And seeing those beautiful match cuts. 😍 Message and visuals received, Nneka. ❤
You know it made my heart sing that you noticed the match cuts, Samantha! 🥰
You’re so inspiring… I been procrastinating on just making an effort using my camera to create for myself.. I’m so obsessed with trying to make money while being creative that I feel overwhelmed to just create to just.. create. Thank you for this video. I look forward to seeing more from you.
Man! THIS. It's a constant struggle trying to create just to create without thinking about how to monetize. Product vs process. We all deserve more time in the making of things that we truly believe in. Thank you for watching, Stedmen!
This cinematography is like nothing I've ever seen! Incredible👌🏾
I am procrastinating on the same project during 4 years ! everybody i have to do it to actually have my degree but in some point I am afraid of being a civil engineer because i want to have many skills ad competences before. but what i realise is we are not perfect, we are all stillleraning and what i have to do is doing what it has to be done and let God decide if i am worth to be an engineer ! maybe one day i will come back and say it was worth it !
Thank you for this. I needed to hear these words today. I make so many creative projects but they are always for someone else. Or to pay the bills or to solve someone else's problem and yet the things I dream of doing myself always sit by the sidelines hoping for that "Someday" when my position on the Maslow's hierarchy of needs is finally above the level of "Safety and Security" enough that I can actually spend time on it and not feel immensely guilty for neglecting something or someone I love. I forget sometimes that the person I am neglecting is myself.
GOD BLESS this WOMAN this CHANNEL & HER LIFE
🥹❤️❤️❤️
Ngl I can keep coming back to this video over and over. Best 5 mins spent tho love your work 🔥
highest compliment 😭🫶🏽 thank you!
If I tell you that I have a project in the drawer that I really want to accomplish, you won't believe how much your video has inspired and encouraged me. This project is called A Music Memoir, and it's about stories written from songs that I love and that have been part of my life in a profound way. This project came about when I realized how serious my grandfather's Alzheimer's diagnosis was, and after I watched a TH-camr I really like share a musical diary of his life's memories, just after his own family had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I'm insecure and scared, but I'm going to write it down and record it for more people to see. You are light. Keep producing and I'll keep watching you. Xo.
The words I didn’t know I needed to hear. I’ve been putting off so much. And tbh, it’s a reflection of what the past year has been for me-putting myself last. Time to get back to things. Thank you for sharing this!
You describe this feeling in such a beautiful way, thank you
thank you so much for watching, Sophia! 🤎
This made me so happy. How refreshing.
thank you so much for watch 😩❤️
AHHHH i love your vibe , the youtube video alone was so inspiring ! im a mom of 3 and im 28 . im so artistically creative but i just cant pick something to truly go all in for . started a youtube channel with my kids learned editing and everything (the ducks world). I just got so overwhelmed tho because i was doing it all by myself and i didnt have anyone to speak life into me . I know alot of ppl can motivate themselves but i find it so hard . Seeing and talking to ppl like you that are very talented and disciplined give me the inspiration to go for it ! YOU ARE AMAZING . I pray i have a friend like you one day !
You are so talented, don't question, just do. Perfection isn't possible, shoot for 50%, pick it apart and shoot for 70% but never perfect. It will never live up to our standards if we wait for perfect. You are beautiful and creative, just believe.
needed THIS. thank you, friend ❤
@@nnekaj ❤️ Even though each of us seem worlds apart, we are each struggling in silence under the same conditions ❤️
The message... filmography... and you.. all transcend beauty. Thank you.
i hate this video...... because it ends!! i wanted it to go on for another 90 minutes. thanks for sharing, thanks for making me feel not alone. i'm excited to see ur creative world
Beautiful person.
Beautiful Spirit.
Beautiful Message.
Thank you✨
thank you friend 🥹❤️
"Why it keeps bubbling up is because you actually care about that shit" was so unexpectedly poignant, played it back 3 times. Lately I have been creatively procrastinating on a lot of things honestly. I haven't been in a musical in 3 years, haven't done an audition in 2 years and the last thing I wrote was 2 lines of a poem back in October 2023. I miss creating, I miss performing, I miss working with other artists. I guess I've been procrastinating on starting over again. I have had so many strong ideas, and little to no desire to execute them. Depression is a beast, but maybe one day I can tame it so I can spend my days visiting it & tending to it rather than fighting it. Subscribing to your channel, I hope you meet all of the goals you set for yourself and I'd love to witness it.
LIKE! LIKE! LIKE!!
Did you start yet? This video got me off my ass to start again.
@@Pawndaunt yep, it sure did! I started writing again. I've been journaling and I started writing an autobiography. It's not the project that I expected to start, but it feels good. I like to think that it matters that it feels good. I also started voice training again! And singing in front of people again! I can feel myself getting yoinked from the depression pit that I've been in for months. It's nice to feel the sunshine of life on my face again. It also helps that I just finished an accelerated Statistics summer class with a B (my 2nd time taking the class, the first time was back in 2015 and I dropped out). I've started wearing makeup again. Wearing my hair down again. I'm not completely out of the dark yet, but I can feel my soul again.
i turn 34 tomorrow! I feel like a bunch of us 34 year old ladies are feeling this way, 34 feels close to 40 in my head so its definitely a wake up call and also realizing how long I pressed snooze for on things. Since 2024 I've started writing poetry and working on my memoir with movie adaptation ideas. Been procrastinating past 2 years on starting my own TH-cam channel
I'm currently doing a 100 day posting challenge on Instagram/TikTok as a form of self love and giving life to my decade+ worth of ideas. Coming across this is divine inspiration. It really shows that when you step into your light you give others permission to step into theirs. I'm tuned into your journey
Have some videos I simply left alone. This reminded me that I should get back to it. Back to my enjoying simply creating. Thank you for this!!
Procrastinating a whole lotta rest and love for myself and my art. I body gave out this weekend - now I’m stuck in bed with nothing but time. Waking up to this video really got me feeling a sense of excitement. Thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you, my dear! It's wild that our bodies always know before we do. Wishing you a wholesome recovery ❤
I feel so seen and encouraged to start again. You’re absolutely right, it keeps bubbling up bc I care so much about my project. Thank you for this!
can't wait to see what you create, Tiffany! 💗
Nneka!!!! So excited to see your face and hear your voice!!! Your creativity always lights a fire in me. Happy to see you back at it!
hey boo!! I'm so glad you're here 🥰 ahhh thank you! we got this. one step at a time.
Great video! Great quality! That’s why I love TH-cam!
You’re incredible. Storytelling. Visuals. Music. Thank you for blessing my timeline today 🙏🏼
thank you so much for watching, beautiful ❤️
My launch into my creative passions - the film, the show, the art, the life, me 💖
Sending love to you girlie 💙
I asked God to speak to me and your video popped up❤. Wow. Just what i needed yo hear
Dude, this was amazing. Especially being something that we all can connect with so deeply. I’ve started like 50 “creation” challenges and failed all of them. This was much needed, starting every day is what’s important.
I needed this. Thank you for inspiring me to reignite the flame💛
so glad if found you, Deborah! we're in this together ♥️
This is profoundly beautiful. Thank you.
thank you for watching 🤎
So inspired, this was gorgeous.
this means the world. thank you! ❤️
Thank you. This video was the motivation I needed 😅 I’ve had a particular art book idea I’ve not seen anyone else do and right when I started working on it, life around me starting falling apart. Things are better now but it’s been months really since I touched the project and in the last 2-3 days I’ve been working on it during any time I can steal away to myself and focus. Then this video comes along and reaffirms my aspiration.
Be blessed and I’m so excited to see what you produce. Thank you!
Happy birthday! I'm not sure why this popped up in my feed, but I enjoyed it. Keep pressing on, and good luck.
ahhh thanks so much, Nathan! 🫶🏽
i am so glad that i found your channel, thank you for drawing from your own to spread inspiration!! ❤
thank you so much for watching ❤
Love all of this! May beautiful courage rain on us all, and wishing you emergent movement on this project and your creations 🌊✨🤲
thank you so much for these kind words ❤️ wishing you strength on the path as well, my friend!
I'm so glad I found you. Here's to starting a new journey filled with love, laughs, friendships and accomplishing all our goals and dreams 🥂.
I’ve had this video in my watch later. Just sat down to do some work and while playing my watch later videos in the background. This video is cinematic and beautifully made that I had to stop what I was doing! Felt inspired affffff 🥹
This is so true! When you're working on your passion you can work all day then workout without issue.
Oh I needed to see this one. So so sooooo many unfinished projects waiting for me to revisit and actualize. This is such a powerful and wonderful reminder. Thank you for sharing your art and looking forward to that premiere for #100!!!
"I implore you to check your own pockets for the key before reaching your hands for something they do not posses" is prbly one of the hardes qoutes on the internet i have ever heard!
my god I've never subscribed to a channel faster... beautiful work. I can't wait to see more. Such inspiring and thought provoking shot compositions
Ooof I love when the algorithm does me some good! 👏 I have many personal side projects that I’ve been trying to launch for years, but there is *one* that is “bigger” and way more personal for me, and it’s the one I have the most resistance to starting because I know it requires me to show up in the biggest way. Thank you 🙏
Im learning art again, design and form and color all over again, because I spent 10 years of my life focusing on such a small part of art, style, that I didn't learn anything else. I didn't learn the rules and despite all my hard work, I am not satisfied with it. So I'm learning all over again, going through all the pain staking lessons I should have already learnt but sacrificed for immediate satisfaction. I think this video is a sign that it's about damn time, so thank you. I hope to see more of your journey soon
Your voice 🥹… oh my goodness. It ignited something in me. It’s so gentle and embracing. Your words, my goodness once again ✨. I think I’ll be sticking around to hear more of what you say. Keep going 😊
Beautifully executed can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!
thank you so much!! 🥹🫶🏽
This is literally the best piece of media i have seen today!! i really have so many projects i want to do but i feel like i have no time or mood or energy. But i guess i was just expecting too much from my piece of work to the point that i couldn't do it
thank you for these kind words, friend! Whew, the paralysis is reallll when it comes to our own projects. I try to remember that everything compounds. Doing the smallest thing, every day, will eventually get us there ❤️
"that haunts us." that is such a powerful note, and I am excited to see this come into being for you. Here for the long haul now
You gots dis!!! I definitely have a project in mind and this is such a good reminder to keep pursuing it. I rarely see my projects to completion and that is a cry and shame. Here’s to finishing what we started!
the opening is so beautifully filmed, every single shot is so aesthetically pleasing im in love!!!! (ure so gorgeous & your voice is so beautiful) sending u motivation and inspiration!!
Oh wow I love this so much. Thank you for being so vulnerable in your process! This is so real and so relatable. I am 34 and working on a children's book and a novel both of which take turns occupying the most space in my mind while I am doing other things, and I flip between a) telling myself I am TOO ambitious and shouldn't expect too much, and b) showing myself that it might actually be possible -- and that's where we're at! Still working/procrastinating/following the process/feeling frustrated with the process/having mini breakthrus/doing nothing etc etc for what feels like forever.
I got chills when you named the thing outloud that you want to do/accomplish and I want to come to the premiere!!! Even if it's after 10 vids instead of 100. And I don't even know where that would be lol but thanks for genuinely inspiring creative community process and for breaking this internet wall. Subscribing now✨
This wasn’t supposed to make me cry. But it did. Lost everything, having a hard time starting over and this really hit me. Thank you.
I have so many creative projects I want to pursue, but the one that gives me the drive you speak about is not what I'd call creative. But listening to you has made me think, "You know what? I am doing something completely new in this. It IS a creative process. It IS infusing my every thought and effort. And I AM procrastinating on key aspects because they DO make me uncomfortable." Imma follow your journey now, because I am going to connect with and parallel it in my own endeavour. Which IS a creative one. Go Us!
“If it’s too open, it’s not going to get done.” So true!
I cried when you packed up the brushes. This shook something in me. TFS 🫶🏾
One of my favourite quotes is that the time passes anyway whether you do it or not. It’s a big help and an even bigger realisation 💜
You are speaking directly to the deepest parts of my soul.
Thank you so much for watching ♥ we got this!
I dunno who you are, or what I searched to change the algorithm in order to deserve to have this video come across my feed. I dunno what kind of life you’ve had, I dunno how you vote, or what kind of company you keep, I dunno how many dimensions you have, or how old your soul is. I do know I love you, and I believe in you. Subscribing now.
PS. This project NEEDS to happen, it has reason, it has purpose, it has depth. Show us who we are. ❤ you got this.
this is one of the most beautiful things anyone has ever written me. thank you simply isn't enough, but thank you for every single word. i'll be saving this.
I loved this! I’ve been procrastinating on creating my website/blog. ✨ It’s because of fear.
we need YOUR blog, Darielle! Only one you. Let's push through this fear together, friend ❤️
Happy Birthday!!! I hear the collective WHOOOOMPH! of the pilot light of inspired projects starting up!
For years, through my whole youth I carried this idea of making a certain Story (Manga/Graphic Novel) with certain characters and a certain meaning. Through the years it transformed many times and evolved so much, taking twists and turns- planned to be my magnum Opus. When the time was right. When I had published Stories before just to know how it‘s done. It had to had to be my main work, my epic with the most Volumes- all in my head. For the last to years I told myself i will start *soon*, making designs, elaborate on Worldbuilding, fleshing out everything, even what pigments to use for which characters if i would colour it- Needless to say this whole bubbled up construct kept me from ever bringing it out of my head, some charcter illustrations aside. But now, I‘m happy to say your Video came at the right time, because my Story hatched- just into one, simple small short story. Taking away the pressure of being a big project, it actually opened up so many opportunities and i‘m so eager to bring it out now. Also the idea became so pressing, my brain doesn‘t even leave me a choice anymore, last sunday i finally started writing the script, currently furnishing it. Can‘t wait to start and draw the first page…
A simple short story is great. Then later, if you want, you can do volume 2 and add to it all you want. You got this😊
A short story is great. Can always add more volumes to it later if you want😊
Sorry for the double reply. My internet is messing up since they came out and upgraded it🤪
This is incrediblely well made! I can tell it took a long time...THANK YOU for making a video about your creative process and goals. Earlier tonight i spoke to my grandma in a disgusted-and-worry fueled rant about the blatant theft and deception that is AI, how its stealing people's videos and art...but your video is what humanity is really about. I guess you could say it's not important in the big, big scheme of things...because HUMANITY is more important and will always be. THIS is more important. Human creation and artistic struggle! Artistic CARING!!! So thank you!!!
The algorithm finally gets me! I'm so glad I came across this stunning video and will follow along as you post more. As someone who, after 9 years of sitting on their story, is FINALLY writing the damn book series -- I am hardcore cheering you on!
I was half expecting another shoe commercial at the beginning because they are a vague sense of motivation. I love this. You are right random lady in my suggested list, I should start again. I think I will. Thank you!
I absolutely needed this today. Thank you so much for creating this, and sharing this truth and wisdom with us because it’s so liberating & motivating to watch! Also the cinematography is incredible!
I’ve got a lot of creative things I want to pursue. But my one at the moment? The one that I’ve gained the idea months ago?
A film project. Possibly animation. A topic which is daunting to me every day.
A horror film with my friends that I can SEE perfectly in my vision.
I’m not even done with high school yet. But I have so much I want to work on. So many passions to pursue.
And I want to get this done before I leave high school, have this as a big thing that people will see and be in awe of.
I’m glad I saw this video, because I think that’s giving me the push I need to get back into my creative projects.
Happy to see you Nneka! Can’t wait to see more 🤗🤎
so happy you're here, beautiful ❤️
That intro was so strong. Goosebumps and tears in my eyes in the first 10sec. It did something to me. Thank you!
I’m very glad this video came up on my recommended. As a 20 year old I have no clue what to do with my life. When you said “why do I keep thinking about this project” I realized. I think about being a freelance artist A LOT. This video gave me some motivation to keep doing that even though it will be hard. So thank you^^
I love your voice 😩 so glad I found your channel!
I am in love with the over production of this video and I’m glad it came across my timeline because it is what I needed. Thank You!
That amnesia part is really impactful. Thinking of all the days that blur. Or I'll be out doing my daily life and suddenly completely loose my entire train of thought having no idea where I am or what I'm doing for a minute because I do the same thing every day.
You, my dear, are MEANT to be a filmmaker (coming from a fellow photographer with a degree in critical film studies.) This has been my introduction to your work, and I rarely come across visual storytelling this good. Automatically subscribed. I also needed to hear this today, so thank you!
I’m so thankful I found you now. I hope I can watch every single one of those 100 films!! 🧡
This is beautiful. Thank you for creating this🫶🏾
Thank you for watching, Archie! ❤