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Chapter 1: What reflections does the host have on 2024?
We have reached the end of 2024. Isn't it awesome? Maybe. Maybe some of us feel like this year didn't really bring a whole lot, to be completely honest. We didn't feel like there was a lot of excitement in our lives. Maybe we are looking back at the year and thinking, man, that was a whole lot of mid. I want you to know one thing.
Chapter 2: Why is 2025 considered the year for change?
It's okay because 2024 was practice bro. 2025 is our year.
Maybe a year ago today, I was in my childhood bedroom in Palatine, Illinois. And the one thing I wanted out of my 2024 year was to be consistent, to finally do something that I felt like I could show up for every single day. And it took me the entire year. Until in November, I finally decided, you know what? I'm not going to care what anybody thinks.
Chapter 3: What personal goals does the host set for themselves?
I'm going to change the entire way I approach making videos. I approach my life. And I'm going to focus on creating The Zerky Show. And that single thing has changed my life. It has given me a new purpose. I wake up in the morning and I think, how can I make the best episode of The Zerky Show every single day? Some days...
i fall short some days i record and i think this sucks this is bad i wouldn't even watch this but i do it anyways because that's just my self-doubt talking the main thing is that i show up day in day out i show up and i treated 2024, like it was practice. I told myself, you know what?
Even if I don't succeed, even if I don't get to a position that I want to be in, I just want to prove to myself that I can do it. And that is the only person you need to prove anything to. Sure, like proving your ex wrong when you have a glow up is awesome for like a day. for like a week. What is even more awesome is proving to yourself that you could do it. It's a beautiful thing.
Chapter 4: How can you prove something to yourself in 2025?
So in 2025, what do you want to prove to yourself? What do you want to prove to yourself? Is it the fact that you can make the first team in something? You can make the starting 11 in on your high school soccer debut?
Is it that you can finally design that jacket you've been telling all of your friends you're going to make so they can support your clothing brand, your new clothing brand that you're coming out with? Is it finally telling somebody that you have feelings for them? What are you going to do in 2025 to make yourself proud? Because I am proud of myself this year.
I had my shortcomings, I had my failures, but I'm proud. Damn, I did a good job. Damn, Daniel, I did a great job. Do I have things I can improve on? Uh, yeah. Like, a lot of things I can improve on. Probably more than I want to admit. But that's okay. Because I know that I can show up for myself. And that is a big thing.
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Chapter 5: What lessons were learned from disappointments in the past year?
There's a dog. A new dog just spawned. What's up, man? Oh, nice. And he's peeing. That's beautiful. He just peed in front of me. That's gorgeous. And I remember the feelings I had in 2023 on New Year's because I spent it alone and I did it on purpose because I really wanted to give myself time to think and reflect. And I felt disappointed. I felt really disappointed in myself.
And instead of being like, Why do I suck? Instead, I asked myself questions. Do I feel disappointed in myself? Yes. Did I fumble the bag many times this year? Yes. Okay. Can I make changes in this new year to feel better about these things and to improve my life, to improve myself, to improve the way I feel? Yes.
Once I realized that, I really started to get into the weeds of like what that looked like. Like what does a year where I prioritize consistency, where I prioritize myself even look like? Because for a lot of us, we don't know what that is. We have no idea because we live our lives in one way and changing that. It's scary. It's really scary.
Making the conscious effort to live a new life for yourself is not going to be easy. It will be difficult. It will be weird because you are stepping into a territory that you've never, ever stepped into. It's like somebody playing in the G League and then going into the NBA. There's a learning curve. It's like somebody playing in Serie A and then they get a transfer to La Liga. It's not the same.
Chapter 6: What challenges come with prioritizing consistency?
It's different. There's a different speed to everything. You learn very quickly, man, I don't know anything. But guess what? Nobody knows anything ever, ever. That is the biggest secret in this life. Nobody knows anything. Nobody knows what they're doing. They're just doing it. That's the difference. So do something.
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But you have to understand what that thing is because that's different for everybody. If 2024 was practice for you, what are you going to do in 2025 that will make it feel as if you are finally doing the thing that you want to do? What are you going to do so the next year, New Year's Eve 2025, you're like, heck yeah, that was dope.
I really, I really feel proud of myself because real talk, not a lot of us do. Not a lot of us do. We rely a lot on external validation, on what other people will tell us is cool and what we think other people will like and be like, oh, that's a great achievement. We don't even look inward and think like, what do I want to do in this next year?
Some things I want to do this year, I want to finally get in shape. Like, I want to be proud of my body. I want to eat good. I love to eat, but I've been eating bad. I've been bad. Whoa. I have been so bad. I want to get better at that. I want to meet some of the Zerky Show fam. I want to meet some of y'all. I want to build some kind of community.
I want to actually put all of my effort and all of my energy into this. That's what I want. I also really want to go to Alaska because I'd be watching that Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and they make being in Alaska look so cool. Like it is a video game. It is awesome. I don't know. I just want to go there. I feel like it'd be so crazy. I also want to see more of Texas.
And the thing is, I'm not going to wait for these things to happen. I'm going to do them. If I can't go to Alaska, I'm going to go on a road trip in Texas by my lonely. That's fine. And the real truth about all this is I'm the only person who can do it. I have to do it. If I want to go somewhere, I have to plan it out. If I want to throw an event, I have to be the one to do it.
No one is going to do anything for me. So I got to take agency on it. If I really want it to happen, I have to be the initiator. I have to be the one who's going to be like, I'm doing it. I'm booking it. We are going to Big Ben this weekend. I'm going. Don't care if anyone follows. I'm going. And majority of your goals that you have, they probably rely on one person and that is you. That is you.
You are the only person who's going to be able to do it. It's kind of a rough reality because I would love for somebody to figure it out for me. It would be great. It would be awesome. It's not how it works. It's not how it works. When you wait around for the group chat to make plans, they never make plans. So make the plans yourself. Go out and do it yourself. Because the time is going to pass.
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