YouTube is great!

Just in this week my wife has learned how to make Mozarella cheese by watching a YouTube video. (She hasn't done it yet but I'm certain it will happen.) I have been inspired by listening to Larry Adler talking about his life and his harmonica playing (You can see it here if it interests you) also on YouTube.

So often we hear about the tragedies of modern life (and there are many) but the ability to spread positive information, tuition and knowledge has never been more accessible or affordable (often it's free).

The old saying is that it takes more muscles in your face to frown than to smile and now perhaps we have a digital analogy of that maxim. It easier now to spread good news about life than malicious gossip and rumour. It's easier because when you're spreading good news or knowledge there is no need to hide or be furtive; it takes less energy to be nice!

What will you do today?

Who needs to destress?

A while ago I produced a 7 minute de-stress video and launched it on both YouTube and Google video. You can see it here.

What is interesting is that YouTube has the ability to show the demographics of those who watch the videos (assuming people don't lie about their age and gender of course). Of those watching the video, 76% were male and 24% female, the vast majority of those watching were in the 45 to 54 year old age range.

I had assumed that the male / female ratio would have been flipped around the other way if I went by the ratio of clients in personal therapy.

I could theorize for hours on why this might be so but perhaps it is as simple as guys wanting to fix their problem for themselves and ladies being willing to work things out with the help of someone else.

I would welcome any insights into this from the blog readers.

2 Hours of play speeded up

This will remind you that life should be about more than making money to pay the bills (although that's important too).

This is two hours of play from a 9 month old baby speeded up into just 2 minutes. The adult interventions have been edited out.



Now, didn't that make you smile?