I’ve wanted to start a vlog for a long time. Years, probably. My first inspiration was Mike Blog (https://mikesblog.com/) — just a guy with a camera, documenting what he does, building in public. Something about it stuck with me.

And I suppose in the simplest terms, this is me finally doing it. This is my first one. It will probably be my worst. But that’s the whole point of starting a vlog — you have to begin somewhere, and somewhere is always messy.

The Space Between Ordinary and Extraordinary

For a long time, my life hasn’t been ordinary. But it hasn’t been extraordinary either. It’s been somewhere in the middle — this strange space where you don’t fit the conventional mould of society.

I’m not calling it the rat race to offend anyone. But there’s a pattern most people follow without questioning it: learn, get employed, work for decades, retire. An infinite cycle of traditionalism that feels safe but rarely feels alive.

I stepped out of that cycle a few years ago. Not because I had it all figured out, but because something inside me wouldn’t let me stay. Moving to Thailand. Running an agency from a laptop. Building systems that work while I sleep. None of it looked like the path I was supposed to take.

And yet — here I am. Living a life that’s hard to explain to people back home but feels more honest than anything I’ve ever done.

The People Who Changed How I See Things

There are people in self-development and personal growth who genuinely changed the way I think. Not in a woo-woo, manifest-your-dreams kind of way. In a practical, you can redesign how you live kind of way.

The study of mastery — of self — has enabled me to see the world differently. To realise that I am more than my circumstances. That I can be more. Not in some abstract motivational poster sense, but in the day-to-day choices of how I spend my time, who I surround myself with, and what I build.

Books like Atomic Habits, Mastery by Robert Greene, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — they didn’t just give me ideas. They gave me permission to take myself seriously. To treat my own growth as the most important project I’ll ever work on.

Why Document It?

A diary is powerful. I’ve kept one for over a year now and it’s changed how I process my days. But there’s something different about broadcasting what you do to the world.

A diary is a conversation with yourself. A vlog is a conversation with the future — yours, and someone else’s.

Here’s what I think most people get wrong about starting a vlog: they think they need something worth showing. A perfect apartment. A dramatic transformation. A highlight reel.

They don’t. The value is in the process, not the production.

When you document your life, three things happen:

  • You become more intentional. The camera forces you to pay attention to what you’re actually doing. It’s a mirror you can’t look away from.
  • You create a record you can learn from. Six months from now, you’ll watch back and see patterns you never noticed. Growth you couldn’t feel in the moment.
  • You give others permission to start. Most people are waiting for someone who looks like them, lives like them, to go first. That person could be you.

Your First Will Be Your Worst

I need to say this out loud because it’s the thing that kept me from starting for years: your first vlog will be bad. The audio will be off. You’ll talk too fast or too slow. You’ll cringe watching it back.

Good. That means you did it.

The gap between “I want to start a vlog” and actually starting one isn’t skill or equipment. It’s ego. The fear of being seen before you’re polished. But nobody starts polished. The people with great vlogs have 50 terrible ones behind them that nobody watched.

Starting is the skill. Everything else comes after.

What This Vlog Will Be

I’m not going to pretend I have a content strategy for this. What I know is:

  • It’ll be honest. No highlight reel. Real days, real work, real lessons.
  • It’ll document what I’m building — the agency, the systems, the life in Thailand.
  • It’ll be something I can look back on in 5 years and be grateful I started.

If even one person watches this and thinks “if he can start, so can I” — that’s enough.

Do This Today

  • Pick up your phone. Record 60 seconds of what you did today. Don’t edit it. Don’t post it. Just get used to the camera.
  • Write down one reason you want to document your life. Not for others. For yourself.
  • Watch your favourite creator’s very first video. Notice how rough it was. Notice they started anyway.

peace Lachy