You may have seen that many of our videos on our Facebook page have subtitles.

 

That’s because Facebook has inbuilt software on pages that allows us to add them.

 

Takes a little while, but adds value to the video.

 

You can’t (currently, at least) do this for videos you upload to your personal profile, groups, etc.

 

So I recently looked into ways to have them added before the upload stage.

 

I put a ‘job description’ on the internet to find someone, including a video of me talking so they were confident they could understand my voice accurately.

 

I accepted one guy and sent him the first few videos to transcribe and add the subtitles.

 

He wrote back saying “I’m struggling to understand you. Could you use a different accent?”

 

Madness of, course.

 

I could put on a fake accent, but that would probably be even harder to understand.

 

It’s like he thought I have a selection of accents that I pick from dependant on the situation.

 

I am what I am and it’s about working within that.

 

Like it is for you.

 

Whilst we’re all about transformations and change……….

 

We all are, fundamentally, what we are.

 

You are what you are.

 

Forcing yourself to do something you don’t like will only work for so long.

 

Willpower is a finite resource.

 

Successful, long term, changes comes, in our experience, from a combination of;

 

Questioning certain habits, beliefs and ways of thinking that may not serve you best……….

 

And finding something that works for YOU.

 

That you’re happy (or, at least, ok) with doing (check this link if you want to find out if what we do is that thing –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting).

 

That fits round your life, your commitments, etc.

 

Tweak yourself in places, sure.

 

But you are what you are.

 

Work with that, not against it 🙂

 

Much love,

 

Jon ‘I don’t have an accent. Everyone else does’ Hall and Matt ‘Accentidental’ Nicholson
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RISE Macclesfield – myrise.co.uk

 

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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.