How to Incorporate Streaming into Your Life Goals

 How to Incorporate Streaming into Your Life Goals

Streaming can be very challenging and requires a considerable amount of time, dedication, and hard work. In previous articles, we discussed and highlighted the importance of prioritizing the growth of your channel by sacrificing less important activities. As a result, this may leave you feeling like you are neglecting other important aspirations in your life. However, with a little creativity, you can leverage your stream to achieve your broader life goals. Rather than viewing streaming as a hindrance, it can become a tool to help you attain your desired outcomes. 

Let’s take a look at examples of how your stream can help you achieve your life goals. These examples will demonstrate how incorporating your goals into your channel can accelerate your progress, enhance your experience or even enable you to learn a new skill. I’m hoping by reviewing these instances below you can gain insight into how to integrate your own bucket list items into your streaming activities. If you are looking to accomplish your goals efficiently and effectively, your stream can be a valuable tool for you to utilize. With a little creativity and effort, you too can leverage your stream to achieve your life aspirations.

Expediting your progress toward your goals

The first goal is one that many streamers can relate to and that is tackling a backlog of games in their various libraries. Many gamers accumulate a vast collection of games that they intend to play but never get around to. By streaming, gamers have the opportunity to work through their backlog all while sharing their experience with their audience. Building your channel around playing through your game collection will allow you to play games that you may never have otherwise played and experienced. Overall, streaming can provide you with countless hours of entertainment and the opportunity to explore new games. Playing video games is a hobby that many people enjoy, and streaming can accelerate the pace at which you play. Many gamers myself included may only have played games on weekends or during free time. However, streaming provides a structured routine that encourages gamers like you and me to play for several hours. By streaming regularly, you can dedicate more time to playing video games and speed up your progress toward your goal of expanding your gaming repertoire and tackling that collection in your backlog. Streaming helps you take a goal that you were slowly working on and achieve it much faster. 

Maximizing your goals

The next goal is a little more unorthodox for a streamer but let’s look at how streaming can help you learn a new passion. For example, maybe you have always been interested in coding but have never found the time or motivation to learn it. However, once you start streaming, you realize that you could use it as a tool to help you get started and learn. By streaming your programming sessions, you are able to receive feedback and guidance from your viewers.  Your audience can point out errors in the code or suggest better ways of doing things. Not only does stream motivate you to code more regularly, but it also accelerates your learning process. You are able to learn programming at a faster pace and with added engagement than if you had just done it alone. Your community can be an incredible resource. Viewers who also the program can provide you with personalized recommendations and point you in the direction of resources that match your learning style and can even offer support when you hit roadblocks.  You can find motivation and accountability from streaming your sessions as viewers will often ask about your progress and offer encouragement. Overall, streaming is a great tool to enhance your knowledge of programming, giving you the resources and community support you need to succeed. 

Achieving a new goal

Streaming can be utilized as a tool when trying to achieve a goal such as health and fitness. As streamers, we spend long hours sitting in front of a computer or console snacking on junk food, playing games, which leads to a sedentary lifestyle. If you want to make a change while still doing what you love why not use streaming to achieve that change? If you are not a fan of traditional gym routines, and you don’t want to give up the time you have dedicated to streaming, you can find ways to incorporate healthy habits into your streams. One way to start incorporating healthy habits into your stream is by cutting out sugary drinking drinks during streams and replacing them with water.  You can also get up and take short breaks to stretch between games. Once you get comfortable you can get your community involved by adding exercises for every follow or subscription or when a key moment happens in a game or even adding a channel point redemption. To take things even further, you can introduce weekly check-in/challenges where you and your community track progress and encourage each other to make healthy choices. These challenges can not only improve your own health but also create a supportive community. By streaming not only are you sharing your love for video games, but you can also achieve your health and fitness goals. 

Final Thoughts

Streamers have found innovative ways to incorporate their goals and passions into their streams. For example, some will showcase their cooking skills, many incorporate their artistic talents, while others document their journey in developing their own video game. By creatively integrating your goals into your streams, you are not only making your streaming more fulfilling for yourself but also offering a unique experience for your viewers. Streaming your progress can also provide an added level of motivation to help you achieve your goals. Streaming can be a powerful tool to help you reach your aspirations and turn them into great pieces of content.