Your First Goals/Aims/Ideas?

[OlgaBer]

I have heard many guys started to create videos not in order to monetize them, but they firstly had the other goals, like, create a library of useful content for themselves, create some kind of business card for themselves without any future plans to proceed, learn video editing and video recording as a part of their university/college course, create a video diary of their learning music/languages/programming/drawing/etc for improving their skill and so on. I believe, having the other goal before your channel starts getting monetized is the best strategy because before you will be able to start monetization of your channel, 1, 2, 3, or 5 years may pass, especially if your channel is for a really specific group, for instance, for linguists, vector artists, or other.
So, my question is: what are your first goals before you get monetized?
I believe it might be too depressive to wait for starting monetization endlessly if you don't have any other goals except that, and if your target audience is narrow enough...

 

[KiddieToysReview]

First goals should be to define your niche, learn to make engaging videos, learn the platform and how it works, get into a routine of filming, editing, uploading, promoting. Once you have a few dozen videos, a few subs and a few views, then you can focus on taking the channel to the next level and monetize.

 

[AllVisuals4U]

I make my videos to learn something new (YouTube, video editing) and it's also a documentation of what I learned and created. Together with that I hope to help other people with my tutorials! If I could monetize that, that would be a great bonus.