Hi folks. So listen. I am a pretty good compartmentalizer mixed with a pretty good anti-procrastinator who loves a good routine. It’s what keeps me sane when life gets chaotic. Part of that routine is completing as much as possible at the moment. I’m a wash-the-dishes-as-you-go kind of woman because the last thing I want is another task on the to-do list if I can help it. It also helps me feel accomplished while not putting too much pressure on myself to do more. Because I already feel like I did what I could in the day, even if there are things that I didn’t get to. Anyway…this isn’t a productive self-help book here. It’s just the background to explain why it’s Tuesday, October 14 and I’m getting a little nervous that I don’t know what the next early release interview episode will be. Because it hasn’t been scheduled. And even though there’s still time for it to come together and I have a plan B (and also a plan C, D, E, and F because I like to have options) for what I’ll do if it doesn’t, I still prefer not to let it get this close to the wire.
Which brings me back to an exchange I had with Dan Gomer during another time when the details were coming together in less-than-ideal way (and honestly, when is it actually really all coming together in an ideal way?). We were getting ready to record and I was explaining to him about the poor internet connection when recording Anastasia and Tierra’s episodes to warn him that there was a chance I might need to relocate as I was figuring out where it’s best to record in my new temporary location. And I’m over here giving him too much information about why I was in a different spot, specifically the walk in closet in my parent’s bedroom, because I’m a true believer in it being better to tell on yourself than set some unrealistically high expectation that I don’t meet and then we’re all annoyed and you’re no longer listening or reading or watching or however you’re choosing to interact with this project. And one of the options I had at that time was to just reschedule until I had it all figured out and polished up.
I could have pushed pause on this whole project. It certainly would be more professional if I chose to do that. But I keep coming back to this one thing: real life.
One of the core ideas I had about this whole project was that I wanted to get the real life transparently honest look behind the experiences of the people I spoke to in these 100 interviews. Yes, I want all the ways in which they were successful so that I could follow in their footsteps and learn from them. But I also want to see what it’s really like. It helps me in those challenging times when things aren’t coming together the way that I want to. It puts it into perspective that calms that anxiety that I have in the back of my mind fueled by focusing on all the ways in which I could be better, do better, and make something better. Tierra recently talked about comparison and competition vs. combining forces with those in her industry so they could all be stronger together. Shannon talked about how there are chairs and tables for everybody. There’s no singular right way to go about doing something and there’s no true secret key to success. But there’s knowledge, information, and experiences that can inform your decision between the options of plans A-F (and beyond) so you can use your discernment (another nod to Tierra here) to make the decision that’s best for...
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