Season 7 Episode 5

This one, I am calling ‘This Exhausting Life'.

Now, the reason for that is, it's been a couple of weeks, I think since I did my last episode. Part of the reason for that is I was actually migrating this podcast from anchor.com over to transistor.fm.

Transistor.fm is a podcast hosting service I'm now using as opposed to the free one from Anchor. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with Anchor or I have any major complaints. I just feel that they're falling behind in functionality and progression. Mostly since they got bought out by Spotify.

That's not me criticizing Spotify or anything like that. I just feel that they're falling behind other services. After I tried Transistor.fm (they don't pay me for this or anything like that. In fact, I pay them), they are working out well.

I have been moving all my podcasts over there, but that can be exhausting and they really simplify the migration process.

I've also been killing off some services and some Web sites that I don't really use anymore or take advantage of. I'm just trying to simplify things, because it's getting exhausting folks, life is a challenge for everybody and I realized my evenings are filling up with lots of things that I wanted to do and enjoy doing, but I was leaving no time for downtime.

That's important. You need to have time where you don't do anything at all as part of your plan. Now that may sound a little weird, but as I've said before if you don't have downtime to recharge yourself and you constantly go at it, you're going to reach a breaking point where you're just done.

So it's important to have downtime and just do nothing. I did the CompileSwift stream in the evening. That's a progression, that's my win right there. Remember how I was saying in a previous episode you should do something to move forward big or small, just do something and you're making progress and that's your win.

Also as I'm getting older too, it always gives you pause for thought and say, well, where are you going for another year? Where are you going for whatever period of time after that? I was thinking to myself, I think I need to reduce, as I had mentioned before, my keywords this year, are reduction and focus.

So I decided to kill off a few things. It really doesn't affect the listenership here too much, but it gives me a chance to move in and focus a little. And I feel like over the past couple of years because of COVID and everything else, my photography, for example, has taken a huge hit and I really desperately badly need to get back into there as a creative outlet.

That's something that I want to focus on a lot this year. When I say, it's this exhausting life is when you realize all the things you do and which ones do you want to do? Which ones do you need to do? And which ones, why are you doing them?

If you're asking yourself, why am I doing them? And you don't have an answer. Well, you probably don't want to be doing those because they are channeling effort and energy away from the ones that you have a reason to be doing.

This podcast in a way is an audio journal for me, it's kind of therapeutic, I think for a lot of creative folks, just putting something like this out there helps them remove the noise from their creative brain.

So, I like doing episodes like this, and I don't mind putting it out there. I'm kind of exposing myself so that other folks realize it's okay to do that. It's actually very healthy, right? You don't want to keep it inside forever. And if you have an outlet to share it with someone and maybe connect with someone who's having similar problems and they realize, oh, it's not just me.

Well, then you've helped somebody.

So I hope that this helps someone. Please if it does, I would dearly love to hear from you. You can reach out to me on this site and let me know, you can leave comments on this podcast, while you're at it, if you want to, leave a review or a rating, that's another way of telling me that I'm striking a chord with you.

That's something that I always hope that I do with these episodes.