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FRUSTRATINGLY SIMPLE.

Listen · Pod 000 · 2024-11-26 · 4:25

Episode 0 — just get started.

Four minutes, recorded mid-week after a flat patch. No lesson, no framework — just a psychologist saying out loud that he got overwhelmed, paced himself, and rested.

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The first thing on this feed, and deliberately a small one.

There is a version of a week where nothing gets produced and it still counts. That's most of what's here: getting overwhelmed, needing to slow down, having a bit of headspace and finding that the rest itself was the accomplishment — which is an awkward thing to sit with if you measure your days in output.

Also: why having every system point in one direction beats having a good system for each thing.

Short by design. The longer episodes start at Pod 001.

What’s in it.

  1. 0:00Straight into it — what happened this week
  2. 0:38The meltdown, and pacing instead of pushing
  3. 1:35Headspace: when the rest is the accomplishment
  4. 2:30Systems, and pointing them all one way
  5. 3:45Exams, reports, invoices — the actual list
  6. 4:15That's all for now

The take-aways.

  • A week with nothing to report can still be a week that worked. Rest is not a gap between the useful parts.
  • Pacing is a decision you make before you need it, not a reward you get afterwards.
  • Scattered systems cost more than they save. One direction beats five good tools.

If you want to go further.

Full transcriptmachine-generated, lightly wrong in places

Okay. So here it is. It's about me talking because it's never going to happen. I'm never going to be able to just pause and have a moment, have many moments, but okay. Welcome. Let's get straight into it. What happened to me this week? I don't know. I guess I had a bit of a meltdown, meltdown. And what happened? Yeah, I think I just got overwhelmed, needed to pace myself a little bit. It's getting overwhelming and a lot of things going on, a lot of projects happening. So I'm just doing some stuff at the moment while I'm doing that. Yeah, I guess I'm just getting my reps, getting some talking happening. And what was interesting was I kind of had some headspace. It was really good to just to think about things, process things.

And yeah, I can't say just a, I think, I think productive, nothing to report. That felt like an accomplishment to complete. It just felt like a good rest. Good rest, lost a couple of good rest. But it was a good rest. I don't know. Yeah. Just thinking through. Thinking through what to do next. All right. So I'm writing this email. Hello there. It might be the coming. Okay. All right. Let me know if you have, okay. There you go. That one's sorted. Now I've got to sort out this other report. All right. All right. So what I've done is, what I've done is with my practice, I have just sent out a bunch of emails saying that, that it will be, there'll be a prepayment required. So I was having some issues with no shows, with appointments being booked and, you know, timely cancellations as well as untimely cancellations. And so anyway, to secure at least my side of, you know, the payment and the service that I provide, just because it's hard to track people down. It's hard to reconcile all of this. Systems are good. Systems are important. I think eventually to have them all channeled through one direction will be the best thing. But yeah, that's a, that's a pragmatic note. But just on a more, I guess, personal note, it's just very, um, just needed a bit more, a bit more time. And it was good. It's good. It's nice. Alhamdulillah. But I've got a lot of work to do. And I've got my exam to study for. And I have my reports to write, my invoice to send, invoices, invoice, invoices, my invoices to send out. And, um, yeah, I don't know. It's all for now. I don't really know. I don't really have much else to report. So let's see how that goes. Might have to be a simple one for today. Thanks for listening to whatever you listen to.

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