A great discussion yesterday, spun up this conversation… I adore the episode I published yesterday (and it was done from the comfort of my living room!)
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Up until a recent episode everything I did was done
Jonathan Stewart:from the studio that I'm in right now.
Jonathan Stewart:and was recorded with my slightly fancy microphone.
Jonathan Stewart:I believed that the reality of what I do and how I do it means
Jonathan Stewart:that a good podcast recording needed to be done on this computer.
Jonathan Stewart:Now that changed when I suddenly had an idea for an episode and my partner was in
Jonathan Stewart:her studio, meaning I couldn't be in mine as loud noise recording doesn't match.
Jonathan Stewart:I had a choice.
Jonathan Stewart:I either could capture the idea down in my obsidian and record it the very next
Jonathan Stewart:day or decide to record it then and there.
Jonathan Stewart:The episode I recorded was called I see you and it's one of the rare
Jonathan Stewart:unscripted episodes of the season.
Jonathan Stewart:Because I had something to say that was perhaps less, I need a structure
Jonathan Stewart:for this but matched frankly, how I was feeling at the time.
Jonathan Stewart:So I decided to record it quickly in my living room with my Mac book
Jonathan Stewart:with the idea of coming in next day and rerecording it in my studio.
Jonathan Stewart:However, once I came into this space in this room, I realized that actually there
Jonathan Stewart:was nothing wrong with the recording.
Jonathan Stewart:Now I could tell it wasn't quite as crisp as my usual recordings, but
Jonathan Stewart:honestly it wasn't bad quality at all.
Jonathan Stewart:I had an assumption or preconceived notion that meant my reality was I
Jonathan Stewart:could only record in my studio space.
Jonathan Stewart:In a previous episode, I spoke about the disconnect between wants and haves
Jonathan Stewart:and I briefly mentioned, that the environment or reality could be changed.
Jonathan Stewart:This here is a fantastic example of the nonlinear process I spoke about
Jonathan Stewart:in that previous episode, what you want, what you have and what you do.
Jonathan Stewart:What I wanted was to record an episode about keeping going even when you feel
Jonathan Stewart:like nothing is working, because at that time, I had been feeling like
Jonathan Stewart:that for the last couple of months.
Jonathan Stewart:What I had was no access to my studio.
Jonathan Stewart:due to my partner streaming at the time.
Jonathan Stewart:Okay, so with that, what did I actually want?
Jonathan Stewart:Well, I still wanted to record the episode.
Jonathan Stewart:I was in that moment where Hey actually I'm going to
Jonathan Stewart:record this episode right now.
Jonathan Stewart:That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Jonathan Stewart:Okay.
Jonathan Stewart:So what did I have access to I had access to my Macbook without
Jonathan Stewart:a fancy mic but a mic nonetheless!
Jonathan Stewart:In a coaching call I had recently a client of mine was trying to force themselves
Jonathan Stewart:to do something, to make things happen.
Jonathan Stewart:They put themselves in a position which actually caused a lot of pain and
Jonathan Stewart:issues for them, but they did it because they felt they needed to do something.
Jonathan Stewart:I've been there many, a times where I forced myself to stay up late to finish
Jonathan Stewart:something, knowing full well that my capacity is completely drained, but
Jonathan Stewart:quote, unquote, I have to do it now.
Jonathan Stewart:But the question that I'm starting to ask myself is.
Jonathan Stewart:Is it.
Jonathan Stewart:Is this truly the reality of my situation?
Jonathan Stewart:Or am I assuming something that isn't completely true?
Jonathan Stewart:Although my situation with the recording wasn't ideal.
Jonathan Stewart:I still figured out a way of working with the reality of what was available at the
Jonathan Stewart:time and still going after what I wanted.
Jonathan Stewart:There isn't really one way of doing things.
Jonathan Stewart:It just depends on what the environment allows.
Jonathan Stewart:And this is actually really hard to portray in a task list or project outline.
Jonathan Stewart:It is something that is flexible, fluid and dynamic and is dependent
Jonathan Stewart:on what's actually going on.
Jonathan Stewart:And so when you look at your task lists, often you may realize that
Jonathan Stewart:actually it's far more than just a single task or a single action.
Jonathan Stewart:It has more depth and by trying to over simplify it into one step it may actually
Jonathan Stewart:be causing more frustration for you stopping you from taking that action
Jonathan Stewart:We are told that we've got to do hundreds of things every day, and sometimes
Jonathan Stewart:it might require us to do it anyway.
Jonathan Stewart:But sometimes we're telling ourselves things that we perceive as true,
Jonathan Stewart:but sometimes just aren't instead of starting from a perception based on
Jonathan Stewart:a preconceived notion or assumption.
Jonathan Stewart:Start from you.
Jonathan Stewart:Don't want to go it alone reach out to me at simplicity-specialist.com