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Welcome back to podcasting in this episode.
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I'm diving into how I'm balancing or trying to balance, rather,
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working a full time job, nine to five and do podcasting,
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developing Wolfshold Media, my podcast network and more.
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First off, I'll be honest, I'm not managing it all that well.
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It's tough to find the time and energy for podcasting
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when I get home from work at 5 p.m.
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All I want to do is sit in front of the TV and let my brain rot
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with some mindless TV shows Monday through Friday.
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I would say the most productive time for me during the week
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is actually surprisingly my lunch break.
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I get an hour and during that time, I work on things like this script, for instance.
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Right now, I'm sitting in a Starbucks near my office, typing this out.
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My lunch hour is when I write scripts and sometimes even edit episodes,
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which leaves the weekend for recording and finishing up the editing process.
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Honestly, the main thing I need to improve on
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is using my free time during the weekdays more effectively,
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whether that's waking up a bit more early or pushing myself to work on podcasting
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in the evenings, I need to find the energy.
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The evenings are hard, though, between dishes, laundry, walking the dog, chores,
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figuring out dinner. My time disappears quickly.
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If I really had the motivation, I could squeeze in a least a few hours
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of podcasting each evening without, you know, cutting into my sleep too much.
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How can I manage my time better?
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I think meal prepping could help if I didn't have to cook dinner every night.
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I'd free up a decent chunk of time.
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I could also plan my tasks out better.
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I've tried using tools like Asana before,
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which is a task management tool or a project management tool, rather.
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And I kind of fell off the wagon of that.
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I also think waking up just an hour earlier
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could give me some extra time to either podcast or knock out some chores,
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which could open up my evenings even more.
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Another thing I can't forget is the importance of downtime.
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I don't want to burn out, so I need to figure out how to balance work
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with moments of rest, whether that's watching TV or pursuing another hobby.
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It only we had more than 24 hours in a day, right?
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Lastly, I tend to be pretty hard on myself.
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I mean, I stress out when I don't get as much done as I think I should.
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And that creates a lot of tension.
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Ironically, it makes me less productive because I'm too stressed out to focus.
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And that's really the issue that I'm currently running into
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is just finding the time and the energy to podcast
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when I am working a full time job
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and all the other things that are required of everyday life.
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And I understand that if I had just a, you know, just one podcast
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I was trying to do, maybe I would feel better about this.
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But I do have high standards and high goals as far as with podcasting is concerned.
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I have this podcast, podcasting.
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I have a, as previously mentioned, the Wolfshild Media podcast network,
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which I'm developing, and I have other podcasts of my own
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that are in development as well.
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And so trying to manage all these can be definitely a challenge.
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On the weekends, I am very productive on the weekends for podcasting.
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Saturday and Sunday, I'm able to, you know, podcast most of the day
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where I can record and write scripts and research and edit
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and do all that kind of stuff on the weekend, which is great.
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I look forward to it.
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I look forward to my Saturday and Sunday where I'm able to go full throttle
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and kind of do everything I want to do as far as podcasting,
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as far as Wolfshild Media is concerned.
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But the weekends just don't do it, just don't cut it as far as being able
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to get everything I want to get done.
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And so trying to figure out how to manage that better.
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And that's something I'm working on.
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I think one thing I'm going to do for sure
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is just try to wake up an hour earlier and see kind of what that does for me.
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And I want to make sure that I'm also getting enough sleep, though.
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So that's going to be the challenge.
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But waking up an hour early, I think, could really benefit me
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just because I could really get to a point where I can do chores
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before work rather than having to do them when I get home.
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I could even maybe do some podcasting planning or something
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during that extra hour where I am awake before going to work.
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That's just a few things that I'm trying to figure out as far as what I want to do.
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That's kind of it for today.
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If you guys have any questions, let me know.
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Curious to hear your thoughts on this.
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So if you are struggling with this, if you have figured out a way
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to improve your time management when it comes to podcasting,
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let me know. You can go on podcasting.com, leave me a voicemail
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and you will be featured on the next episode.
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Whether it's a comment or question, we will talk about it.
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The beginning of the episode, that's something I want to start doing,
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is featuring you on the podcast and answering or commenting on a comment
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that you put in your voicemail.
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So if you want to go on to podcasting.com, leave me a voicemail.
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That would be awesome. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Also leave us a review if you enjoy what we're trying to do here at podcasting.
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And I'd also love to hear your guys' journey as well.
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So you could also do that via voicemail at podcasting.com.
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You could leave me a voicemail promoting your podcast.
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That's fine. We can do some promotions.
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I could do a whole episode putting together a bunch of different podcasts
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into doing one episode promoting everybody's podcast.
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There's a lot of different options there.
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And so, yeah, just send me a voicemail and I'd be happy to have you guys on the show.
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So let me know what your thoughts are on this episode.
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If you guys have any ideas, I would be happy to check them out.
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Thank you and have a good day.
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Day and enjoy the quest and keep on podcasting.
