I planned to launch my 23rd podcast episode this morning. I didn’t. It was 7:30am already and I still had much editing to do. I needed to give up my laptop for my daughter to use for her online classes. We have another small laptop that she could use but today was the special crazy hair day and I wanted her to enjoy her time seeing friends on the bigger screen. I also needed to get ready for my actual job and did not want to take a leave to finish the episode. I did not feel great because I promised the day before it would be out in this morning and because my preparation process failed.

Although I woke up very early as always when I have an episode to launch, the recording part took way too long because I should have prepared differently. My handwritten notes were not helpful as I expected. My previous process of typing my notes and reading them off my laptop screen worked better.

That was my hard lesson for today and I will try again this evening. Or better yet, tomorrow morning.