OJ Pod: EPI-28: What-No Gravy?

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Sometimes, we ask for more than we can handle in one sitting.

Then we add even more to our plate.

Like extra gravy.

Gravy’s tasty…until you’ve had too much.

You asked your mom for more on your mashed pertaters but she poured in excess. And you must clean your plate.

In this example, you’re your own mom; the supreme purveyor of all things gravy-like.

In your attempt to get your mission cooking, you asked for too much. Now the taste of gravy sickens you as you try to eat it all.

Nobody forced you to take this job

Always remember that when the gravy boat comes your way once too often, every now and again.

The increased workload is part of the bargain.

My workload has increased mightily, due to the creation of two more podcasts getting connected to this site.

There’s no easy way for me to say what I’ve got to say inside one podcast. It would get messy, confusing.

I had to split the messages.

So I’m upping my capacity

This, all by itself, is no big deal.

I have a fairly decent podcast production system in place that gets a little easier/faster to use as I go.

But the amount of change this has created in how all the little pieces of The Big Picture will flow has been a teensy bit enormous.

(Life’s better with the odd oxymoron unexpectedly tossed about here and there, I find.)

I’ve reached another Bifurcation Point

This is a term I learned from Bill Harris at Centerpointe.

A bifurcation point is when a system has absorbed all the entropy (chaos) it can safely contain.

Any more energy will cause the system to do one of two things:

Break down, destroy itself
or reorganize at a higher level so that the amount of entropy is now easily managed, due to increased tolerance levels

In my case, these two new shows have created chaos (entropy) within the Outsiders Journey’s current system, in the forms of

needing new art that I can’t easily create or easily afford to have made
deciding how to handle the now separate and distinctly different three audiences I’ll be speaking to
creating the best suited services and products for these new audiences
and equipment failures due to operator error, as I struggle to remember all the ins and outs of the recording studio I have built

But I’ve been here before

My entire life, I’ve been forced to learn about new systems and situations faster than is ever comfortable, or intense in some other way as to make failure a non-option.

It’s like that for me with a lot of this platform building.

But it won’t kill me. And it wont kill you.

Try and remember that handily equalizing thought whenever the tension in your studio gets a bit high.

This won’t kill you. You will get better. It always makes more sense, eventually,

And one day you will wake up to realize you are kicking ass on a level you once thought impossible to reach.

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Key Points:

I’m creating two new podcasts for Outsiders Journey: After Bipolar Podcast and NSA Pod
Despite not wanting to heavily focus on anything bipolar, I feel I’ve found a way to do it that will be helpful to those who need it, as well as meet my needs in a way I couldn’t pull off the last time this was my main focus
I’m creating an NSA podcast to share my entrainment experiences and also to help the doctors who’ve made this their calling, in a way that puts me in control
“Control”: As a freelancer, I found my clients often got in the way of how I could help them best. So, for this one set of folks, I am building things my way, not needing their approval and not stepping on their toes at the same time
The above item is one of my coolest “out of the box” initiatives ever
As you’ll hear, equipment failures/operator error are part and parcel of every production, at some point
Even though I am increasing my workload, the eventual outcome is actually simplifying my life
Throughout all of this work, I am doing my best to protect my back. You do the same.