It's So Sad There's Other Podcasts in the World

Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Wednesday, April 18. It is currently five woah. Actually, it's five degrees outside. Feels like two degrees.

So I guess, it's warmer outside now. Thankfully for that. This is not a weather podcast though. This is podcast that's brought to you by Patreon supporters at patreon.com/ichris. Thank you to those of you who are supporting me and good stuff indirectly or directly, however you see that going, to patreon.com/ichris.

As expected, the cold has migrated down into the chestular region of my body, and so there's a bit of, you know, a little bit of sinus y stuff that you might hear in my voice, but, just that kind of like it's actually not too bad. I I I should knock on wood or laminate. I don't know what the tabletop is actually on my desk. I'll knock on my desk, because I'm sure it'll, you know, blow into a full blown sneezing, coughing, hacking, snot running everywhere cold. But for now, it's, just, you know, kind of that yucky chest feeling.

So we'll see where it goes. I'm sure I'll update you on Friday, this episode of Daily(ish) with the cold. Luckily, the warmth outside is here. I was thinking this morning about comparing because I if I'm in a bad headspace, just or not even that bad. I don't even have to be.

I can be working just just fine for the most part, but I'll see someone's, like, an established person, but somebody I'm maybe not aware of already having some measure of success or starting a new thing in an arena, like, let's say podcasting or whatever, that I'm already in. And then there's no, like, direct competition, really. There's lots of podcast listener ears to go around for everybody. And, you know, they could be in a completely different space than me in terms of topics or whatever. But it triggers some sort of, like, comparison monster in my brain, the back of my brain that wants to just, like, tear everything down, shut everything down, say that there's no point anymore by just the virtue of someone else doing a thing, and maybe in an area where or in a way that I have either thought about or hope to do at some point, which still doesn't negate me from doing it ever.

There's plenty of room on the Internet for multiple voices, multiple versions of the same thing. And I was thinking back to my, say, my grandparents, and I know a lot is a lot of the past gets romanticized, and there's a bit of, like, forgetfulness about how life in my case, my grandparents were on a farm and, each winter and stuff I'm sure was a bit of, like, dicey. Are we gonna make it? Are we gonna have enough food? Are we gonna have enough money?

Way more than, the sort of multiple safety nets that I would, I and my family would fall through if things didn't go so well in winter. But, like, for my grandpa growing wheat and corn and stuff on the farm, he he might drive past, I guess, a couple of his neighbors on the way to town, their fields, and see that they've got some a bit better corn this year than his corn, and and that might bum him out. Or you might hear about another guy's tractor, another farmer's tractor that they bought, and he still has his old tractor. And I'm sure, like, everybody suffers in suffers and struggles with comparison and jealousy and lusting after the farms that other someone else has, the better grass, the better, fields, That's not so unusual. And it's just funny because I can go, days, weeks, whatever, where I could see someone else do a thing and think, oh, wow.

That's great. And then the wrong angle of something comes along and it just kinda like there's a it's like there's a foot on my brain saying in my head and squishing me down and making whatever. I could be super excited about a thing and then someone else comes along and I'm like, I guess I shouldn't be doing that thing anymore or whatever. And I think, like, that's the the privilege of, like, nothing almost nothing that I'm doing. Like, there's client work obviously and and that pays money and that helps obviously put food on our table, but, like, good stuff as a network and the podcast that we do there, I think I can say this where nobody is, like, depending on the podcast network doing well or the individual episodes they record for their livelihood.

Like, there's a lot of, like, sweat, tears, hopes, and dreams associated with maybe the podcasts that are there and some of the episodes and things as they go out. But it's not like a, yeah, life death, hopefully our kids will survive kind of venture and even like my YouTube channel, like I was talking about the past episode and courses that I do and and things like that. There's, you know, a bit of, like, a hope for some of those things to take off and maybe go somewhere, but it's not out of a, like, I'm gonna lose my home next month and my kids, if they don't do well, if weather comes and crushes the the fields of wheat that we've planted and put all our money in. And so it's just like, I guess, this is a verbal reminder for myself of how blessed I am to be living in this time and this space where I can be whiny and complaining. I like the British term whinging, I think is the the term, about, you know, my hobbies not performing as well as I think they should, and just remembering back to, like, even like, the blessing my grandparents had of having land to begin with.

Obviously, not everybody was either given or had land to grow a farm and grow crops on. And so to me now being in 2018, having this, like, woe is me spirit about, some of the podcast stuff that I'm doing or whatever in that space is pretty, I don't know, kinda silly. And, like, it's important to feel those feelings obviously and figure out where they're coming from and not just shut it down and say you're an idiot. I'm an idiot for feeling those things, but, like, wallowing in them for days and days and bringing down your family and stuff like that is probably not in the healthiest, area of the way I could live. And so, rather, I'll just vent to you guys, you folks on the podcast.

How about that? I won't take it on my kids, and my family and stuff. But, alright. I'm just getting this one barely under the wire. It's supposed to be done by twelve, and it's 12:04.

So this is your Wednesday edition of Daily(ish). Sticking to the schedule because if I had my druthers, and I didn't have the schedule, I wouldn't have recorded this episode because I was feeling down, because I was feeling frustrated, because I was you know, all the things I talked about in this episode, were affecting me and didn't wanna talk about anything because it's so sad that there's other podcasts in the world besides mine, I guess, is the the summary. Maybe that'll be the title of this episode. Thank you for listening. If you've got, questions, comments, thanks to Justin and, Lonely Bob, I think, for tweeting at me, about being sick, for the last episode.

I appreciate you taking the time to tweet at me. I appreciate if you leave a rating review for the podcast. Although those things don't really I don't know. There's some debate in my mind as to where how much they matter. I'm really, this would maybe be a topic for a future episode, but just the whole, like, social media game is really is really making me kinda, like, question what the worth is.

I I ventured into I have some clients that I'm working with with Instagram and and stuff, and then I go back and forth on like, man, it's just snake oil. And then other times I think, oh, wow. There's some real interesting opportunities here and and connections being made and things like that. I digress. I'll save that for a future episode or something or other.

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