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