Hey, everybody. Happy November. I can't believe we are in November. October flew by really fast. I addressed that a couple of times on this show.
But I am jumping in today recording this to talk about the work hangover. I just shipped my next LinkedIn learning course. It's an update to one of my current courses, PHP for WordPress, where I wanted to update it for PHP 8 and the block editor stuff and like what the block editor means for PHP, which is honestly not as much as I thought it meant. But I am, for a number of reasons, struggling this morning to really get in the right headspace. Part of it is, you know, current events are looming large. For me, I'm more anxious about current events than I have been in a long time. My poor, poor Yankees forgot how to play baseball when it mattered most and lost the World Series, which is an incredible bummer for me. And, you know, as I record this yesterday, it was Halloween. And so I was I've been staying up later and have not been eating very well because there's candy literally in every inch of my house. Not literally. It's everywhere, though. And so today I really need to buckle down and do a few things.
But I've got the work hangover. I expounded, expounded? I spent a bunch of energy over the last week working on the LinkedIn learning course, like really working on it. Script writing and then recording and creating slides and writing code and all that fun stuff. If you don't know, I've I've done this for members, but if I really focus, I can do a LinkedIn learning course in about two weeks. They're a hellish two weeks and I prefer not to do them that way. But somehow it always shakes out that way.
Now, my next course is like a full rewrite of a near five hour course. So it's going to take more than two weeks and I'm going to have to manage my time better. But for this one, it was a simple update. And so I wrote the scripts over a couple of days and then I recorded them all yesterday. But anyway, the point is, I am struggling this morning because all of my mental energy basically was going towards this one project and now it's over.
And I struggle most at the start of projects like building the momentum. So I'm thinking about that today. And what I'll probably do is do a few small tasks and then it's the weekend. I fear I'm going to be more distracted than normal next week, which is upsetting because it hasn't been a very productive several weeks for me. But what I'm going to try to do today is check a few things off of my list, a couple of easy wins. Aaron's working this weekend, and I don't generally work the weekends anyway. So it's not really about building momentum. It's more about resetting the clock or like resetting my headspace a little bit.
And then, you know, doing the startup routine on Sunday so I can really have a clear vision for the coming week. So that's what I'm thinking about this morning, the work hangover. I'll probably do a newsletter about this. I've also been thinking a lot about how I'm going to manage this with the podcast workflows podcast and streamline solopreneur with the rebrand. I don't want to have a podcast named after myself. I think that is both self aggrandizing and doesn't matter for me. Like most people don't know who I am. And so a podcast with my own name doesn't matter. But, you know, with the personal brand shift, I am thinking more about how to consolidate streamline my content strategies to really focus on the things that will make the most impact in my business. So you go early November thoughts. And I guess going into the holiday thoughts and going into the weekend thoughts all rolled into one.
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