An Unexpected Day of Entrepreneurship. Shocker.

Today did not go as planned. But, if I’m being honest with myself, I was kind of expecting days like this. I’m an entrepreneur, right?

I got up this morning with one thing on my mind: my 10am massage. Yes, a beautifully relaxing Thai massage to start my Tuesday. Perfect.

And, to top it all of, it only cost $7. Seriously.

After my massage, I made my way back to my office and stopped to get some fried rice. While eating, I worked on a crossword. I love the crossword. It’s so relaxing, and it really gets my mind working.

Then, around 12:30pm, it was time to get to down to business. I only had a few things on my to-do list today:

1. Write my Medium post,
2. Work on 2016 content plan,
3. Figure out Bluehost affilate stuff, and
4. Practice editing a podcast.

Seems simple, right? Only 4 items on my list seems like something I could knock out in just a few hours.

Wrong. So, so wrong.

I started first with learning how to edit a podcast. (More on launch date later!) I already had the recording and I knew where to find the royality-free music I wanted to use. That’s where it went down the drain.

I started by attempting to open Adobe Audition. But, Adobe wasn’t cooperating. It wasn’t cooperating so much that I had to uninstall everything, restart, re-install Creative Cloud, restart, and then download Audition.

What a mess.

This took some time, but it all worked. I was back on track. So, I started watching a YouTube video about how to edit a podcast. (Seems logical, right?) I added the call of the actual podcast to one of the tracks and then went to add the music into a separate track.

I found the music I wanted online and downloaded it. But, it wasn’t downloading as an MP3 file. It was downloading as a text file.

TEXT. What?!!?

Well, that clearly isn’t going to work.

I’m a solutions-girl, so I went on a hunt for more license-free music that downloaded properly. After spending nearly 40 minutes listening to 6-second clips of random songs, I finally had to have a reality check with myself.

You can’t spend all day doing this. Pick one of the next 3 songs and MOVE ON.

So I did. Is it perfect? Who knows?! Is any podcast intro/outro music perfect? I was peppy, and I liked it. Plus, it downloaded properly, so I was sold.

Ok, so now I’m back in the editing process again. I have Audition working, and I have my music. I continued watching this video. It teaches me some good tricks, and I start to feel good about my editing technique. But, I knew I had to learn more. I wanted to learn how to cut out dead space and all of the “Uhs.”

I went to take a quick break to get more water when I realize that it’s almost 6pm. 6pm!?! Seriously? I’ve been doing NOTHING for 5+hours. What about the rest of my to-do list?

But, now that I think about it, I am getting hungry. And dehydrated. And, honestly, I have kind of lost focus and motivation for the day. I needed a break.

Let’s be honest though, it’s after 6pm. I’m not going to take a “break.” I’m going to shut it down for the day.

I know I said I expected days where things would go unexpectedly, but geez. This was a little crazy. I mean, it took me 4 hours to practice editing a podcast. And, I haven’t even finished the whole call. And, I don’t even have all of the skills down yet.

<sigh>

The good news is that tomorrow is coming. I can tackle my to-do list more feverishly tomorrow.

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