I’ve been talking about starting a podcast for almost two years. I had ideas. I had plans. I had the equipment. However, somehow, I still hadn’t recorded an episode.
Instead, I kept finding more things to prepare. My website. My podcast page. My content strategy. Even which WordPress theme I should use. All perfectly reasonable things to think about.
Except none of them needed to be figured out before I pressed record.
It reminded me of a family trip to Las Vegas years ago, when I was completely enthusiastic about riding the zip line over Fremont Street, right up until the moment I actually had to get on it.
In this first episode of Quiet Conversations About Freedom, I’m thinking about the surprisingly blurry line between preparation and procrastination, why productive procrastination can be so difficult to recognize, and the imaginary prerequisites we sometimes create between ourselves and the things we say we want.
And, appropriately enough, this episode is what happened when I finally stopped preparing and started.
