Day 2,977

Growth:

Honest and constructive feedback is so awesome and greatly appreciated!!! Huge shout out to my buddy Rick for pointing out a great way to improve the quality of my audiobook recording today! His idea helped a ton and in more ways than I expected! It was a very insightful reminder of how helpful it is to share ideas with someone to help them improve. Thanks for the inspiration dude!!!

Appreciation:

The recording is now done. I’d set a goal of recording the entirety of my book while Gavin and Becky were in France and I’ve now accomplished that goal. The sense of accomplishment is tremendous! There’s still so much work ahead including editing, possibly re-recording sections, and setting up the files to upload, but the heaviest of the lifting is now complete. There are now approximately 7 hours of recordings done. Whew – I am feeling it! Both emotionally and physically I am feeling exhausted, but it is the exhaustion of hard work being completed, and the goal being done!

Bring on the extra work, all the stuff that will take a ton of time, and the next steps – that’s all good. Today I’m grateful for setting a big goal and knocking it out!

Presence:

Wowza, recording my book for audio was rough in the best possible ways. Re-living so many difficult moments brought back so many feels, but largely they were all good – just very intense. Spending the better part of two days reading my book into a microphone re-opened the chest of memories I’d packed away a while ago and hadn’t opened this completely for a long time. That said, what a profound way to remind me of the why behind this project! Getting lost in those memories while recording in a tiny little dark space was wild. Though the work seems like it should have been rather mundane I caught myself being in a flow state almost the entire time.

Thanks!!!