Nov 7, 2022
Listener alert: Today's podcast is going to be a little
different from my usual format of a conversation with a featured
guest. First of all, it's not the podcast that I had planned,
featuring 3 guest interviews - and there is a story behind
this.
Instead it's about mindset - my mindset and where the attributes of
consistency, spontaneity and resilience come into play. And I 'm
recording it spontaneously so my frustration and irritation may
become obvious. So here is how this tale unfolds.
Last week, I had the fun and pleasure of being a featured podcast
host on Podapalooza, which is an action packed virtual event to
connect Podcast hosts and podcast speakers. Over the day, I enjoyed
conversations with 9 podcast guests. I planned to air 3 separate
episodes, each featuring segments from 3 speakers, that would
highlight some aspect of Growing Older Living Younger.
The first is titled " Release Your Voice , Share Your Wisdom, and
features transformation coaches. Allan Carroll, Lynn Himmelman and
Robert A. Wilson. In segments from the original interviews, Alan
shows me how to find the space between spoken words, Lynn shows how
laughter creates confidence and Robert takes me through an
induction test for susceptibility to hypnotherapy. This was the
episode planned for today.
The second, planned to air the following week is called
"Technology, Time and Being Productive, with tips and strategies
shared by Avital Spivak, an online technology coach, Yvonne McCoy,
women's business consultant and strategist, and Sheri Burke,
creator of the Reinvention playbook.
The third episode "Diverse Ways to Keep Happy and Well " features
interviews with Mary Scott, a documentary film maker who founded a
resource directory for start businesses, Adrianna Steinwedel, who
works with type 2 diabetes and Kate Culver, founder of song to
Gaia, and transformational coach.
To ensure that I do not miss an episode, I usually have a few
pre-scheduled but having been out of town attending two busy
conferences, both needing lots of follow up, I planned to schedule
the first podapalooza episode today, and be finished in time to go
to my Sunday night dance class.
And the devils of technology intervened. I have a Mac, for which I
have been meticulously keeping the desktop uncluttered and easy to
work with. Unfortunately, believing that it was for the
preservation of my computer, I had set my system to automatic
updates. because I thought this was the way to keep my computer
functioning and safe
No problem until today when lo and behold, an automatic update
occurred and anew operating system, Ventura, installed on my iMac.
completely scrambled my computer.
Somehow in its wisdom, Apple decided to download all the various
folders from my iPhone, my MacBook Air, my old Mac and my
current Mac and I was faced with a desktop where I couldn't find
anything that I needed. r.
When I launched my podcast 76 episodes ago, I made a vow to myself
of consistency. Every Monday, without fail, an episode would air.
And so far I have not missed a single week. I could not let this
week be the first. But I have prided myself that I have featured
exciting, interesting and educational guests and clearly this was
not going to happen. The demon of perfectionism and fear of
spontaneity urged me to miss a week, the disciplinarian of
consistency fought back, and finally the humility, the nurturer,
humility won out.
So dear listeners, I humbly leave you with advance indication of
the upcoming podapalooza episodes, and now I need to get to sleep
to store up energy for my battle with technology tomorrow.