Sometimes you need to record twice

I had a rough weekend a while back, my friends. One Thursday I started to feel sick with the plague my children brought home from school. And I thought I had successfully avoided it.

Still, I was feeling well enough to write scripts for one of my solo episodes before resting up. I figured I'd record it on Saturday...after I did rest.

And I did. But it was a disaster. I was rambling, coughing, getting winded, and stopping...a lot. It was not quality content.

I could have just released that, knowing I had an arbitrary deadline of Monday at 2am ET. But episodes like this —long, no single focus, hard to find a clear story — needed to be tight and helpful. This was not.

So I decided to take Sunday and rest some more, hoping Monday would see me with more energy and stamina.

Which it did! I re-recorded the entire episode and released it later than usual...but in much better shape.

You don’t always need to hit your arbitrary deadlines. And while most of this show is dedicated to helping you build a system to not be in the same position I was…well, sometimes it doesn’t work out.

When that happens, it’s better to take a moment and prioritize quality content over a deadline most people won’t notice you missed.