Commitment & Thanksgiving

Commitment to this Experiment 

There was some conflict with my co-creator this week in the he was traveling home on Monday night. This meant that he would not be around to shoot on our typical Tuesday morning. He suggested that we cancel our Tuesday video. I suggested that we shoot on Monday morning instead of Tuesday, so that we could still get an episode out. Then I learned he had too much work to help write the script for Monday. I knew that I personally needed to get an episode out on Tuesday one way or another, so I said I would write the whole script. 

This is not a story to speak ill of my co-creator. This story is a testament to making sure what happened last year on my channel, doesn't happen again. Last year I had very little accountability. I posted about four times in December, and then I ran out of steam. There was nothing pushing me to hit my deadlines for videos. So other things occupied the time instead. I basically stopped posting altogether, with the exception of one or two videos. I believe that skipping just one episode because it is difficult to do, creates a slippery slope of bad precedences. Therefore, I knew I needed to make Tuesday's show happen for me, if no one else.

Thanksgiving

We had planned weeks ago that we were going to not to an episode on Thanksgiving. Jeremy and I were both out of town and it didn't make sense to ruin the holiday by shooting and editing instead of spending time with friends. Since it was always planned to skip Thursday it didn't bother me like Tuesday did.

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