December 22, 2019

|

Permanently Moved 🔊 | Year End 🎆

S2E38

Wrapping up the year. Remember: It’s up to each and everyone of us to bring light to the world.

See you in 2020.

—
Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded in one hour by @thejaymo

Website: https://www.thejaymo.net/
Podcast: http://permanentlymoved.online
Zine: http://startselectreset.com

Show Supporter 📻

£5 MONTHLY 👏

Quarterly zine; my gift to you ✉️

Subscribe 🔊

Wherever you get your podcasts

EOY 2019

Well, that’s this year done. 38 episodes. Nearly every week from when I restarted after my travels in early 2019. Asia and Australia already seem like a lifetime ago. 

I’m not sure when this episode is going to even make it online honestly. There’s been no internet in my flat for 3 days so far. With no indication of when it’s going to be fixed, maybe Sunday, maybe Monday. But I’ll post it the first opportunity I get to connect my laptop to the full fat internet. The outage was caused by a catastrophic incident involving a foundation drilling machine catching the main fiber trunk for south west London. It basically wrapped the cable around and around the drill bit pulling it out of all the equipment at the exchange. I’ve seen photos on twitter and it’s pretty wild. Anyways. 

First of all: I’d like to say thank you to you all for listening this year. 

It was 18 episodes ago during episode 1920 when I did the episode 50 sprint review. At that time I said the podcast was closing in on the psychologically significant number of 10,000 all time downloads and I was excited about it. 

Now at the end of this year, I think this little one man band of a podcast will be closing out 2019 with about 15,000 downloads this year alone. So thank you so much again to everyone that is listening. 

If you know anything about podcasting as an industry there’s two metrics that people talk about. Depending on who’s counting. If you get 127 or 156 downloads in the first 30 days of an episode launching that puts you in the top 50% of all podcasts in the world. Permanently Moved now clears both those numbers in the first 72 hours which is remarkable. So I thank you again and again to everyone who is listening. 

In addition to making this podcast Issue one of my zine, start select reset has been downloaded over 2.5 thousand times since I put it online in september. Which is also remarkable. 

It’s not all about the numbers obviously. But I do think its important to share them as we’re away from the metric’d and gamified world of social media. 

What’s far more important is that there’s lateral conversation between peoples blogs and projects. It’s about forging connections. I don’t think there’s anything more pleasurable than web surfing a well linked blog post.

Longtime listeners and friends will know that I started making this show to see if I could win the battle against the ‘perfect is the enemy of done’ tendencies I’ve always struggled with. After two years making this show, and also 2 years of blogging weekly, at the end of 2019. I am pleased to report that I’m largely over it. 

I’ve made some shows this year that I am extremely proud of, others are ok, and there’s a few that I’ve quite frankly kinda already forgotten about. You probably have too. But that’s all part of it. It’s something that I’m now ok with and getting used to it. I’ve never been in this position before. 

I’m not going to be labour the point as I’ve spoken about it. I don’t know how many times, but the only way to ‘get gud’ is to get practicing. 

What is interesting to me right now is what’s next. I did a todo list episode back in September 1925. On the space weather I said “What gets done between now and December will become the new normal in your life” it set the stage as it were for Jupiter In Cap. I’ve set myself some interesting ‘new normals’. 

Looking back at the script for that episode. Of all the things I talked about wanting to do, i’ve half finished 4 of them. 

With the turning of the new decade, and the optimism that always comes with a new year, I’m wondering what’s next. What new year’s resolutions or behaviour changes would i like to change or improve next year? 

The main thing next year isn’t so much about executing, but about delivering. 

I have mountains of things that aren’t finished that I’ve started this year, and 2020 as an astral theme is applying hard graft to deliver the dreams and ambitions of Jupiter . Which is a roundabout way of saying I need to try much harder to finish things. In my professional life with skills and training in project management and business operations I am very good at getting people to deliver. In my personal life not so much. The new normal is to continue making and creating things that bring me joy. But also the new normal has to be that I finish and deliver other things I’m investing energy into. You might disagree, but in my mind there is absolutely no point in creating things if they are never going to see the light of day.

That is the main thing I’m going to focus on next year creatively. Is to finish what I start. Being more disciplined with my time and energy and directing towards things I enjoy. What I don’t enjoy is spending hours and hours on social media watching the world scroll by. 

On that note.

The world around us is going to get way way worse before it gets better. So my other resolution for next year is to make sure that i’m only focused on doing things that bring me and others around me joy.

It’s up to each and everyone of us to bring light to the world. To chase the shadows out wherever we find them. It might be gloomy outside in the world but the time spent with others in personal relationships should be 

Hope you have a good one. Speak to you next year.