404 Trying Not to Slip Back Into Grind Mode

Modern Craftsman

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Some seasons get heavy fast, even when you built the business to avoid that. This episode gets into Tyler's house build, money pressure, family guilt, decision fatigue, and trying not to fall back into the old grind-at-all-costs version of yourself.

Show Notes:
00:00 When It Feels Impossible to Move Forward
00:12 Guest Fell Through
04:05 Calling the Vendor
06:00 Life Hits 110 MPH
08:14 Avoiding Old Grind Habits
10:03 Carrying the Weight After the Job
13:17 Cutting the List Down
15:38 Decision Fatigue on the House Build
22:26 Just Make Progress
29:35 When Hard Things Motivate You
33:16 Sleep, Work & Second Winds
39:11 Family, Guilt & Being Present
42:06 Opening the Conversation

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You get to a point with the amount of information, the amount of conflicting information, and the
0:04.5	decisions that you have to make, that it literally feels impossible to move forward.
0:12.1	Welcome back to the modern craftsmen, boys and girls. We had a guest, unfortunately,
0:18.2	fall through today. Well, unfortunately is probably a poor choice
0:22.9	at words because we reschedule for next week. So we will have him on next week. That's which is
0:27.9	totally fine. It was just last and it was no, nobody's fault, but we were not prepared to be
0:34.2	recording a solo podcast today. But we did.
0:37.9	And I think it went well.
0:39.7	And Tyler was like, I have something I want to talk about.
0:42.4	Like immediately.
0:43.4	Right out the gate.
0:45.7	So we're going to talk about that.
0:48.2	So we'll just get into it.
0:49.8	Yeah.
0:50.0	I think you guys will be able to relate to it.
0:52.2	Absolutely.
0:52.8	It's something that I haven't felt for a long time.
0:54.9	I think I've structured my business to not feel like this,
0:58.3	but I've taken on some, there's some undertakings that I'm handling right now
1:04.2	that are making me feel as though work is very overwhelming.
1:08.7	And try and understand how to cope with that. I think most people
1:12.5	listening to this can probably understand and relate to what I'm feeling in one shape,
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