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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 314: You have to trick yourself

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Arts, Crafts, Education, How To, Leisure, Design

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about trying to find a groove and avoid distraction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's so we're starting an hour later today and I thought awesome. I'll get more sleep.

0:08.8

Nope, or I guess I did get more sleep, but I'm still just as tired as I was at funny story.

0:16.7

I was like, yeah, I get to sleep in one more hour today, but Kelly's car broke down,

0:21.0

so I had to take her to work. And Kelly works at like some ridiculous hour in the morning.

0:26.4

Same.

0:27.2

Mm-hmm.

0:29.2

And I stopped right up until the second you called me.

0:33.3

You deserve some sleep.

0:35.6

Now there's nothing to do. I told you I was just, no, there's nothing to do. I'm like,

0:39.5

walking around in the backyard and circles like, okay, let me go feed the chickens again.

0:46.0

Is it weird? Like just all the sudden?

0:48.5

No, I know it was going to be, it's like that vacuum. It's like all of a sudden. It's like,

0:53.8

there's like that vacuum of criss, and there's nothing to do. I mean, I have plenty to do.

0:58.2

Like I have to, I'm rebuilding the porch in the front, so I have plenty of things to take care of.

1:02.1

And so every time I find myself with like, idle, I'm like, this thing's to do.

1:08.9

Go, go do those things, this thing's to do. Go clean up that part of the yard, this thing's to do.

1:13.9

But because there's no deadlines, related to the show and all the various different deadlines that

1:20.4

we dealt with everything. It's like, okay, today I know today we got to finish this by the end of the day.

1:24.0

Tomorrow we got to face that by the end of the day. You know, all that urgency is removed.

1:31.7

So I just find myself like scrolling Instagram and then go, oh wait, I forgot I got to put a

1:35.8

letwood in the fire, you know, this scrap wood or, oh, I got to go. So that was yesterday.

1:41.5

I did get a lot done yesterday, but there are a lot of like nonsense breaks.

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