- Good morning, good life, I am working.
Absolutely working this flannel.
Today is a very special day,
I'm actually on my way out,
running late.
To be realistic, running late,
to go and record the audio book
for good morning good life.
This is exciting for a number of reasons.
First of all, I'm not
doing it myself this time.
The last time I recorded an audiobook,
I decided I was gonna do
it completely on my own
because I have audio equipment,
I do that kind of thing all the time
but it was really, really difficult
to get the thing approved by audible.
Ultimately, if you don't know
your engineering with audio,
you shouldn't try to do it yourself.
I'm so sorry for the mess, by the way,
it's a cluster over here.
So I'm excited to actually get
in the studio with somebody
who knows what their doing
so that I can just do the
thing that I'm good at,
start letting go of the
things you're not good at,
start letting go of all that
time you don't need to spend
on this kind of thing just
to save a couple bucks.
Spend money on somebody who's really good
at what they do and that's
what I'm doing today.
I'm paying somebody and their studio
to record the audiobook.
So I'm very excited about that.
I feel like we're really under the gun
at the time of this
recording there's definitely
a good amount of time
until the book comes out
but it still feels like a lot of pressure.
It feels like a lot to
do but it's also, like,
we've gotten a lot done,
we just gotta keep moving.
Every day it's like a small step toward
the book getting done every single day.
So the more we do that,
the more we're gonna be well on our way.
Lucy's gonna go to daycare,
I'm gonna drop her off.
Of course, of course, I was
like preaching to the world
how I never get sick.
Never get sick, I'm so great,
my immune system rocks.
I try and eat healthy most of the time
so I can keep things going
and I never have to take
off any work from being sick
and of course, like, this past weekend,
I got a little sniffle
and a little bit of a
throat situation right before
you're recording an audiobook,
always good, so, trying to
push through that right now.
Definitely gonna need some tea.
I might stop at Starbucks
and get their medicine ball.
Yeah.
That's a great idea.
That means I gotta go, okay.
(upbeat music)
Yeah, yeah I'll do it just
so we have another take of it
in case you like this better.
Good morning, good life.
Five simple habits to master your mornings
and upgrade your life, by
Amy Schmittauer Landino.
I'm editing the book.
Very fun set up down here.
Clearly, I am not the musician
that is typically in this audio studio
but this chair speaks to me, so.
(soft jazz music)
She went on to explain
this foreign concept to me
for a little while until
it finally computed
and led to this being the
most important conversation
I've ever had.
Okay, it's five o'clock,
I'm gonna be honest,
I was really hoping that we
were gonna be done at like three
for the day, like halfway
done through the book,
but I'm feeling a little bit nervous.
I think when this is the first
official time that the words
are being put on record,
it's a very different editing experience.
And since obviously,
I'll turn the car off
it's probably annoying,
since I'm self-publishing,
this editing process
is really on me and the people that I hire
and so I guess I was kind of
just seeing a lot of things
that didn't come through the way
I wanted it to come through.
My staff's also been looking at the words
to kind of make sure that it makes sense
and they really, they
don't just get the message,
they're also people who
might buy a book like this.
So it's great to get their feedback.
So I guess I'm just feeling
a little bit uneasy.
We made some really
significant changes today,
I'm not gonna lie.
Like there's entire sections were cut.
I don't think that I wasn't
expecting that to happen,
I didn't think that they
were going to happen
the way they did, but, you
know, it is what it is.
It's been a really good experience so far,
we're halfway done with the
book, which is a good thing.
Which means if we get the
other half done tomorrow
and it goes more smoothly,
then I don't have to keep recording.
To be honest, it's like
the most tedious process.
Not only trying to sound
like yourself on audio
but you also, like, I'm probably
over articulating right now
because of the habit
that I've been in all day
to make sure that I finish
my words completely.
It is so annoying.
Cause I'm like, I don't
really talk like that
but you gotta talk like that.
So anyway, I just think
I'm gonna go through
a lot of the stuff that we did today
and make sure I feel really good about it.
I don't mind making it shorter of a book,
I think any time you make
something a quicker read,
it's more appealing.
It's also a pretty good size length book.
So I'm not that worried about that
but I just want to make
sure that everything's good
with what we did today
and some of the things we learned today
are hopefully not going
to happen tomorrow.
So I have a little bit of homework tonight
which is great but it would've been better
if I had left at three and not five, so.
Sad.
It's a sad moment but
we're gonna get through it.
If we do things right,
we'll be done tomorrow.
That's what I'm looking forward to.
So great that this gets to
be like the end of my job.
When I'm done recording it and it's done,
like that's the end of my
job with the audiobook.
Like, except for, you know,
everything else, I guess.
Really the whole thing's my job
because I'm self publishing.
Amy, literally everything
is your job, oh my god.
Gotta love owning all the rights
to your book though, right?
Yeah, self publishing for the win.
Whatever.
Lucy, there you go.
Good morning, good life.
Excuse my coziness because
it is a little bit cold
and I'm just trying to
not be cold right now.
You can probably even hear my heat is on.
Don't even care about the audio right now,
just trying to be cozy.
Lucy's cozy.
Lu, are you sleepy?
So, yesterday after I got home
from recording the audiobook
for the first day, I
was doing a lot of work
on the manuscript just to get
things where I want them to be
to finish the book today.
I really need to finish it today.
If that doesn't happen, I'm
gonna be kind of annoyed
cause it's just a whole additional day
of having to go to a studio
and finish some things.
I'm not trying to rush through it,
I just know that it can get
done in this period of time.
So I really want to do that.
But last night was also really stressful
because I think, you know, I'm
just learning more and more
about building a bigger team.
I'm just making sure that I
communicate well with them
and I think that there was
like a little miscommunication
of like how within reach that I could be
while I was recording the book yesterday
and so I think that there was
some kerfuffles in the office
that I wish didn't happen but
it was not that big a deal
but was more just me bugged out
that the people in my office
were trying not to bug me
cause I was recording the audiobook
and they probably needed to talk to me
and so, that's just like a
major learner's curve for me
right now is I'm trying to be efficient,
I want people to know I'm
trying to be efficient,
but I don't want them to feel
like they can't talk to me.
So definitely a lot of things
I had to deal with last night
like literally didn't even find out about
until eight o'clock at night
and I was like I don't understand
how did I miss all of this?
And in the meantime,
I'm just trying to get
this audiobook recorded
so that it comes out somewhat
soon after the book launch
cause I know the way Amazon
is, they usually take a while
to get their approvals done.
Especially on the audible side
cause they're very meticulous
about that audio, they want
it to be really good for you
and I love that.
So gotta get it done so
I can get it done for you
but I also just, I want
it to be really good.
So there's a balance.
I also don't want people to
feel like they can't talk to me
while I'm doing all of this
but I guess it's just, yeah.
Communication, man.
I talk a lot about it in the book.
Communication is key.
Even if you just have to
communicate to your dog
that it's not time to play,
cause you're doing your morning routine.
So I'm probably not
gonna spend a lot of time
recording today.
While I'm doing the audiobook,
I want to stay focused on
the game and get it done.
If this is a harsh
transition, I do apologize,
but I'll keep you posted on how we do.
I know that there's a lot
of people who are excited
about the book but are absolutely
more of a listener type of learner
and that is why I want
to get this done for you.
So that's the plan today,
I'm gonna do it, baby.
Yeah.
Let's do this.
Let's get the audiobook done, please.
Also, like an increase of 10
degrees wouldn't hurt anybody.
But whatever.
Okay we did it, we got
through the whole thing.
I am so excited.
Thank you, Chris, for doing this for us!
- Thank you!
- I will link to his stuff.
I am so glad we got done cause
he literally has to be done
in like five minutes and
I was like trying to rush,
but trying to do a good job.
Corinne, what do you think of the book?
- Amazing.
- Corinne's the first, I think,
first official reader of the book
cause you just heard, like, and Chris,
but like.
- I loved it.
- Yay!
- My wife will love it.
- I'm excited for your wife to read it.
- My wife already does
some of those things.
- Oh my god, that's amazing.
- Gonna send it to all my friends.
- Best holiday gift ever!
True.
Hey, are you struggling to find time
for the things you love?
Feel like you're constantly on the go
but taking care of everyone else first?
You are not alone and
you deserve so much more!
Not only are you capable of
taking on this challenge,
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That resourcefulness is all
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Good morning, good life.
It's my new book and it launches
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More details at
"www.goodmorninggoodlife.com".
All right, we've got
a little bit of a glow
over here going on.
It's not the best, it's not the best.
I wrote about that occasion in
my first book, book, my god.
Blog, blog, book, book.
