Daily(ish)

I often wait for someone else’s permission or invitation before pursuing ideas, even though collaboration isn’t always required, and that has limited what I’m willing to attempt on my own. I also realize that to make an idea real, I sometimes need a vehicle to carry it. Like having an actual bike if I want to ride.

The episode art is just because I couldn't get the U2 lyric / quote out of my brain while talking about it.

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00:00 Intro
00:42 Waiting For Permission
01:23 Need A Vehicle
01:56 Daily Podcast As Bike
02:39 Think Bigger Experiments
03:04 Peanut Butter Outro
03:23 Contact And Subscribe

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Chris
I edit podcasts so you don't have to. I live in Saskatchewan so you don't have to?

What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Chris: Welcome to Dailyish
for September 16th, 2026.

That's a Wednesday, if you're kinda
unsure of what day I am talking

about when I say I'm recording this.

I'm recording an episode every day for
this is my 50th year on the planet.

Uh, listener Nick let me know that the
date helps because episodes or, where I

am in the challenge doesn't really give
a good frame of reference for where the

episode is actually happening in time
and space, which I agree with I want to

talk about a shower thought today that,
I don't know if it's all that deep, but

it helps me sort of process and think
about this challenge, this podcast.

I need it to be even bigger, my creativity
in general I spend a lot of time with

ideas for things, not just podcasts, but
ideas of things I'd like to do, things

I'd like to achieve, things I'd like
to try, things I'd like to be a part

of, and there's some sort of underlying
thing that I should go to therapy for

that makes me wait around for someone
to ask me to be able to do that thing.

And sometimes genuinely I do need
to have other people involved, and I

really love the idea of collaborating
with people on projects and ideas

and music and writing and whatever.

But waiting for permission from other
people to be able to do that thing has

really limited me in terms of what I will
challenge or let myself do on my own.

So that's part one.

Part two is realizing that sometimes I
need, and you might need, a vehicle for

an idea to be able to actually do it

So for me, in talking podcasts,
I often have ideas for podcasts.

Not necessarily a fully fleshed out
whole version of what a show might

be, but ideas of what it could be.

And I might even take it to drawing it
up, writing up a description, trying

out a few episodes recorded locally.

Might even publish some, but with the
idea that I'm not really doing it.

It doesn't have to happen.

It's not a fully built vehicle
to take this idea and run with

And so in a lot of ways, this
show, this challenge of recording

an episode every day for a year
has given me the vehicle to try.

Try ideas with, plan for an episode in
the future, since I know I have it and

it will happen, and I have this vehicle
to do that with when that day comes.

And so something I hope I can do
over the course of this show is

recognize that, first of all, not
every episode is gonna be amazing.

Not every episode is gonna
be up to some standard that I

might have for the overall show.

Often, if I'm being honest, it's
probably gonna be rushed or late

or even forgotten some days.

And really, it's the body of work
as the entire show that's ultimately

gonna be important, mainly to me But
what having this podcast does is it

gives me a vehicle to try things with.

So as a little sub-challenge to the
main challenge of recording podcast

episodes every day, I'm trying to
push myself to think bigger now that I

have this vehicle to try things with.

What might I wanna try?

How might I wanna experiment with podcast
ideas that I've had when before I didn't

really have a vehicle to try them with?

In the most literal sense, if I wanted
to ride a bike, be a bike rider,

go on a bike ride, I need a bike.

And so in this metaphorical
sense, this podcast is my bike

Anyways, I'm gonna stop there 'cause
the peanut butter sandwich that

I made for myself as a reward for
finishing this episode is sitting

here staring at me in the face.

do peanut butter sandwiches
have faces and eyes?

Anyways, your thoughts on
that and many other things.

Do you have a bike?

Do you ride a metaphorical bike?

Do you have a literal bike?

Hey Chris, just stop this episode already.

As always, feel free to reply to
the post on social media where I

told you about this episode, or you
can email me chris.enns@gmail.com.

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Thanks for listening.

Have a great day.

Bye.