27. Do It Now

In the Fall of 2019 I started a podcast and called it “Making Things Happen”. It was just me talking about similar topics to what is now this blog called “Coffee With Cody”. If you go to the “Coffee With Cody” podcast page on Apple Podcast or Spotify, you can see the 12 episodes I uploaded between 2019 and 2020.

This was around the time I was introduced to the world of personal development, motivational speakers, podcasting and entrepreneurship. That world was one I not only wanted to be part of but one I wanted to contribute to, so I hit record on my iPhone speaker and created a 20 minute introduction episode.

It was something I knew I would want to do at some point, so I just did it without a plan or even a script. Naturally, with no structure, it fizzled out and sat idle in podcast players until its rebirth as “Coffee With Cody” 27 weeks ago. Like before I initially started, I knew it was something that I wanted to come back to at some point. There was nothing in particular I was waiting for, so eventually I just told myself I’ve got to do it now.

The idea of do it now is one that needs to be looked at on what you might describe as a macro and also a micro level. Here’s what I mean: