Being kind to yourself, despite how busy you may be

Published: Sun, 05/15/22

Hey , this will be one of those rare weekends when I email twice in the same weekend.

I wanted to share with you the moment I hit the 'Launch' button on the Battle Panda Kickstarter yesterday.

I dropped my child to his morning activity, next door was a park, quite a nice one.

I wasn't at my desk and double monitor set up and, strictly speaking, I didn't have enough time to actually launch the project.

I had only an hour and a half to launch the project, a quarter of which was making final adjustments to the page.

This is the moment I hit the 'Launch' button.

The moment I hit 'Launch' on the Battle Panda Kickstarter

I had no power supply and so the laptop ran out of juice fifteen minutes before the end of my allotted launch time.

Wait for the perfect moment; be prepared to wait a long time

I knew the constraints that I was under that morning and had to decide whether to launch in an imperfect way or to wait minimum 2 weeks and then hope conditions were better to launch.

Truth is I wouldn't know whether the conditions would be any better in 2 weeks, I don't know if the conditions would ever be just right to launch.

I decided to go ahead and make the best of it that I could.

The only moment we have is the current moment

In previous Kickstarter launches I was all hustle, being able to work at my laptop easily for 4 to 6 hours at a time without a break.

For my first Kickstarter for Digitopia I was away on a business trip so had every evening free to hustle - but life has changed in the four and a bit years since then.

The lesson I learnt yesterday, is despite being busy (launching a Kickstarter is hugely time and effort intensive), that I will only get this moment to enjoy the sun, to enjoy the park with my child right there and then.

Instead of rushing back home to hustle on Twitter and Instagram, we decided instead to play, enjoy the lake

and have lunch in the park.

So what is the point of this story?

Be kind to yourself

We will always be busy, we will always have things to do, but if we are kind to ourselves and give ourselves a break, we can actually do a better job in a shorter space of time than when we continue to grind and hustle non-stop.

We know to be kind to others, let's also make a deliberate effort to be kind to ourselves.

Early bird offer closes tonight

Despite not being able to hustle every minute, we got off to a great start yesterday on the Battle Panda Kickstarter.

If you backed on day 1, thank you so much, if you didn't get a chance to back yet then just a quick reminder that the Early Bird Reward tier will close tonight.

I've got rewards in both digital and paperback at all budget levels - all the details are on the Kickstarter page here - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/farhanq/battle-panda-1-big-trouble-in-panda-city

Get your Battle Panda Rewards

Have a great rest of your Sunday.

Thanks

Farhan

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