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Once you start to appreciate that nothing is ever finished, you'll live a little easier.

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Music and links from this episode

1. Mayr Hayastan/Dilijan feat. Flower Gear (VDCJ Mix part 1) by Diezel Tea
2. I hate mashed potatoes by Pousse Mousse
3. Drift Away (instrumental) by Pachyderm

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1. As designers
2. We have a habit of being hyper critical
3. It’s natural to look back at a thing you’ve made
4. And think
5. Well, that could have been better
6. And maybe I could have tweaked that a bit
7. It’s normal to think like this
8. And once you accept one thing, it’s easier to deal with it too.
9. Everything is a work in progress.
10. Fast food
11. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
12. I’ve got something to admit to
13. I’m the worst finisher in the world
14. Now before you start giggling
15. I mean I’m rubbish at finishing anything
16. I’m an ideas person through and through
17. I think of an idea, and I can see it all the way through to completion
18. …
19. In my mind
20. I’m an amazing thinker
21. And I’m amazing at getting excited about new ideas too
22. And then I’m amazing at staying up until 3am to get started on it
23. Because of the way I think, I always start with the names
24. Then the branding
25. In fact, I was doing this only last night until about 12.30am
26. Way past my bed time on a school night
27. Being able to start a million projects and finish none of them used to really annoy me
28. I used to inwardly shout at myself
29. Why can’t you finish anything?
30. In fact, the only thing I’m good at finishing is 365 days challenges
31. And some of them I’ve failed at too
32. I used to think like this a lot, and it started to get me down
33. I decided the only way to get out of it, was to take a break from producing so much stuff
34. So a couple of years ago, I took a while off
35. As you can probably guess, it didn’t work
36. I was approaching this all wrong
37. And then it clicked what was so wrong
38. I never realised, everything is a work in progress
39. And you should be looking at doing lots of little things, often
40. I was looking at all the things I wanted to do
41. All the ideas I had
42. All the projects I wanted to complete
43. I want to learn guitar
44. I want to lift this much weight
45. Run this far
46. Do this thing or that
47. I was always looking at the end goal
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