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I begin each day with my "Mixergy Morning". Not only do I gain deep insight, I'm also provided with enormous amounts of motivation for the day.

I evangelize Andrew's stuff to the NYC Startup community all the time. It's like one of those secret clubs in Chinatown which you need the password. I just tell them : Mixergy

I am a Mixergy fan, but I have been debating about canceling.

It is a great show, and Andrew is wonderful. That's the problem. It's easier for me to listen to other people's success stories than to write my own. I am concerned that I spend too much time learning how to be successful and not enough time actually working on being successful. Rarely at this point do I feel that the barrier is because there is some knowledge that I did not know, but rather because of failure to ship. It's possible that my perception is wrong, but obviously I do not think so, or else I would change my perception.

If I was able to contain it to one hour a week, it would be fine. But the problem is finding that one interview that is most optimal this week. He turns out too many high-quality interviews even to evaluate.

It's hard for me to evaluate objectively what is the right balance between genuinely helpful consumption and genuinely valuable production. I seem to oscillate quite a bit from week to week, and so I wonder to what extent my opinion is reactionary. But my thinking lately is that I do not make effective use of the resources I have available to me. Improving the quality of the signal is only good if it makes a net improvement at some point, it is no good if the signal runs straight into earth ground. I am not saying that consumption is non-useful at all, we are at different stages, etc. I am just wondering if I have personally been overestimating the utility of consumption to the detriment of production.

I also do not have a commute, so I do not have the "how do I make use of this dead time?" question that swombat seems to have. That may play a role in my analysis.

Drew, what's your biggest challenge with shipping?

I've listened to Andrew's interviews several times. He's the best at prodding to get an answer in the nicest way possible, and sometimes that leads to the most insightful comments from the entrepreneurs.