Welcome to Episode 93 of my podcasts a view from the crow's nest. It is Sunday the sixth of September 2020, and not much to say today, you'll be possibly relieved to know. So took a day off like a full day off as I write not working today. And I spent my morning tidying and cleaning and then had a lovely lunch mother in law made fresh, fresh doughnuts. I three of them with jam inside. Very very fatty boom thoroughly enjoyed that had a bit of Spumante with it, and had a sugar and booze coma on the couch for a half hour. And then I did some housework and then made sure everybody tidy it up because the house is a mess. And then it got through to the evening, and we watched the last part of the two towers Lord of the Rings sec of film. And then, I really couldn't be bothered to do my daily noodle. But I thought, you know what, I don't want to lose the, you know, lose it for nothing. So I did like a one minute one pretty poor it was but you know I continued it, I did it, and now I'm doing this. So it's a pretty short day, very short podcast nothing really to say other than I guess what I did do today is. I was reading and thinking about, certainly in the morning about our position our situation it's very easy for us as we have done in the last few months to think of in terms of scarcity, with in terms of, you know, we need to bring money in we need this we need that the coronavirus is doing this is doing that, you know, victim victim blah blah blah. And actually, we're in a position of abundance we're in a position of great opportunity. And it was a reminder, this morning my thinking was you know we need to do something about that. So, part of the thought was that we take a week's holiday. Each month. That is to say, rather than trying to get the days off during the week which I'm not really doing you know we go away the whole point of us leaving London a year ago was to go worldschooling to travel with the kids and coronavirus shut that down but actually we're in a position where we can do some travelling and still work so we, you know, weeks holiday, even just not doing anything as a weeks travelling I mean exploring some places whilst also obviously doing a bit of work. And while we're around. So that was one idea. And then that evolved into you know maybe coming back to the UK over Christmas for a few weeks or a month or so. And a couple of places but long story short, it was the making do with what we've got. Making you know, do what you can with what you have right now, basically, and not feel like you're coming from a place of scarcity or fear. But instead, from a place of positivity abundance proactiveness etc. And the second part of my thinking this morning was just a reminder, I was reading, Derek sybers, I just finished his book you and your music and then started his other book, no or hell yeah I think it's called, and the end chapter one in the beginning Chapter The other even though they're different. Basically book ended very well. And long story, long and the short of it is, you should do you know if something doesn't excite you don't do it. Basically, even if somebody. People with success in that field or whatever tell you that's what you should do. If you don't feel excited by it don't do it so he gives an example for example, as a musician somebody says oh you must be on this app let's say Tick Tock he didn't say Tick Tock blsa Tick tock, if it doesn't excite you to get on the app and do it then don't do it, because you're just going to go down a hole that doesn't really fulfil you doesn't help but it's going to take time away from anything else. So the logical conclusion of that is, if it doesn't excite you don't do it but find somebody else who, it does excite he'll find a way of getting them to do the obvious ways paying them. Naturally, but there might be some less obvious ways you can do some work for them they do some work for you if you don't have the money the funds, whatever, but equally. There are plent
