Welcome to Episode 187 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest and it is Wednesday 30th of December 2020. We are one day from New Year's Eve, which means we're two days from the New Year. The new decade, which means well I guess new decade was 2020, but I'm looking at it as 2021 because that hopefully will mean all change after what has been a challenging year for I think a lot of people, US included. I've got to my podcast yesterday I was super tired went to bed couldn't sleep till four Go figure. So I miss training this morning. And as I will train tomorrow morning, and then Today was a bit of a slow day, all through. And I guess the reason. One of the reasons is because the last couple of days a bit since Christmas I've stopped doing music, because I had client stuff to do just before Christmas. And then it was Christmas and had a few days off, and then when it came back from Christmas I had admin stuff bit of client stuff to do. And trying to get myself organised further. The new the new me for next year. As far as my creative output is concerned and there's, there's a phrase that I'm using or a very simple idea that I'm using which is A, B, C, D, E, and it means a few things and I put it together myself so I'm quite proud of it. ABCD, it means baby steps, you know, all, all great, you know, novels are made up of paragraphs and chapters and paragraphs and sentences and words and letters everything comes from the letters. Anything you do starts from just those basic building blocks. It means doing things in order, you can't be going out of order, and trying to do things, you know, can't run before you can walk etc etc. So you have to go through those steps. So, I've got a bit of frustration the last couple of days which are going to in a second, but I have to go through that frustration because I've got to do these things in order, and it's to do with photography, which I'll come back to and what it also means is a always b b c creating D distributing and E engaging, always be creating distributing and engaging and again it's in that order, you know, ideally, I want to create something that should be my main focus creating the music creating new stuff. Then I want to be distributing it because this has been a big problem of mine, or but no problem. This has been something that I haven't done as much as I definitely could have done, and is the new me for next year is distributing, I'm going to distribute a lot more of what I'm creating and in various different ways and engaging, because it's no good, particularly in the modern world to be just creating stuff and distributing it you need to engage with people find out what they like if they don't like it, find the people that do like it they're your tribe etc etc. So, ABCDE. So the last couple of days have been frustrating because I've been focused in terms of distributing getting content out on creating a little content plan for next year. I'm going to release a new photo I think I said in my portfolio I'm building. The initial parts of a portfolio for my photography on my website, and then I'll put a new photo in each week, which will be available for people to buy. And I will also be sharing stuff onto Instagram with a bit more regularity I've started an Instagram photography profile, specifically for photography. I'm also going to be releasing a new song, each week just an acoustic version of a lie, a new song, a song, could be an old song could be a new song but a live performance. Suddenly I don't think I've released any live performances in years, it seems like. Certainly not my own music. So those two things, amongst other things are going to be, you know, are going to be high on my agenda for next year. So with the photography what has been looking at today is trying to get my head on the last couple of days getting my head around how to actually print, because I want to create limited edition prints of each of the photos that I put up probably just 10 photos 10
