Welcome to Episode 193 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and it is Friday the eighth of January, 2021, and 10 plus 10 in case you're wondering. So today, I'm feeling as you might be able to tell a little bit more buoyant than I was yesterday. Yeah, yesterday I was overwhelmed. And I, you know, I've noticed particularly this year. I've been feeling more overwhelmed on occasion than I have in previous years, not sure exactly why that is but it seems to be happening a little bit more regularly than normal. Arguably, that's because I'm trying to do new things and things differently to have done them previously so that's probably got something to do with it. I guess when you're expanding your comfort zone and trying to grow, trying to learn new things and do new things I guess that is a feeling of frustration and overwhelm. You know, particularly when you've got a lot of plates spinning and a lot of those new plates, but nonetheless I got up this morning and I had in mind that I was going to get straight on I wasn't going to sort of amble through the morning as I had have been doing but I was really going to get cracking with probably the most important task which was my tax return, which has to be done and filed by the end of this month. So, that took me till about two o'clock in the afternoon. And then I had lunch and then got cracking on music marketing, I, as you may know from podcast I'm two things one focusing on my own musical art a lot more this year, which means I'm going to be an already have started doing a lot more marketing of my stuff. And two, I have this little agency which does marketing for musicians, basically. So, it seems beholding if that's even a word of me to in, you know, to update my skill set to, you know, to learn some more techniques so I bit the bullet a few days ago and subscribe to a few different courses. And so I'm just starting to work through the first one now. And it's, it's got some interesting stuff in it for sure a couple of tools, mostly tools based stuff that I didn't really know about. But I'm looking forward to this weekend I'm going to try out already started. You know, doing what they're saying and I'm about halfway through, so I'm looking forward to trying that it's a it's a similar approach to, to what I would normally do, but it's got a slightly different angle on it and a couple of different things so we'll see. But principally the the bitness maybe want to update is the clients that I've gotten potentially clients coming on board. Have all asked the same questions which is, how do I get my Spotify up. And whereas, I'm not a huge fan strictly speaking of focusing only on Spotify I think that misses the, the real goal which is to still believe you know improve your email list. At the same time, understand and appreciate that there's a, there is a value to it, and it shouldn't be overlooked and so I thought okay let me work out what the best strategies are that actually work and what people are doing so that's where I'm at. So, yeah. Also I guess I slept pretty well last night as well so I'm feeling a bit more energetic was feeling more energetic today. So, the downside to all of this is that I've done again as I said yesterday, very little of my own creativity my own art. I'm very much behind with the lab, and if you're a subscriber to lab I'm really sorry. I did say that I'd be quiet over the Christmas period, but I wasn't intended to still be quiet at this point. And I also have failed in getting my acoustic song up and out which my plan was to launch that this week, I have got my photography section up and running, and my new Romeo crow photography profile on Instagram. Now there's two photos on the Instagram one and I'm going to try and drop one more or less every other day, or three times a week. For now anyway on Instagram, and then once we call my website so I have made progress, but I would like to make more progress and, principally get back to that really good fl
