Welcome to Episode 50 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. Now 50 is quite a. It's quite a milestone quite an achievement and I wanted to do a big episode by big I don't really know what it mean but nonetheless. If you've listened over the last few days you've probably heard me deteriorating vocally, and my throat is worse today than it was yesterday so it's not going to be any kind of long episode because frankly it hurts. Today, I had the big kind of hopefully final proposal to send to the American potential clients for audience Ninja, and had a strange sleep last night, a bit of. Well firstly I didn't sleep very well at all. But secondly, kind of, when you're stuck in a loop, which is usually for me when my body's battling some little bug or something. My dreams get a bit weird and so I had that last night so I really was not on it today. And it was very difficult for me to concentrate on anything else feeling really drained so putting together this proposal was was definitely difficult but I got out the door. I said I do it today, and I did it today I probably could do it tomorrow but you know when you say you're going to do something particularly well actually regardless when you say or do something by a certain time, then you really should try and deliver. So I've got that adores that was good and that was basically the only thing I really managed work was although I had been reading. As you may know, I try and read at least one kind of business book one nonfiction book and one fiction book at the same time, and the business book I've been reading recently was this is marketing by Seth Godin, and I'm about 40% of the way and it's slow going, and the reason is exactly as I feared when I introduced the book previously and said I'm about to read this. Seth Godin is after all these years he's got so guru, with his, his ideas and teaching that is now like, it's like reading Chinese Proverbs, you know, it's you have you read it, it sounds great and then you think actually I have no idea what he just said, and then you've got to kind of really decipher it you need a Rosetta Stone or something so it's not really so practical per se, though he would argue that it's immensely practical, I'm sure. But it's not really it Yes, tough guy. But I saw an advert on Facebook for a book. And normally I wouldn't respond but nonetheless I did to this one, by a guy called Sabri sushi or something like that and Australian guy, and it's called sell like crazy, I believe, and I looked on Amazon and the reviews are actually really good so I can try that. And immediately, it's bang on practical. Most of it so far is stuff that I've already heard but that doesn't mean it's not valuable because, as always, people can say something in a slightly different way and finally the penny drops, or it just reminds you have the validity of an idea or the power of doing something. And I'll probably talk about the book a bit more in the coming days because I think there's a lot of value in there, but none enough to say you know I read about probably about 20% of that already and it's just starting today, and it's good. You know, it's already got me thinking or reminded me in different ways so that's really positive so I'm glad about that. And at some point I'll get back to Seth Godin book, but I'm not really looking forward to it. So that was my other bit of work. The other thing I did today we had a family movie at the end of the end of the day, and we finished watching. Back to the Future. That is such a joy to start for me who loves films to start being able to re watch films that I love with my kids, specifically with me Natalie and it was a bit bored. She loved it. And it's great obviously we've got the next two films to watch as well. But I've said it before and I'll say it again. Back to the Future, pretty much the most perfect film ever made as far as I'm concerned. And I will go into detail about that another time or if you wish to ask me, come
