Welcome to Episode 60 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest and it is I again, Mr Romeo crow who's speaking to you after yesterday's episode that if you tuned in, if you did tune in, then you will have noticed that it was the first episode where it wasn't me speaking for the simple reason. It was so tired. And just worn out. And my wife said, Well, I'll tell you what, why don't I do the episode for you. So she did. And it was her very first podcast episode as well. So, that was, that was very cool and rather amusing in places as well. Even the intro was was was fabulous. But no, it was cool, something a bit different for you. And the reason. Yeah Yes they are. I was overwhelmed. I don't get overwhelmed too often. But really, the this last week or whatever is really gotten to me with audience Ninja, and maybe it's because everything's kind of come at once you know the agency, which requires setting up, you know, systems and processes and finding the right tools and everything and blah blah blah, to the team for the agency to people starting again systems processes and tools with them and also finding them stuff to do, which requires training as well and obviously it's not as straightforward as just please do this because they need to know how or what tools or blah blah. And then clients as well having clients for the first time, and particularly one of those clients is very much working extremely fast and dynamically and changing quite quickly and rapidly iterating. And so trying to keep up with them is, you know, is cool but it's also a bit of a challenge so between all of those things I think it was just, it's just all getting a bit much and I realised that the big problem that I was having and it's one that I've touched on, even before this agency and realised so obviously haven't learned my lesson. I have touched on this podcast before, and that is that just not being organised leads to a lack of feeling in control and when you lack feeling and control that's when you start feeling overwhelmed and swamped and whatnot. and most definitely that that was like to lead cause me and I was just getting too many messages from too many different places they're all connected. You know WhatsApp, Google Docs, emails and you know everything coming from different angles and it was just, I like things organised I like it i one of my key, key, key tenants in life is, you know, equal or better results for less time. That's what I always look for efficiency over everything else because time is that one resource that you can never replenish, and therefore it should be protected as much as possible. So for me, that means you know just just trying to be efficient with everything. And when I'm not in control of being able to keep things efficient and keep things on track that's, that was really challenging or that is really challenging for me. And of course when it's just you when it's one person you know what tools you're using systems you're using, and it doesn't matter what those systems or tools are necessarily. You know how to use them and you know how they run and it works for you but as soon as you multiply more variables of other people into it, I realised how complex it gets particularly when you're not in the same location you know sitting in the same room, or even in the same country or continent. In fact, so it's not quite so easy to just, you know, have quick chat Oh, can you sign up I'm assuming up but, you know, so yeah so yesterday I was just I was really quite low and I was just tossed knackered just taken out of me really had. So, similar stepped into the breach and took over the podcast today I spent the whole day trying to find a tool that would do what I needed to do in terms of getting our communication back on track and in one place, and nearly found it, and then literally it was putting my credit card details into by this particular tool, and I was on chat support at the same time and then I found out that they kind
