In this episode I discuss why you must be happy before you are successful and why happiness needs to come before anything else.

Due mainly to the Coronavirus pandemic and spending most of the year in lockdown or with other restrictions, 2020 was not a very creative year for me.

As a photographer and video creator, I took very few photos and didn't put out my normal weekly content.  So it may have appeared as a very bad year for me, but while my creativity suffered, it was still a very good year for me.

That is because I spent the year focusing on and developing myself, my mindset and my happiness.

One of the reasons I have not been as successful with my photography and video career is because I have had a negative mindset, focusing on all the things in my life I wasn't happy about and feeling as though nothing was going my way.  I suffered from a victim mindset.

As I discuss in this episode, I have greatly turned that around over the last few months and I am now much more positive, grateful, happy and optimistic and as a result of that I now have much more energy and drive to work on my goals, my career and my productivity.

If you have a negative mindset, how can you possibly work towards a big goal with the energy and effort that it really requires to succeed.

That is why I believe happiness must come first.  It is why, despite not creating very much, 2020 was such an important year for me and why I believe it has set me up to have a much more successful future.