Welcome to Episode 211 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest, and it is Sunday the seventh of February 2021, and it's been about three days since my last podcast, which I guess was would have probably been like Thursday or Friday is what three days is. Why is that why is that well around to it basically I were on a flex of. We're on a permanent flex actually Simona and I have tried to find the right balance. And I guess that's what everybody in life is trying to do trying to find the right balance between work and fat and leisure, or family life, but then within that there's family life being with the family with the kids, there's family life being you as a couple just you and your spouse if you go on or your partner. And then there's individual time, which may be stuff that is to do with work but also maybe stuff that is not to do with work, dare I say, and then work itself, certainly for me is quite a varied thing there's, you know, it goes from music to writing to photography to marketing to working with clients to other stuff. So, there's such a you know overlapping stuff going on that. It's always difficult to find the yeah the right back. I'm sorry, I just got distracted. I won't tell you what I got distracted with. I'm going to keep my eyes on the prize. And so, I'm sorry he's fighting it but I'm gonna have to go in the other room now. I'm walking past the kids bedroom. And they're asleep. Finally, yes. And so it's finding a balance between, you know, between everything and seminar always trying to work out a different way of doing things, a routine this or the other. And the thing that we definitely a weaker at is our routines sheduled sticking to them, etc. And they are so much at the core and more and more I realised how at the core of any kind of success in any kind of endeavour they are. So if you listen to my podcasts of a few days ago in the last week, so I've tried I've tried this new system so system and schedules those I think are the two key things, and the system I've been using is every day. I start working just on my music and then I go on to other things, hopefully after my music it's then marketing my own stuff. And then it's working with clients and other sort of stuff. And to, along with that I've been running a timer for an hour each time and pretty much sticking to it. So do an hour on my music then I'll do an hour on the hour, and I'm finding that this is really enabling me to get through stuff in a satisfactory way like I feel like I'm making progress, even though it's complete false summit mountains like every time I get anywhere. There's another summit to climb ahead and I think certainly thinking about as a creative songwriter or an author or what have you, there's always going to be more work to do, is literally there's no end in sight. But nonetheless, you know, working through stuff like that at least I'm getting through stuff and I'm actually closing in on finishing my album The blind eye to love and this kind of stuff. But that on its own isn't enough. We need the structure so that I can do homeschooling with the kids so that I can play with the kids so that I can spend time with smaller so we can get the housework done so Simona can have time for herself etc etc. So the last few days we've been talking a lot and starting to implement a new you know schedules and hopefully this time round, you know the schedule that we're trying we try once a couple of days and we need to tweak it we're tweaking it. And it's such kind of boring dull stuff and yet it's so fundamental to getting, I think, towards any real goals in life any success. That one wants. So yeah, that's been the last few days. And part of that and I guess we're having done the podcast the last couple of nights is because Friday nights is now family, or has been for few weeks but family movie night. And we watched. Watch Chronicles of Narnia. And on Friday. And then last night we had our inaugural family games night. So, we, w