Welcome to Episode 218 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest and it is Sunday the 14th Valentine's Day is may 14 February 2021. And today I wanted to share with you an idea that kind of stems from, do what you can with what you have right now which is a motto that I have that I've tried to stick to over the years. And in this particular example it's about something really simple, go home for a walk and effectively what it's about is, we often want to do things with our lives in our lives and I'm sure you felt this way about many things, but you just don't have the time and you know you'd like to fit that in at some point, if we imagine our future perfect lives or where we're heading to, we think yes and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and blah blah blah. And the problem is, it never happens. And the reason it never happens is because we don't make it a habit. Now, by doing what we can with what we have right now so if one habit is, or if you want to have the life in the future where you think it will be lovely and then, you know, in this particular case, we'll go out to lovely walks in the countryside etc etc. You may not live in the countryside maybe only they have a park near you. Maybe you don't even have that maybe, you know, there's just, you know, just houses near you blocks or whatever. But it's no it's almost never the case that one transitions from not doing something ever to it being a permanent fixture of their life normally it's steps to get there, and a case in point was today you know we were saying, Be nice go for a walk and blah blah blah but they said the other. And then it just came in after lunch and say, Look, let us go out for a walk. Now, let's get in the car drove five minutes, 10 minutes maybe tops and just go for a walk like off a side road kind of thing so we did and we went up a side street or side road and that kind of led us into the foothills of the mountains, and we had a really nice walk and it was blowing snow into us it was icy icy cold, but the four of us had a really nice walk. And again, it didn't have to be a big thing we only went in the end it was probably about an hour and tops, but we're only planning to go for about 20 minutes one way 20 minutes walk the other way and soon enough. It was an hour. But the point being, rather than thinking some big expedition or it's got to be this big thing or it's got to be there or we have to pick the route or this study other, it was simply a case of just find a place nearby a gun, have a walk. Now we're fortunate because we live in Castroville Erie where we're very close to the mountains but when we're in London, we were right in the centre of London and there's no countryside there you know so you go for a walk in the park. And we were missing, not having a park near us when we were in sa Ischia for seven months to the lockdown. But then you walk through the streets and actually there are some nice streets in Ischia so the point being that you find whatever you can. You do what you can with what you have right now. And you start building, whatever it is that you want to do, into, you know, a proper portion of your life into a habit into a routine. And from there, of course, as you move as your circumstances change you can expand on that habit you can expand on that part of your routine in your schedule. But if it's not already there it's going to be very difficult to start it. Just overnight and make it a substantial part of what you're doing. So the whole point I guess of today's podcast is think about the things that you're not doing that you'd like to do, and consider how can you start them even, even if it's just 10 minutes in a day. How can you start them in the smallest viable way the minimum viable product, something which we'll talk about in another podcast but that's an idea from the Lean Startup side of business but basically it pretty much just means, what's the least the smallest thing simplest thing you can do to