Welcome to Episode 207 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest, and the day is actually the first of February, 2021, but this podcast is going to confuse me in time is about the is about yesterday, the 31st of January, 2021, but it's going to be dated first of February, because otherwise it's going to be far too confusing. Anyway, I made it, it's the morning, and I'm doing it so at least I remember this time. So follow up from yesterday. So, my plan of spending one hour per project started well enough, and then unravelled because I spent too long on certain projects, because the task that I was doing just took longer than an hour and I didn't want to stop it, but also I just figured that I could prioritise that task, because it was necessary and the other ones could actually wait. but what I did do is I've started yesterday again with working on my own music on a song on. I'm not your sucker or not your sucker, which is from album of blind it largely the vocals the guide vocals on it but I need to do proper vocals and backing vocals, much like most of the other songs on the album, but it's cool because the rest of the track is done, the bed track and it sounds cool so I'm really chuffed and it means I can move on to the next track. My plan is to get all of the 12 songs done as far as back backing tracks basically are done, and then go through and do all the vocals and get them done so I'm really excited about that because it's one step closer and it's very simple, just work on it every day. Who would have thought it. After that I spent a few hours working on a client's new clients, advertising campaign, because I wanted to launch that ideally yesterday but it will be today, but at least it will be ready to go. They've got a new single coming out a couple of weeks that's important I get on that early or early, you know, in time. So it was, it was pretty good. Everything unravelled not everything unravelled but at 530 last night. I got an email from my accountants, saying we've finished your tax return. Please can you okay now bearing in mind in the UK the tax return had to be done by midnight last night. So Sunday it's 530, they sent me the thing, and I was expecting. I don't know why but I was expecting pretty much no tax to be paid. And I was in for a rude awakening by quite a wide margin, which was an initial inducing moment, because as like far. And there's literally no way I could pay the amount that was owed. So long story short, One bonus is because of COVID, they are giving you a month's amnesty as it were without charging you late fees if you don't file your tax return. They will start charging interest on whatever you owe. As of today, but they won't charge you, the fee for being late if you fall before the end of February, and also a few things with a tax return that weren't quite right, which hopefully will reduce my tax load long and short of it is I sent an email back to the accountants, and we'll get it sorted this week, and then I'll probably speak to the tax office and see if I can stagger my payments over the next 12 months which I think they're also offering because of COVID, on account of last year, last tax year I had a business that brought in money and this tax year I have no business that brings in no money. So, I don't have the money to pay the tax bill, but it does highlight two really really important things, one of which I'd started doing recently, and the other which i'll come on to in a second. So the first one is, I need to set aside money every time I get paid for anything for tax and it's an obvious one, I know and everyone knows it, but of course when you're living hand to mouth, you don't, you know you don't have the 15 20% or whatever to put aside, or you do have it but you won't do it. Pay for other things like food and stuff. But I need to be really, really mindful of that and put that aside and be ready so that when tax bills come in, I'm ready to not get beat down by them. And that l