Welcome to Episode 209 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest. And it is Wednesday third of February 2020. And for some reason I got good sleep last night but I woke up in a bad mood, I think it was still like a carryover from yesterday just having, basically, a nonworking day which, which also wasn't a day out either so it was kind of like, got to me I don't know, but I had a good, strong training session with Abdel this morning strength training, kind of whole body. And that kind of sorted me out, and a nice shower. But then I carried on with my system, and I've got to say my system is working. So it's pretty simple three step system step one set an alarm or timer for one hour, and basically everything that I do is pretty much just one hour, even if I've not finished it. Even if I'm getting on really well. It's an hour. And actually, I'm finding that no matter pretty much what the task is okay. hour and 15 maybe but pretty much whatever the task is, you know, an hour is about the right time because more than that, and I start maybe losing focus or getting distracted or, whereas an hour is like okay I'm gonna focus on that and give it a really good hour and then I have a little break and it seems to be working well. So that's one second one. Even better, the first hour I'm doing is working on my own music, specifically on recording so in Cubase so producing songs, basically. And to that extent. I'm now just finished the 10th of the 12 songs for my album blend it love. And when I say finished I just mean the backing tracks so I still need to do the vocals for most of those, and all of the backing vocals, but the bedding tracks are basically done and that's going to be huge because then it's like, okay, I don't have to think too much more creatively I just have to do the vocals, you know, although the backing vocals would be a bit creative, I guess. And I've never really done them so that's gonna be a bit interesting but I'm getting closer. And it's because I'm doing like an hour a day on it. Brilliant. And then the second hour I do after that is on marketing, my own stuff. So currently, I've actually just been catching up with the lab posts, which I'm a bit behind on but I'm now making strong headway. After that, I'll be catching up on the photography side of things that I was posting. And once I've got those two things kind of up to date. Then, I'll be looking at sort of other marketing stuff more outbound marketing stuff but again during the hour a day I can see things moving and it's great. The third thing again really simple is, I'm using a task management software, so all the projects I've got that listed out, they've got their tasks tasks got deadlines, and each day. I don't have to think I just go into my task list, and I work through so I think Kate let's do an hour with one client. So I work on their stuff for an hour going through their task list in their project, and then. Who would have thought that being organised actually worked. I'm sure I tried this stuff before and either, it hasn't worked or I hadn't maintained it. So it's only a few days in so let's see whether I can maintain it or not but so far it's, meaning that when I am working, I'm putting really productive luck I'm feeling like I'm really getting some good work done. And the only thing that I hadn't been doing and I did manage today was vocal practice and getting to play my own music to get ready to start gigging again. And then this evening. To do that, I did a vocal practice and then some of the kids came home and they have seen was going to cook dinner so I said okay well. Can I come in and serenade you. And as sloppy as it sounds like. I just I'm not used to because I'm not used to playing in front of anybody that includes also my wife and my kids, you know, doing lack of performance or a console, you know, and so it was really nice to sit in the kitchen and just play some songs whilst Leonardo was banging forks on the table and crushing wat