The View From The Crow's Nest

Welcome to Episode One of the view from the crow's nest, also known as distracting the monkey brain. So I decided I'm going to do a podcast, and I'm probably going to be date daily but We'll soon find out whether I stick to that or not. And the whole point of this podcast is I have, like, my probably anybody who's listening to this like all humans. I have so many diverse interests and ideas that come to me constantly and whether that's in music or whether that's in writing fiction or nonfiction or photography, down to the business. Business Ideas for other businesses already have or businesses I want to have a start, through to schooling and homeschooling our kids through to world schooling and travelling because that's what we do, moving about with our kids, and all these ideas constantly coming to me, and something I really struggle with is finishing any particular project and anybody who's followed me over the last few years will know that I say something's coming something's coming and then it takes that bit longer a new song or screenplay or what have you. And it always takes me longer and that's been the story of my life and the reason is because I always get like distracted by things, relatively easily a new idea comes along with like the bright shiny penny. And I'm like, Oh, this is a great idea, let me do this. And there are a multitude of reasons for it. Someone realised some I don't realise some I realise and still fall for so you know when you're doing something that's really meaningful, a meaningful project it's really important that you get finished, that's often the kind of the hardest thing to finish and then you find something to distract you. And then that takes away a bit of time and then you lose your momentum and it's harder to get back into that project. And then you have this kind of self fulfilling prophecy of oh I don't finish things, etc. And what I realised is while I this is my monkey brain, what I what I call the monkey what not what I call a monkey brain what a lot of people call the monkey brain, which is that part of your brain that likes to be busy likes to see you busy doing busy work is busy work but busy work isn't always the work that fulfils you or actually moves you forward in any way. And so rather than pretending. I don't have a monkey brain. I've decided to go one up on the monkey brain and fight back. So rather than letting the monkey brain distract me, I've decided I'm going to distract the monkey brain. And I'm going to do that by recording these podcasts, where I'm literally going to spout out whatever is on my mind that day maybe it's a new idea. Maybe it's just some thoughts on a particular subject, who knows, who knows when it's going to be. And my hope is that by doing that, I channel all of that kind of distraction, and potential procrastination etc into the podcast and leave myself far more space mental and emotional space. Outside of that, to be able to focus on the projects that really matter so new albums or music or a new screenplay or what have you. I don't know where this is gonna work or not, it's an experiment. And so for those of you who may or may not be listening to all who are listening to this.