Hey , so 2020 was a bit of a crazy year, let's hope 2021 goes better.  

 

I wanted to continue on from my lessons learnt from 2020.  

 

 

 

One of the things I held back on in the past was investing money in myself.   

 

I'd spend too long agonising over whether to buy high ticket items on myself, continually trying to justify the cost of new software, hardware, even training programmes.  

 

Happily I stopped that trend several years back and have since always invested in training programmes for myself.  

 

The latest treat I got for myself was Audible subscription in 2020.  

 

I'd encourage you to think of these things as accelerators to help boost your efficiency.  

 

 

I am aiming to listen to one book a month - to put that into perspective, it takes me on average over half a year to finish a reading book.  Not that I'm a particularly slow reader, I find the opportunities for reading aren't as readily available as they are for listening to audio books (or podcasts).  

 

Because of that I was able to today complete my first book  Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull.

 

 

 

This was a book I have always wanted to read, it's about the Pixar journey from when it was a couple of guys graduating college with a crazy dream of making the world's first computer generated movie, to going bust and needing to be bailed out by Steve Jobs, completing their first short film to eventually being merged into Disney.

 

The book has so many principles in it about having a vision, about pulling through dark times and how to work in huge creative where ideas and ego often clash.  

 

As I finished the book this morning, the app says I am able to gift this book to whomever I like so I thought I would share the code with you here - https://a.co/8XFfZhY.

 

 

I found the book really inspiring and enjoyed it hugely.  

 

I'll aim to provide an Audible book review each month if this is something you are interested in.  

 

 

Not that I'm planning on becoming an Audible sales rep, but if you are thinking about taking out Audible this year, then feel free to use my affiliate code to Audible here -> https://amzn.to/3ocoyWp

 

By signing up you get all the good stuff and I get a small commission, it's a win-win-win situation.  

 

Hope you're enjoying the content, stay safe and we'll speak again next week.

 

Thanks

 

Farhan