Leeds locals share words of wisdom to help get your year off to the best start.
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00:00 Just do it. I promised myself, I had a few problems a few years back and I promised
00:06 myself when it was all over and done with that I would never turn down an
00:09 opportunity and I haven't and I've done all sorts. I've recorded a rock song, I've
00:16 been on the playhouse stage. So never turn down an opportunity and just do it.
00:22 If you want to do it, just do it.
00:24 Do what makes you happy.
00:26 Yeah, I think New Year, just you know you can be in a completely different place by the end of the year.
00:35 Use that as motivation.
00:37 Enjoy what you do.
00:39 Yeah.
00:40 And if you don't enjoy it, don't do it.
00:42 Definitely dry January and that always works well for me. Cut out the booze for January.
00:50 A bit of exercise as per everybody else I suppose and I think you just need to
00:56 kind of, it's about time of thinking about what you need to, what you want to do.
01:01 You know certainly at my age anyway, what you don't want to do with the rest of
01:04 your life. So yeah, that's what I'll be doing anyway. Cutting out the food and
01:08 drink. Thinking of a plan for the rest of, you know, the rest of my life.
01:13 This year, and I think everyone should take this on board, I kind of overcame my
01:20 trepidations let's say to make art that I really love to make myself and if
01:27 you have any sort of dream this year, why don't you make it this year that you
01:33 get, make a start on it. So specifically I wanted to start making music for myself
01:39 and so all I did was I just pressed record and I just started and I asked my
01:44 friends and stuff about what they think of it, they gave me notes and I just kept
01:48 going from there. Just don't leave things to tomorrow. Today is tomorrow, just do it
01:54 now. Otherwise it's just gonna keep on being in that list that you make every
01:58 day. It's gonna keep on being in that list and it'll never get ticked off and
02:02 it's the nicest feeling to tick off something in a list. So just do it.
02:06 Yesterday is today's breakfast. Well I think the main thing for me in the past
02:12 year is it was the year that my mum died which was a sad event but it, one thing
02:21 that stood out for me was that I think the important thing for people to do is
02:27 try to get rid of stress from their lives. My wife packed in a job recently
02:35 that she wasn't very happy with and the stress just lifted away like that. It was
02:41 great. So my tip for 2024 is just be as stress-free as possible. Relax, take it
02:50 easy, don't work too hard, enjoy yourselves. I've written a few books,
02:55 novels and I've got one that I'm halfway through so my ambition for this year is
03:01 try to finish writing that.