Well, it's that time of year. It's time for yearly themes.

Are you ready, Mike?

Oh, I'm so ready. I've been ready for about three months.

You've been ready for about three months with your yearly theme? This has become partly

against my will an annual cortex tradition, the discussion of the themes.

How long have we been doing this, Mike?

Well, the idea of themes for a year

first came up in 2016, and you were bouncing around the idea of what you were calling the year of

less which was just kind of like an idea that you had, a thought that you had going on around in your mind about reducing your

commitments over the year.

And then in 2017 we decided that we would actually set it up as something we would do every

year in January to issue the idea of resolutions because they are trash

and to put our stake in the ground for yearly themes.

In 2017 we both had a year of less, which I actually, oh you know I was thinking

about this when I was preparing and we could talk about a year of less a little bit more in a bit,

but I think that is a really good starting theme for most people looking to do this.

You think that's a good starter theme?

I do because I think most of the times when people feel like they need to get some more order in their life is because they have too much stuff going on.

So the idea of taking a year to really think about the amount of projects you're taking on

to maybe weigh up the projects that you're currently doing and try and weed out some

of the stuff that's not necessary is probably a really good starting point for adopting this type of

idea in your life.

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