And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can

be. I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 196.

It's titled, Daydreaming.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey there, you beautiful people.

It's a new month, and that means a new public episode, all ad-free and without a sponsor in sight.

I do get regular emails from companies asking me if I would consider putting their adverts in,

because this is a popular podcast series. I'm not going to belittle, but put my teeth back in, though, first, but I'm not going to belittle it. It's been going for over 10 years now,

and it does have a lot of listeners, And instead of adverts, I promote myself. The more that

people listen to this, the more people might buy a copy of my book. Available in all good

bookshops, folks, offline and online. So do please consider supporting me. Even if all you do

is leave a glowing review on the podcast app, if you're allowed to.

The Apple podcast app does, and that's the one that most people seem to use, according to surveys anyway.

So if you find my podcast useful, leave a review.

It tells other people that it's worth their time listening, and it could do them good.

Of course, you could always become a patron on patreon.com, if you like it so much that you want extra,

just like Paul did last month. And Simon and Scott, Mo, Abbey, Mark, Victoria, Carol and Veronica.

You, beauties, you came on board to get a new episode every Monday

from me. With an annual discount, it's not much more than about a pound a week. And you get access

to hours and hours and hours and hours of stuff to help you keep your mental health in check.

And the more people that do that, the easier it is to say no to companies that try to

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