Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. I have a bunch of

episodes in the cube but I bumped this one up a little bit. I thought it was

especially relevant to the time of year. We're talking about New Year's

resolutions, building habits, maintaining

habits, that sort of thing and it's a good time for it because a lot of us already kind of

fallen apart on our New Year's resolutions and probably re-examining things.

I'm speaking for myself.

I had I shared with you guys my New Year's resolution to make the episodes come out on Monday each

day I've already been with this crazy tour I've already been missing that a few

times so that it's definitely the goal for the year I I want to have a new episode out every

Monday the other thing that I that I had was I wanted to quit doing coffee I

haven't been doing that or only drinking coffee when I need it and then my other

thing I've been sticking with is no candy no soda I haven't had candy or

soda I'm sticking with that but man this is that time of year where that seasonal

depression starts setting in a little bit for many of us, certainly for me. So I

haven't had a big bout of depression since last March. I have never gone on such a streak like this,

so it was the other shoe is going to drop eventually. I'm not sure I'm using that expression correctly, but I think that maybe I am.

And it's starting to, I'm not getting the full depression.

I'm not totally knocked out. I think because of this tour just has me on the move and

I'm better when I'm on the move and but it's the tour has been really nerve rocking it's been great it's the tour's been really nerve-wracking. It's been great. It's been fun. But I'm also in the mid-west in January and there's been a couple of weather issues that really hindered shows and there's probably going to be a couple more and I'm investing so much in the show or I'm kind of gambling my life on it.

And so maybe that's a little bit of a factor. I think the big thing is I just fell out of exercising I just

starting at the end of November I just kind of fallen out of exercising and it's really just catching up with me I got to get back on it

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