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at redpost question dot co.uk anyway let's get in to today's episode i'm actually quite proud of

myself because i wasn't sure if i was going to keep up the midweek mini-pod episodes going into the new year. Because I started it as kind of like podmus, a bit like vlogmus. But we're still here. We're doing another one. Long may it continue. Hopefully fingers crossed. Let me know if you'd like to see more of them.

These episodes are smaller, so I guess they're a little bit more fun, I guess, a little bit easier for me, I guess, to record and just have a little bit of a catch-up, a little bit of chinwag. But anyway, let's start off on my 2026 New Year's resolutions. I have actually written them down on my notes app this year because then I can go back, check them as the year goes on.

So we're going to start off. written them down on my notes app this year because then I can go back, check them as the year goes on.

So we're going to start off with general.

Now, my general is to try and read five times a week, which I feel like I was going to pay every day,

but then I feel like with a lot of New Year's resolutions, if you don't keep something up,

then you can go, oh, well, you know, I failed now. I missed yesterday. So I'm just going to, I'm going to quit doing that when actually, I think if you give yourself a little bit of leeway or just like as much as possible, then I think it's easier to keep up. And I think nowadays, because obviously I read on an e-reader

and I also have a matching app on

my phone so I also have a matching

app on my phone. So I literally have no excuses. Instead of scrolling away on social media,

which, you know, technically is my job so I can say it's market research, which is a very bad

excuse. But anyway, I can go on my phone and I can read. I can read on my phone and it keeps me up to

date of where I am on my e-reader because obviously don't take my e-reader everywhere with me,

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