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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace, and to Friday morning. So I don't know if there's

anything you've been wanting to do for, well maybe even something you're thinking, considering

doing this coming weekend. And we have a tendency as human beings to sometimes wait for the

perfect set up, the perfect situation, the perfect environment before we actually begin

doing what we're doing. And because of that, there are some things that we simply never

get around to doing. We never even start. I was having a conversation with someone the

other day. They were asking me, what was the best bit of a vice that I received when

I started writing my first book. And as I thought back, I mean there were lots of good

bits of advice. Some of it was very sort of technical and some of it a little less so.

But the thing that really stuck in my mind was someone saying, just write. When you sit

down, are you lapsed up, or you know, are you still writing sometimes with pen and paper

as well? And they said, don't try to create the perfect page of writing. Just write. You

can always go back to it. You can change it. You might not use it. It doesn't matter.

The point is just to write. And when I think back to that process, I'd never written a book

before. I had no idea how to write a book. And I had no idea what I was going to write

about really. But taking that idea to heart every morning, I would sit down. It turned

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