So, guys, Derek, more plate smart aids.com. We are back making videos, bro. This is an interesting,

almost deja vu moment for me because last year I had a very similar, almost identical outcome

where I took a really long break and then interestingly enough came back on January 26th

with a video called Where I've Been dot dot dot.

And in that video, I describe my hiatus going on the Joe Rogan podcast.

The other podcasts I did, what I was doing with my time off.

And I was like, I was like, damn, I have clearly not planned well enough my year because the same reasons that I got backlogged last year are the same reasons I'm backlogged

this year. And my hiatus, this time was not so much a break necessarily. It was more

catching up on months of emails, unfortunately. Accounting stuff, tedious backend stuff,

corporate infrastructure. A lot of it requires oversight and oftentimes gets put on the backburner

when you're making content. And that is actually one of the things I want to really dial in

over the next year. It's like really being able to, in what I deem to be a satisfactory way,

achieve a cadence of regular content whilst not getting behind on emails whilst

overseeing companies and continuing product dev on guerrilla mind and whatnot

while still getting my workouts in like this year has been an interesting one because

it's probably been the most I've ever prioritized like I guess I can't say I've

worked less hard in previous years because it's been just a grind for years now, but I definitely did put the companies over the content in some capacity.

And in addition, in some ways, even my workouts, like this is the least I've worked out in the past year.

And I need to get back on it, dude.

Like this is a cadence of four times a week was typical for me at minimum

and this year there's been multiple times where I've fallen off the bandwagon so

that is one of my 23 obligations to myself is to get back in there with regular

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