New Year inspiration: Leeds locals share words of wisdom to help get your year off to the best start

Leeds locals share words of wisdom to help get your year off to the best start.

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00:00 Just do it. I promised myself, I had a few problems a few years back and I promised

00:06 myself when it was all over and done with that I would never turn down an

00:09 opportunity and I haven't and I've done all sorts. I've recorded a rock song, I've

00:16 been on the playhouse stage. So never turn down an opportunity and just do it.

00:22 If you want to do it, just do it.

00:24 Do what makes you happy.

00:26 Yeah, I think New Year, just you know you can be in a completely different place by the end of the year.

00:35 Use that as motivation.

00:37 Enjoy what you do.

00:39 Yeah.

00:40 And if you don't enjoy it, don't do it.

00:42 Definitely dry January and that always works well for me. Cut out the booze for January.

00:50 A bit of exercise as per everybody else I suppose and I think you just need to

00:56 kind of, it's about time of thinking about what you need to, what you want to do.

01:01 You know certainly at my age anyway, what you don't want to do with the rest of

01:04 your life. So yeah, that's what I'll be doing anyway. Cutting out the food and

01:08 drink. Thinking of a plan for the rest of, you know, the rest of my life.

01:13 This year, and I think everyone should take this on board, I kind of overcame my

01:20 trepidations let's say to make art that I really love to make myself and if

01:27 you have any sort of dream this year, why don't you make it this year that you

01:33 get, make a start on it. So specifically I wanted to start making music for myself

01:39 and so all I did was I just pressed record and I just started and I asked my

01:44 friends and stuff about what they think of it, they gave me notes and I just kept

01:48 going from there. Just don't leave things to tomorrow. Today is tomorrow, just do it

01:54 now. Otherwise it's just gonna keep on being in that list that you make every

01:58 day. It's gonna keep on being in that list and it'll never get ticked off and

02:02 it's the nicest feeling to tick off something in a list. So just do it.

02:06 Yesterday is today's breakfast. Well I think the main thing for me in the past

02:12 year is it was the year that my mum died which was a sad event but it, one thing

02:21 that stood out for me was that I think the important thing for people to do is

02:27 try to get rid of stress from their lives. My wife packed in a job recently

02:35 that she wasn't very happy with and the stress just lifted away like that. It was

02:41 great. So my tip for 2024 is just be as stress-free as possible. Relax, take it

02:50 easy, don't work too hard, enjoy yourselves. I've written a few books,

02:55 novels and I've got one that I'm halfway through so my ambition for this year is

03:01 try to finish writing that.