When I started Noise Reduction, I was struggling. Struggling to know what was next for me in life. It was the beginning of 2022. I had spent a lot of time supporting the New Zealand Government response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Omicron had just displaced the Delta variant as the major threat.
To be honest, I was planning my exit from my advisory work from when Delta started to wane. But Omicron meant I had to keep going with that work just that bit longer. But I was still looking for my way out.
For the last three years, I’ve been creating content on Youtube on a couple of channels. I really enjoyed making videos, so when the opportunity came to do an online course with Casey Neistat in one of the first courses he was putting out, I jumped at the chance. Casey has over 12 million subscribers on Youtube. he knows what he was doing. I thought there was a good chance that I may be able to learn something from him.
Casey didn’t disappoint. I used what I learned in the first half of his course to make this video. It made me think about how I was spending my time, and how I had no room for anything new, even if I wanted to try changing my life.
It made me stop and realise: I had to do more stopping and more realising.
In order to create new space to try different things, I had to stop doing what I was doing. There is no other way - life with three young kids is busy enough.
This is how 30,000 Days was born as a substack of my Substack, a bit like a sub-variant of my variant.
I hope you enjoy the video. I really enjoyed creating it.
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How my 30,000 Days journey began