Editing The Pen Addict 391/transcript (section)

== New Year Reflections ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I guess. Does it register with you? As we move through from December 31st to January 1st, I've lost that perspective, I guess. As I get older, it's like, okay, it's Wednesday, you know, or whatever day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I used to be like this, but so much of my life now has revolved around a change of a year. I kind of can't escape it. That's kind of true. I have been prepared for the year changing for about three months, so I feel very much like we're in a new year now. What specifically do you mean, Myke? Let me tell you about a thing called yearly themes, Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, long-time listeners will know that I have been developing a product over the last six months. It's been in and out of sale. It's called the Theme System Journal. It ties into the idea of having a theme for your year instead of a resolution. If you want to get more information on what that kind of means, you should go and listen to episode 95 of the Clotex podcast or go to thethemesystem.com and you will get the information in the background so I don't have to rehash it here. The Theme System Notebook Journal is back in stock right now. This is a monumental thing because it hasn't been in stock for some time because of the way that production works. And the last time we did have it in stock, it was only in stock for like 48 hours. We ordered more. As we are recording this episode, we have sold 50% of said inventory. So, I don't know how long it's going to be in stock for, but so far, yes, it will definitely be longer than the last time. But I don't know how long it's going to be.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, you can go to clotexmerch.com and you can find the Theme System Journal there and you can purchase one for yourself. We're going to talk about this a little bit more throughout the episode today, but that is a bit of front matter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, I wanted to get that front matter out because I purchased one because I have found something that works for me and that is your theme system. So, we're going to talk. I can't believe it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is honestly like one of the biggest honors that I could have thought of is to be that you would want to use this product and it would work for you. I never actually thought it was going to happen. You know, like the episode where you talked to me about it. Oh, we specifically talked about that. I was just terrified, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' After I started using it. Yeah, but before that, when you were talking about creating it, I was like, dude, this sounds great and I have no interest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and that was perfectly fine for me. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but it's working for me, so I had to go order a new one as well because, you know, of how you use these things. And we'll talk about that more because that's what we're going to talk about today. Mostly my journaling, planning, and themes for 2020 is going to be the topic of today's episode, which we'd been promising to do for like a month or two. Yep. But before we get there, Myke, I got an interesting link in my Twitter DMs this morning. Somebody slid in with a link. Yeah, Yagen from Macchiato Man slid into my DMs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He slid into the DMs because he's in Australia, so he's, what, like 14 hours ahead, and he happened to notice something drop on Platinum's Facebook page, and he sent me a link. Have you seen this? So this is called the Platinum Curie Doss.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is this? So we're going to have a link in the show notes to it. It's basically like the PDF marketing for this new Platinum pen. It is Platinum's, the short version without the visual is it's Platinum's version of the Vanishing Point.