Thanks Andrew for allowing me to post this! Perfect for Tax Season (US) I have Kim Tracey, a guest speaker talking about Simple Bookkeeping, coming next week on Wed. Jan 14, 2026 at 6PM CST I took her 3-day workshop a few weeks ago and it was outstanding! This will be an approx. 30 mins. presentation that day held right here on Skool. Join my Free community, the presentation is also Free! https://www.skool.com/retirementclub Here's a quick recap: "The Money Made Simple Bookkeeping Spreadsheet is a beginner-friendly system designed for people making money online who want clarity, confidence, and tax-ready books — without complicated software. It walks users through exactly what to track, where to track it, and why it matters, so they’re not guessing when tax season rolls around. Just a simple system that actually gets used."

I went to your You Tube Channel. Very impressed. Favorite - Intimate Jazz Club Sax Atmosphere. Beautiful.

I've been testing a few different ideas for making money online so I can share my REAL LIFE results (not the fantasy stories being peddled on YouTube every day). About 3 weeks ago I started a new YouTube channel which is already starting to gain traction. In the last 10 days my video count has gone from 10 to 20 videos but my watch hours has jumped from under 50 to over 550 hours, so the monetization target of 4,000 watch hours is now looking very doable. In my enthusiasm for this channel and it's growing popularity I boldly told my son that I think I can get monetized by the end of the year and he just laughed and bet me that I can't. Unfortunately, my subscriber count isn't growing as quickly as my watch hours and 1,000 subscribers still looks like a big mountain to climb, but I'm determined to show my sceptical Gen Z son, what this old Boomer is capable of. If you don't like calm, peaceful instrumental music playing in the background while you work, read, relax or just go about your life, then this isn't for you. But if you enjoy good music, read on. I publish a new 90-120 minute music video EVERY day at 5pm UK time (6pm CET, 12 noon EST, 9am PST). So far, I have created playlists of Fireside Jazz Piano Trio (with crackling logs), Solo Felt Grand Piano, Neo-Classical Trio - Grand Piano with Violin & Cello - and I'm currently in the middle of producing a playlist of Jazz Club Quartet featuring Saxophone. All instrumental, all very peaceful and calm. If you like this type of music or you know someone that does, your help would be greatly appreciated. The channel is called Mindful Instrumentals (youtube.com/@MindfulInstrumentals) and I'm hoping that there are a few others in this community that enjoy fine tunes and would be willing to subscribe to my channel. If you subscribe or share my channel link, please leave a comment below so that I can thank you personally.

Nothing fancy, but I used ChatGPT, Suno & Canva to create a little retirement blues ditty, then posted to Tiktok. Here it is.

Hi Everyone, I don't believe in making New Year's resolutions but the start of the year is as good a time as any to get stuck in and start doing the things you know you should have been doing for months but kept putting them off. For me, since I started this community in August, I have been burying myself in the process of testing different ideas before talking about anything. This year I'm adopting a new approach. All the time I have been testing ideas I have been learning so much but because a particular idea may have turned out to not be so great I haven't shared the things I learned in the process. From now on, whenever I try a new AI tool or learn a new skill or just gather some useful information I'm going to share it so everyone can benefit. So you can look forward to a much more active community and if anyone has any questions or ideas for things they want me to look into and report back on, then please feel free to post, either here in 'General Discussion' or in the 'Questions? Help needed?' discussion section of the community.