Ali, I was a student that was really bad at studying. One day, I came across your video about how to revise for exams and after that I binged watched all of your videos. Now I am one of the highest achieving students in my class!
"When I stole a piece of bread to feed my stomach when I was 14, they threw me into the prison and gave me free bread for 6 months there. This is the justice of life." Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Glad to see my favorite fantasy author Sanderson getting recommended! I've been looking for more non-fiction books to read so I'll definitely be adding some of these to my list.
Ooh, have you read The Warden's Reign by Parris Sheets yet? I've had a few friends recommend it to me after I kinda bought Sanderson's Mistborn series.
Hey Ali, First of all merry Christmas. One day I watched your active recall tip video. And during my university I went from 1.3 GPA to 4.0 GPA thank you for that
I'm currently listening to a very interesting book called "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. The book is the result of his research of flow, or being "in the zone", where you are enjoying a certain activity so much that you lose track of time. He describes how the state of flow can be cultivated and, by that, how we can enjoy our work, everyday activities, relationships, live more intentionally and immersed, and generally have a more fulfilling life. Thought I'd share my book recommendation here as well 📖
I don't how to say this but videos like yours that are straightforward and cut into sections are the best it keeps me interested and not get bored I wish everyone do it like this.
ali i am no more watching your videos for content i am watching it because , after i complete your video there is a sense of discipline arising in my mind which makes me more productive !! thank you
You're the best thank you for inspiring me! I am really impressed by the way you have time to read all these books. Just downloaded half of them to read during the Christmas break. You have a beautiful mind, stay cool
Thank you SO much, Ali for sharing your absolutely magnificent wisdom and persona so transparently with us whether it be in the aspect of studies, productivity or life in general! I’m sure you get to hear this a lot but you are making such a huge difference in so many people’s lives by inspiring them to change for the better even if it be by a minuscule amount everyday! In your last video, you mentioned how one of the reasons why you started this channel was a selfish one - to make it become your secondary source of income but I’d like to negate that point with a heartfelt NO for the sole reason that you’ve always been, from Day 1, out there to help others in the process and I feel like whatever benefit you get in return for it is much less than you actually deserve for the splendid quality of content, your sheer dedication and that friendly connection with your audience full of banter and learning you have so easily developed. Your continuous endeavour to improve yourself or being curious about newer things is such an inspiring sight almost to the point of endearing! I wish you prosper in all you that you do because you’ve been nothing but a fruitful addition to everyone’s watch-time in a world where mindless chatter and content is abundant! Lotsa love! :))
I can't quite put my finger on it but I really enjoy hearing what you have to say about these books. Thank you for sharing with us! I'm definitely adding "The Righteous Mind" to my list of to-reads!
Wheel of Time series is one of my favs!! One of my favs non fiction books...every year I re-read is Prisoners of Geography. Defo one to add to the list.
paying off my mortgage was one of the best things i ever did, and has unleashed the confidence within me to take some much greater risks, not to mention, it has given me an inner peace ive never experienced. i will spontaneously experience a wave of joy when it hits me again that I am not owned by a bank. I didnt realise just how much having such a financial burden was weighing me down.
On your suggestion, I read MistBorn and I am COMPLETELY hooked. Just listened to the audiobook by GraphicAudio uploaded by someone on TH-cam. Already completed The Well Of Ascension (part 2) with a binge session yesterday night 😂 I love how not a lot of Book Club-Books aren't mentioned. You're really amazing Ali. And all are super cool books, would definitely read them as we enter into 2021. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ❤️
wow your choice is awesome you also read the wheel of time ... . active recall and spaced repetion everyone knows but was always ignored but watching your videos made me religiously follow it and there is considerable increase in result.keep making more videos on how to survive medical school ....your videos are a reason for my increase in typing speed.thanks a lot.........
I agree, stress about money is, but stress about currency isn’t a fundamental of human existence. If you think about it, money is something that is used for trade, for example, a bread for a sheep. But currency took money to a level which I don’t like because you’re not getting paid for the amount of work for society you put in. For example, bankers are getting paid far more than garbage collectors. The way money worked before the agricultural revolution was far more honest.
Gosh so many good book recommendations! I hope I can read half of the books you recommended here for next year. I'm literally still reading books you recommended in 2019.... anyways Merry Christmas and happy holiday Ali and everyone else!
Seeing as you enjoyed War Doctor I would really recommend your read Moving Mountains by Claire Bertshinger. Claire was a nurse for the International Red Cross/Crescent movement. The main focus of the book is around her experiences in Ethiopia during the 1984 famine. She was the nurse who inspired the Live Aid relief programme. It also discusses her experiences in Afganisation, Sudan and so on.
Thank you for the recommendations. Yesterday I started "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller and I am finishing it today! Great book! :) Looking forward to checking the other ones :)
jajakh allah brother for your great recommendations ,always proud to have a person like you who recommends what best for everyone in general...may the almighty bless you
Oh my gosh, you read Six Of Crows! I just had to put that out there because it definitely is one of the highlights of my 2020, book-wise. Nonetheless, cheers to 2021!
I've been binge watching your videos doc! I think it improved my vocabulary just by listening to you. On top of that, I learn a lot of life skills! Excited to download some of your recommendations!
Ali whether you read my comment or not but I want to say , You are the person who has instilled in me the positivity ,productivity and aims of life You changed my life .2020 was best for I met a person who changed my life .I want to thank you for existing and changing my life . Hats off 🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩 for such down to earth person!!!!! Allah bless you ameen 🤲
I just Got into this incredible & interested Channel. Honestly, all the Books you have recommended are truly wonderful, mann. I like to read, but I don't have any interest in reading. I get tired so fast, and it's not because I don't like it, but because I don't have much feeling anymore. I believe this Channel would help me a much better! You're absolutely doing a great job. Cheers bro. RESPECT 🙌
You remind me of my chiropractors they were so advanced in their methods and techniques and great at psychology. I have a cousin in London she's a medical school in Manchester and I hope she does well like yourself and my other cousins did well studying in UK in architecture. I feel I will improve myself by listening to you. So thank you for inspiring me.
My favorite part on your channel where you talk about books! Looking forward to more book club videos and just subscribed to your newsletters, happy holidays!
Thanks Ali! I just started Matthew Dicks’s Storyworthy and got to his Homework for Life assignment. His Tedtalk of the same assignment topic is inspiring and I will start working on it. Thanks for sharing!
I was searching for some good books to read in my free time in 2021.. Then I just found this video... Thank you So much... 😊 💖🎊🌨🎇✨Merry Merry Christmas🎄🎉🎁☃️
Thanks for all your hard work in 2020 Ali. It’s great to watch a channel that is consistently purposeful and always delivers its message with clarity. Happy Christmas to you and yours, and greetings from Iceland 🇮🇸
These are some nice reads. Natives by akala is definitely in my reading list and the righteous mind sounds good especially since I'm heavily involved in politics and the psychology of money sounds good aswell. And I love your videos by the way.
The Wheel of Time is one of my go to fantasy series for rereads. I have also read Elantris(loved that and feel it’s underrated) and Mistborn era 1(also super good). Just finished the first book (Alloy of Law) in the second Mistborn era and it definitely stands on it own
Books have evolved so much these days to the point where I never read books as a kid growing up but I do so much reading on websites and articles. My knowledge continues to grow everyday and reading, as a hobby, has actually made me a much happier person. Would love to see more videos like this! 👌🏻
Have you read The Fifth Season? I don’t read fiction, let alone fantasy/sci-if, but I picked this up when I learned the trilogy is the only trilogy to have won the Hugo award 3 years in a row. It gripped me, and has a great twist. Highly, highly recommended.
You are so vague when it comes to describing these fantasy books, it's hilarious! :) I also read and loved Normal People, though while I was reading it I felt conflicted. "I love this! I hate this!" And on and on. There was just so much drama, lack of communication, anxiety, self-doubt.... but I guess we all go through that at times.
On the first book and the author's realisation that he hadn't encountered enough conflict; Celine Sciamma, who wrote and directed Portrait of a Young Lady on fire, gave a lecture for the BFI (available on YoutUbe) about how her story actually tries to break away with this convention in writing, and trying to build substance through an avenue that's not necessarily conflictual. As someone who writes, it's something I've asked myself a lot - is conflict really the only way to make a story interesting? Sciamma's lecture meanders a bit and I think I'll have to listen to it a few times to really appreciate what she's saying, but it's an interesting counter view point! Anyway, super vid as always
I love Celine Sciamma! She has such a unique and intelligent perspective when it comes to writing. I wish she was more recognized because I think she is just as brilliant of a writer, even better, than certain writers who have won Oscars. And the fact that Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t even win a Caesar award but Roman Polanski did was such a disservice and the fact that Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t even get nominated for an Oscar is insane to me!! I think that movie is definitely a potential to being a classic and if that movie was a book I have no doubt in my mind that it would be a classic
Found Storyworthy in Scribd! Thanks for the recommendation :) Binge watching all your videos and love them all! Have already suscribed to Podcast and this channel.
I am just into the first book in the Wheel of Time. Almost jumped out when you said you've read it! Love it, so good. Like a marriage of HP and LOTR for me.
Ali, I was a student that was really bad at studying. One day, I came across your video about how to revise for exams and after that I binged watched all of your videos. Now I am one of the highest achieving students in my class!
hey! So nice to see another aviation channel that is a big fan of Ali.
@@thejorgemunoz fan of aviation also :D
@@tahmid6117 hey that cool bro, ill check out your channel
Wow guys! There are more people like me!
@@tahmid6117 i think i found it but there are some other with the same name haha
"When I stole a piece of bread to feed my stomach when I was 14, they threw me into the prison and gave me free bread for 6 months there. This is the justice of life." Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Made my day ...thank you
Best quote of all time
So trueee, when you finish a series you love, it leaves a hole in your heart. It hurts to move on.
I love how in the thumbnail he has a "When you're expecting" book
His secret girlfriend must be pregnant. Hahaha. Just teasing. Sorry!
He is a doctor
yeah, it was funny
He had it to the side of another book he was describing during the video too 😂
Isn't he a gynecologist? Maybe that's why he has it.
Glad to see my favorite fantasy author Sanderson getting recommended! I've been looking for more non-fiction books to read so I'll definitely be adding some of these to my list.
Ooh, have you read The Warden's Reign by Parris Sheets yet? I've had a few friends recommend it to me after I kinda bought Sanderson's Mistborn series.
Merry Christmas to everyone and a (hopefully better) Happy New Year 2021!❤️
Time to add these books to my already never ending to be read list!
If this channel was a book, *Ali Abdaal would be on the top 15 list*
dude!!! I just added almost ALL of these books to my MUST READ books for 2022!! Thanks so much for your suggestions!!
Hey Ali,
First of all merry Christmas. One day I watched your active recall tip video. And during my university I went from 1.3 GPA to 4.0 GPA thank you for that
Ali you're not hiding that Fifty Shades from us.
He is crystal clear
Finally found something Ali is bad in: describing fiction books: Sounds lame and stayed till 4 am reading it!
🤣🤣🤣
So true 😂
I'm currently listening to a very interesting book called "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. The book is the result of his research of flow, or being "in the zone", where you are enjoying a certain activity so much that you lose track of time. He describes how the state of flow can be cultivated and, by that, how we can enjoy our work, everyday activities, relationships, live more intentionally and immersed, and generally have a more fulfilling life. Thought I'd share my book recommendation here as well 📖
Great book 👌
One of my favourite books ever. I second this recommendation!
Finished it recently ! It's a great book ! I recommend the TED talk as well.
Thank you for telling.. I will surely read
And can u suggest more books.. Give more books name.. Please
“Fantasy is like just the best genre” YAAAAAAS😁💖💖💖💖💖
I don't how to say this but videos like yours that are straightforward and cut into sections are the best it keeps me interested and not get bored I wish everyone do it like this.
The best part of this video is how excited he gets when talking about the books. I will definitely read some of these in 2021
90% of my kindle is filled with books Ali recommends and I dont regret a bit.
ali i am no more watching your videos for content
i am watching it because , after i complete your video there is a sense of discipline arising in my mind which makes me more productive !!
thank you
I'm watching this in the start of 2022. Let's hope the new year stays good.
You're the best thank you for inspiring me! I am really impressed by the way you have time to read all these books. Just downloaded half of them to read during the Christmas break. You have a beautiful mind, stay cool
Do u downlaod or buy them?
Ali’s videos about books and kindles are my absolute favorite.
Without a doubt I'm adding most of this books to my reading list in kindle. Merry Christmas to yall!
Thank you SO much, Ali for sharing your absolutely magnificent wisdom and persona so transparently with us whether it be in the aspect of studies, productivity or life in general! I’m sure you get to hear this a lot but you are making such a huge difference in so many people’s lives by inspiring them to change for the better even if it be by a minuscule amount everyday!
In your last video, you mentioned how one of the reasons why you started this channel was a selfish one - to make it become your secondary source of income but I’d like to negate that point with a heartfelt NO for the sole reason that you’ve always been, from Day 1, out there to help others in the process and I feel like whatever benefit you get in return for it is much less than you actually deserve for the splendid quality of content, your sheer dedication and that friendly connection with your audience full of banter and learning you have so easily developed.
Your continuous endeavour to improve yourself or being curious about newer things is such an inspiring sight almost to the point of endearing! I wish you prosper in all you that you do because you’ve been nothing but a fruitful addition to everyone’s watch-time in a world where mindless chatter and content is abundant!
Lotsa love! :))
I can't quite put my finger on it but I really enjoy hearing what you have to say about these books. Thank you for sharing with us! I'm definitely adding "The Righteous Mind" to my list of to-reads!
Wheel of Time series is one of my favs!! One of my favs non fiction books...every year I re-read is Prisoners of Geography. Defo one to add to the list.
The righteous mind is a master piece, but the way you summarised(taste buds example). Ufff, Loved it!!
My favorite type of videos.. Happy holidays, everyone!
Storyworthy is a great book and the homework for life exercise is life changing.
This was an excellent video, and nice choice of background music. Keep up the good work as always!
paying off my mortgage was one of the best things i ever did, and has unleashed the confidence within me to take some much greater risks, not to mention, it has given me an inner peace ive never experienced. i will spontaneously experience a wave of joy when it hits me again that I am not owned by a bank. I didnt realise just how much having such a financial burden was weighing me down.
Thanks Ali for helping me finding my next audible books :)
On your suggestion, I read MistBorn and I am COMPLETELY hooked. Just listened to the audiobook by GraphicAudio uploaded by someone on TH-cam.
Already completed The Well Of Ascension (part 2) with a binge session yesterday night 😂
I love how not a lot of Book Club-Books aren't mentioned. You're really amazing Ali. And all are super cool books, would definitely read them as we enter into 2021. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ❤️
Quarantine is definitely helping me read more, thank you for these suggestions, looking forward to adding some of these to my list!
Mistborn one of my all time favourite fantasy series. If you’re serious about Brandon Sanderson Ali you need to read The Stormlight Archives!
Ali I found your channel recently and your How to study videos are really helpful . Became topper in my High school
The thumbnail is really funny! Ali is holding "what to expect when you are expecting" and fifty shades of grey! Seriously! 😂😂😂
Oh wow, I didn't even notice that 😂
He had What to Expect to the side of another book he was describing during the video too 😂
Me: "WHY IS HE HOLDING 50 SHADES ON THE THUMBNAIL?"
Ali: *Master troll level achieved*
yeahhhh
I am subscribed to 3 TH-camrs only and you are one of them. Absolutely brilliant content.
No one:
Literally no one:
Ali: Lemme insert a clip of my great acting skills 9:02
HAHHAHAHAHAHHA
Read ‘Never Split the Difference’ , highly recommend !
9:37 It really feels good to hear Ali say “Libya” which is my home country
wow your choice is awesome you also read the wheel of time ... . active recall and spaced repetion everyone knows but was always ignored but watching your videos made me religiously follow it and there is considerable increase in result.keep making more videos on how to survive medical school ....your videos are a reason for my increase in typing speed.thanks a lot.........
Thank you so much, Ali! For adding some wonderful recommendations in my 2021 TBR
"Stress about money is one of the fundamentals of human existence"
I agree, stress about money is, but stress about currency isn’t a fundamental of human existence. If you think about it, money is something that is used for trade, for example, a bread for a sheep. But currency took money to a level which I don’t like because you’re not getting paid for the amount of work for society you put in. For example, bankers are getting paid far more than garbage collectors. The way money worked before the agricultural revolution was far more honest.
This one got LOLing so hard hahahah
Not all people.
Gosh so many good book recommendations! I hope I can read half of the books you recommended here for next year. I'm literally still reading books you recommended in 2019.... anyways Merry Christmas and happy holiday Ali and everyone else!
"Molly moved back. Realized how nice it is to have a clean kitchen." Dude.
genuinely love that you included Natives. It is such an important book!
Seeing as you enjoyed War Doctor I would really recommend your read Moving Mountains by Claire Bertshinger. Claire was a nurse for the International Red Cross/Crescent movement. The main focus of the book is around her experiences in Ethiopia during the 1984 famine. She was the nurse who inspired the Live Aid relief programme. It also discusses her experiences in Afganisation, Sudan and so on.
The problem with this video is picking one to read next. I'm gonna get started.
Ali is the guy who got me into self help! So thankful to him for that 🙌🏾
Thank you for the recommendations. Yesterday I started "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller and I am finishing it today! Great book! :) Looking forward to checking the other ones :)
jajakh allah brother for your great recommendations ,always proud to have a person like you who recommends what best for everyone in general...may the almighty bless you
Oh my gosh, you read Six Of Crows! I just had to put that out there because it definitely is one of the highlights of my 2020, book-wise.
Nonetheless, cheers to 2021!
Really love the way you listed out all the books and authors with respective times. Thank you~
I've been binge watching your videos doc! I think it improved my vocabulary just by listening to you. On top of that, I learn a lot of life skills! Excited to download some of your recommendations!
Ali whether you read my comment or not but I want to say ,
You are the person who has instilled in me the positivity ,productivity and aims of life
You changed my life .2020 was best for I met a person who changed my life .I want to thank you for existing and changing my life .
Hats off 🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩 for such down to earth person!!!!!
Allah bless you ameen 🤲
I just Got into this incredible & interested Channel. Honestly, all the Books you have recommended are truly wonderful, mann. I like to read, but I don't have any interest in reading. I get tired so fast, and it's not because I don't like it, but because I don't have much feeling anymore. I believe this Channel would help me a much better! You're absolutely doing a great job.
Cheers bro.
RESPECT 🙌
You remind me of my chiropractors they were so advanced in their methods and techniques and great at psychology. I have a cousin in London she's a medical school in Manchester and I hope she does well like yourself and my other cousins did well studying in UK in architecture. I feel I will improve myself by listening to you. So thank you for inspiring me.
Him talking about fantasy is such a mood though 😅
Yup😸
My favorite part on your channel where you talk about books! Looking forward to more book club videos and just subscribed to your newsletters, happy holidays!
Should we read those productively or not ?
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are safe!
Merry Christmas
Would love to see a top 100/top 50 books that you would recommend everyone should read. An all-time best book list.
yes! this video came out at such a convenient time. I'm just about to buy new books to read. thanks Ali :)
Keep up that grind my man!!
As usual, your videos are wonderful. I know I speak for many people here by saying you have a tremendously positive impact on our lives!
15* books 🤷♂️ ya missed one ❤️
surprised out of all Sanderson books he could've picked, he picked Elantris
No wheel of time!🤭
Oh, it's nice to see you here; especially after you mentioned Ali in one of your assumptions video.
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@@mrjamiec9892 he meant 2020 books, he read all the others in 2019 or 2020
Oh my God, this would be super fun ali actually sharing #most beneficial & productive book😍😍... Soo early 🤗🙂
Thanks Ali! I just started Matthew Dicks’s Storyworthy and got to his Homework for Life assignment. His Tedtalk of the same assignment topic is inspiring and I will start working on it. Thanks for sharing!
I was searching for some good books to read in my free time in 2021.. Then I just found this video... Thank you So much... 😊
💖🎊🌨🎇✨Merry Merry Christmas🎄🎉🎁☃️
Thanks for all your hard work in 2020 Ali. It’s great to watch a channel that is consistently purposeful and always delivers its message with clarity. Happy Christmas to you and yours, and greetings from Iceland 🇮🇸
This video is legitimately huge. I have to break it into few pieces and watch it separately. Now is my third time continue watching this.
Brilliant non-fiction list! Very curious to read all of them! Thanks for sharing
I'm currently reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Year. It's really an easy but fascinating book. Thanks for suggesting!
These are some nice reads. Natives by akala is definitely in my reading list and the righteous mind sounds good especially since I'm heavily involved in politics and the psychology of money sounds good aswell. And I love your videos by the way.
The Wheel of Time is one of my go to fantasy series for rereads. I have also read Elantris(loved that and feel it’s underrated) and Mistborn era 1(also super good). Just finished the first book (Alloy of Law) in the second Mistborn era and it definitely stands on it own
*When i start my YT channel*
*read 3 book a year*
Me: Here are my top 3 books I read this year
it is a pleasure to watch you videos. I can practicing my listening here as well as many other skills and knowledge. Thank you Ali 😊
Books have evolved so much these days to the point where I never read books as a kid growing up but I do so much reading on websites and articles. My knowledge continues to grow everyday and reading, as a hobby, has actually made me a much happier person. Would love to see more videos like this! 👌🏻
just loving that your intro is 10 seconds
Ali ,Merry Christmas and happy new year from India 🇮🇳
Did you read my mind? Thanks for this video Ali.
Great content Ali!!
Make sure to destroy the like button, Ali is so helpful and genuine!!
So true.
Have you read The Fifth Season? I don’t read fiction, let alone fantasy/sci-if, but I picked this up when I learned the trilogy is the only trilogy to have won the Hugo award 3 years in a row. It gripped me, and has a great twist. Highly, highly recommended.
One of the best youtube channels. May expect a video on LinkedIn optimization?
You are so vague when it comes to describing these fantasy books, it's hilarious! :) I also read and loved Normal People, though while I was reading it I felt conflicted. "I love this! I hate this!" And on and on. There was just so much drama, lack of communication, anxiety, self-doubt.... but I guess we all go through that at times.
The fastest i have ever subscribed to both a YT channel and newsletter!!!!!!
On the first book and the author's realisation that he hadn't encountered enough conflict; Celine Sciamma, who wrote and directed Portrait of a Young Lady on fire, gave a lecture for the BFI (available on YoutUbe) about how her story actually tries to break away with this convention in writing, and trying to build substance through an avenue that's not necessarily conflictual. As someone who writes, it's something I've asked myself a lot - is conflict really the only way to make a story interesting? Sciamma's lecture meanders a bit and I think I'll have to listen to it a few times to really appreciate what she's saying, but it's an interesting counter view point! Anyway, super vid as always
I love Celine Sciamma! She has such a unique and intelligent perspective when it comes to writing. I wish she was more recognized because I think she is just as brilliant of a writer, even better, than certain writers who have won Oscars. And the fact that Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t even win a Caesar award but Roman Polanski did was such a disservice and the fact that Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t even get nominated for an Oscar is insane to me!! I think that movie is definitely a potential to being a classic and if that movie was a book I have no doubt in my mind that it would be a classic
Wow! Merry Christmas Ali! This is an unexpected present ❤️
2020 is nearly ending and we are still alive .
Wooo hoo.
Just had ‘War Doctor’ delivered, straight into the action in chapter 1. Really good from the off 👍🏼
Six of Crows will be on Netflix in the next month! It is part of the grishaverse universe
Found Storyworthy in Scribd! Thanks for the recommendation :) Binge watching all your videos and love them all! Have already suscribed to Podcast and this channel.
I am just into the first book in the Wheel of Time. Almost jumped out when you said you've read it! Love it, so good. Like a marriage of HP and LOTR for me.
Excellent year in review! Thank you for the interesting synopsis and enthusiastic recommendations! Best wishes for a great 2021 reading year!
I really appreciate ali made this video. Thank you.
Six of crows description giving me a lot of Mistborn Kelsier's crew vibe, added to my list !! Good video Ali
I’m looking forward to the summary of the books newsletter.
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦👋🏽
Thank you for making this one! Will help me loads :)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!