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I am feeling completely rested for two significant reasons; regular exercise & sleep. 

During my month housesitting in the Central West, I had time to rest. I would nap after morning exercise & again after lunch, as well as sleep until I woke. I soon realised, as supported by Simon Alexander Ong (life coach of note), that adequate rest makes you happier, healthier & more effective. In a day I would typically achieve much more than if I'd woken earlier & got busy. Being busy, is not the same as being effective. Being stressed is not a symptom of hard work. I suspect that the powers that be, advertisers, like us to remain busy & stressed, because we are unfulfilled & consume "stuff" to try & make us feel better, save time or relax. 

Last evening reading SAO I was reminded of the need for electronic dieting. Clues such as weening off devices well before bedtime & shutting them off listening mode while you sleep & complete breakfast. This is what I did last night, to circumvent my habit of listening to overnight radio discussions. The positive impact, even after just one night, has been really significant. I will pursue these strategies in order to build greater energy in my life. This, SAO counsels, is the key to success. 

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I write about this matter, not to gloat or boast, but as a sole reminder of the benefits of living simply & ethically. 

I no longer communicate with my ex-wife, very spon after learning she had been "cheating" on me & the children, I took the she's dead to me approach. I no longer believed she was alive as the person I believed I knew her as. Any ongoing news will occasionally come throughy children.  And so my daughter has relayed to me that my ex whined & complained about her new boss, her dissatisfaction with work, her desire to quit & inability to do so due to a large mortgage. I have no compassion for her situation due to her efforts to secret away money during the marriage, & during the division of assets her willingness to force me sell the house & farm & find an income (I was the home parent), & new home for the children & I. Note, she had no interest in custody. 

Fortunately, the Judge assessed her income & lack of honest disclosure of financial assets, & a great deal of longstanding maternal detachment, & allowed me to remain here on the farm with the children. 

Years later, we have moved on; .y daughter lives with boyfriend & works on the council on the central west, my son remains with me & is working hard to secure paid work in the fire service, I have retired & settling in to a less hectic lifestyle. I am living off my own meagre savings & soon will inherit a good amount of money from the sale of my parents' home. Meanwhile exy has taken out a mortgage & as she prefers dayshift, has a low wage in nursing, her boyfriend  lives away & they don't share costs. So her much superannuation is being transferred into house repayments. There is a whole other layer of stuff, about my ability to live lightly on the planet & her opposite lifestyle, that I won't enter in to.  The whole thing gives me a contentedness to realise that living with respect for the planet & others, living within means & embracing natural beauty as a gift to be treasured, leaves one in a good place to enjoy life & be happy.