Welcome to Episode 164 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest, and it is Sunday, the 29th of November 2020. It makes me laugh how you can have almost carbon copies of one day to the next and because of one quote unquote small change, you feel completely different about. So yesterday I was very frustrated because I didn't, you know, managed to get anything done, particularly, I start, I woke up lay trained in the morning and shower and then got to work in the afternoon couldn't get anywhere blah blah blah. This morning I woke up earlier. I think I woke up at eight o'clock rather than like nine 930, because I'd had I'd gone to sleep at one but I'd actually fall asleep at one and for the first time in a while. I didn't wake up during the night so I had like a full on sleep all the way through so I woke up after seven hours and then had a nice pleasure the kind of getting up and then it's beautiful. There's nice bit of sunshine, and I sat outside had breakfast outside, and then did some stuff like some homeschooling stuff with Mina for a bit and then Leonardo came and sat on my lap and we read some stories. And it was such a leisure early morning. And then, I think I tried to do a bit of work before lunchtime but then oh that was it then we decided to get our shopping done for Christmas, because we are very generally late in all of our stuff like organising shopping and stuff so we wanted to get stuff for the kids because this will be the first Christmas that we'll have it just us, in fact, it'll be my first Christmas without either being my mom's or, conversely being at my mother in law's for pretty much ever I can remember I think it'd be the first Christmas on our own. And we really want to make it so that it's really nice for the kids because my mom always doesn't really. My mom always does a really nice cosy Christmas, you know, and there's always every year says oh we don't have much money for presence yes there's not going to be anything much, and then every year there's just tonnes of presence, and she means it as well that's what makes me laugh. And so we want to make an ice cream so we did a bit of shopping and so that was really nice you know getting stuff for the kids. And also feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves and it was lunchtime came and had lunch and then I went to do some work. I didn't have. I didn't try to do anything for myself I did stuff for clients, and I didn't get hardly any of that stuff done. But I did get some important parts of it done. And that was, that was that my day you know I didn't do any training this morning like I did yesterday I didn't do any focal practice or song practice like I did yesterday I went through my six song set yesterday I didn't do it today, and so on the, on paper I kind of did more for myself yesterday. And yet, today I feel so much better than I did yesterday. And it just basically goes to show that you have a decent night's sleep of seven hours on, you know, straight and you just feel a hell of a lot better the next day so I must remind myself when I am feeling stressed or, you know, like, not achieving or not doing stuff etc etc. to consider how much sleep I've had. And I would urge you, when you're feeling blue or down or whatever about anything to consider how much sleep you've had, because it may well be a simple case of you haven't had enough sleep, which is, you know, not exactly news to anybody ever. But nonetheless, he always, you know when you have these revelations, they still seem like news even though they're as old as the hills. And so, yeah. And now, just finishing watching a film watching Resident Evil. I've been wanting to watch it for years and never got around to it. And there's like six of the films now and just tonight follow stop. So, nearly finished the first one. I really enjoyed it I love the computer game, all those years ago. And I think the film's not too bad. And after this, I'm going to go to bed, hopefully, kind of be asleep by
