Welcome to Episode 205 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest and it is Saturday, 30th of January, 2021, and it's been the longest time between my episodes, I think it's been five or six days so it gets nearly a week. And it's also the first time I have it's the first time but it's certainly the new switch for me because I'm going to be probably doing my podcast episodes in the morning, rather than in the evening when I'm going to bed. And therein lies the tale of why I've not done it for the last few days. I think probably yeah 24th. So, the 24th was last Sunday 25th was Leonardo's birthday. And I was going to be working majority of the day we can have a little party in the afternoon for a couple hours. And in the end, I didn't do much work, and we partied all afternoon, and I drank a fair bit as did Simona and we had a really nice relaxed afternoon and a really lovely and late evening. And so I didn't do my podcast. But, as part of that, because, you know, we're so do do I mean I'd worked I think something like 10 or 13 days or something without a break and I'd been doing, you know, kinda like 10 1012 hour days I guess most days. And I just I don't take breaks and I hadn't left the house. And it was just all constantly go go go. And I was pretty, pretty burnt out pretty tired. And I think on the Sunday just before, in fact, on the 24th I think I took the day off and then I sort of accidentally took Leonardo's birthday off on the 25th, and on the 26th I was so tired because we've got to bed so late, that I was, you know, wasn't gonna do any work. And that was the Tuesday and then the Wednesday I tried to do work but it was slow getting into it because I'd had three days off and I'd actually dare say it relaxed and unwound. And then you know it's been a process the last few days of trying to get myself back into back into working. And what happened also is because, you know, it was nice and relaxed so we had a bit of time, you know, we were talking similar and I about, you know, our plans and what we're doing and our routines and how we're working and, you know, we realised quite obviously that we just we spend too much time focusing on work and being productive and doing stuff that needs doing and not enough time on fun and on relaxation and on these kind of things. And the two of us came up with a very simple and obvious thing that we wanted to try, which is to go to bed earlier. And that's particularly prevalent for Simona because for eight years she's been going to bed, more or less, when I go to bed so fairly late, but then getting up a few times during the night with the kids, and then waking up really early with Leonardo, or with Mina first and then with Leonardo. And as a consequence, she's basically chronically sleep sleep deprived. And of course if you're like that you're, you're not going to have the energy, you're not gonna have the focus and the willpower and the motivation to do things that you might normally do. And so, you know, we thought well this is a really simple idea let's, let's get to bed earlier, you know, if I get to bed earlier then Simona doesn't feel like she should be staying up because otherwise we don't get time together or whatever and equally, if she goes to bed earlier. I'm bit more motivated circa well if I go to bed earlier what I wanted to do this year was be getting up earlier, but I realised I've been focusing on the wrong thing I've been focusing on getting up, but getting up is the. It's like the the effect, not the cause, you know the cause of getting up at 630 or something, is because you go to bed at 930 or 10 o'clock or something. But if I just focus on trying to get up at 630, and even I know I should be going to bed earlier I know this sounds like a completely obvious thing and it is completely obvious, but sometimes you know it takes a few times to kind of for something to really the penny to drop as it were. And so, since then we've been like okay let's get to bed earlier