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The Way To Stop Feeling Guilty Is To Read Stuff - I'm Not Saying My Book, But Works By Bertrand Russell Or Oscar Wilde, People Who Weren't Losers But Who Didn't Believe In The Work Ethic, And Argued This Thing About Guilt Or Wrote Philosophy About Idleness.

What I've Found In Working Less Is You Start To Get A Bit More Involved In The More Real Politics, Which Is Local Politics That Affect What's Going On In Your Own Community.

Part Of This Individualism Is You Feel This Pressure That You Alone Have To Conquer The World, And If You Don't Work All The Hours God Gives Then You Start Feeling Really Guilty. If You Can Stop Feeling Guilty, Then I Think It's Easier To Start Doing What You Want To Do.

I've Given Up Email. Well, Almost. At The Weekend I Set Up One Of Those Auto-reply Messages, Informing My Correspondents That I Would No Longer Be Checking My Emails, And That Instead They Might Like To Call Or Write, As We Used To In The Olden Days.

When People Say " I Just Don't Have Enough Time " They Mean " I Prioritized Something Else.