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    Sanity Savers
    Sanity Savers
    Sanity Savers
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    Sanity Savers

    By Peter Mulraney

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    Living alone and feeling bored or lonely?

    You need to read this book.

    Sanity Savers, written specifically for men living alone following the end of long-term relationships, is packed with ideas for doing interesting things with your time.
    Inside you’ll find seven boredom-busting strategies for using your alone time, each illustrated with numerous tips.

    You will also find two strategies for avoiding loneliness, which highlight the value of committing to personal growth and engaging with others.

    Sanity Savers is a reminder that being on your own does not mean you have to stay home alone.

    Be kind to yourself - buy a copy today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Mulraney
    Release dateMar 10, 2015
    ISBN9780992426989
    Sanity Savers
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    Peter Mulraney

    Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he’s married and has two grown children.He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant. Now, he gets to write every day instead.He is the author of the Inspector West and Stella Bruno Investigates crime series; the Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship; and the Everyday Business Skills series for people looking to take advantage of his knowledge and skills.As a mystic, he has written several books which explores some of life's deeper questions, including Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, and My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living.

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      Book preview

      Sanity Savers - Peter Mulraney

      Sanity Savers

      Sanity Savers

      9 strategies for enjoying life for men living alone

      Peter Mulraney

      Copyright © 2015 Peter Mulraney

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN: 978-0-9924269-8-9

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Reading

      Writing

      Learning a new skill

      Exercising

      Growing things

      Serving

      Having fun

      Staying connected

      Befriending yourself

      Summary

      A note from Peter

      Also by Peter Mulraney

      Introduction

      Being on your own, following the end of a long-term relationship, can be quite daunting. It often presents challenges, like boredom and loneliness.

      My intention, in writing this book, is to introduce you to some strategies that will help you keep your sanity intact.

      In what follows, I share seven strategies for finding constructive or interesting ways to use your alone time, and two personal growth and development strategies you can use to stay connected with the world, and to explore some of life's more intriguing questions.

      These strategies will remind you that there are things you can do, things you can learn, places you can visit, and friends you can make. They also highlight the value of making commitments to your personal growth and engaging with others.

      Over the last several years I have spent a fair amount of time on my own. My long-term relationship may not have ended when my wife accepted a position in another country, but it certainly changed form.

      Since finding myself on my own for months at a time, I have employed the strategies I am sharing with you to write several books, focus on my spiritual journey, establish a blog, and stay connected to my extended family. I've also acquired a set of new skills, related to self-publishing and online marketing, had a lot of fun, met some interesting people, and travelled.

      To be honest, I haven't had the time to feel bored or lonely.

      I recommend that you explore some of the activities suggested in the first seven strategies. Discover which ones work for you and make the most of what they have to offer.

      I encourage you to embrace strategies eight and nine: staying connected and befriending yourself. I believe these are essential for the ongoing sanity of anyone living alone.

      Reading

      You're reading this book, so I guess it's safe to assume you already know something about the value of reading. I know a lot of guys who read the paper, well at least the sports pages, and think that's all there is to reading. We're going a bit further than that.

      In my experience, reading is one of the more enjoyable pastimes for someone living alone. It's not expensive, it can be done almost anywhere, and it's more active and engaging than watching TV, which the neuroscientists describe as a passive activity. If you want to keep your brain active and increase your chances of not getting dementia, reading is a better choice than TV, simply because you need to use active imagination when you read. If you're not quite sure what that means, consider that what you see on the TV is always someone else's visual interpretation of the story - whether you're watching the history channel or the news. When you're reading the story in words, you get to dream up your own visual interpretation or mental pictures of the words, based on your unique perspective of the world. That's the bit that exercises your brain cells.

      Reading is an activity that can be done for several different reasons, which we'll explore in the following sections.

      Reading for entertainment

      This is the world

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