I would rather use this money towards organic and sustainable foods. The $1500 annual estimate is $28.80 per week saved by not wasting food. I can use that saving to replace bargain groceries with organic produce and proteins, which are often more expensive. Instead of walking past the organic produce and proteins in the store, I can go ahead and choose them, knowing that by not wasting food this week, I actually "banked" almost $30 towards better quality and more sustainable foods.

This is a hard challenge. I work all day and get home late, so I prepare a nice meal and combine dinner with watching my favorite news channels. It is hard to break this habit. 

This is tough. I don't seem to think of exercising with any anticipation of enjoying it, even though i know there is an inherent benefit. It is said that exercise releases "endorphins" in the brain what actually does make one feel pleasant. I don't think I have ever tried to be consciously aware of that feeling. An experiment: go to the gym and ride the bike or swim about 12 laps. Then sit quietly and make a conscious effort to be aware of how I feel. Is there a pleasurable feeling from released endorphins? I will try this experiment  tomorrow after work. 

I need to feel less overwhelmed and anxious by effect of the greed and oppression in the world. I recently stumbled on a passage from C.S. Lewis in a letter to his good friend Owen Barfield during the horrors of war in Europe in June 1940. Lewis tells his friend, “The real difficulty is...to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so intolerable.” And he then goes on to say,  “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” And in these words there seems to be a marvellous high mystery hiding, that gives hope in the courage and goodness in others and in oneself to not only get through the trouble, but to be somehow a force of good.