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Richard's tips for getting a good night's sleep

Getting a good night's sleep is the key factor of keeping well and keeping mentally sharp. 

I think if you're in a stressful position, it helps you to maintain the emotion that you might need to control.

It helps to keep you balanced, sharp, focused. It helps you deal with the challenges that life is inevitably going to throw at you. 

A good night's sleep for me is always eight hours. So if I get up early, I go to bed early.

Physical exercise is really important. With some of my stressful jobs that I've had, I found that I was mentally tired, but my body had virtually done nothing at all. 

I think a good diet is another key component.  I think you've got to switch the digital stuff off an hour before you go to sleep.

And the other factor, and not everyone can follow it or be as lucky as me.

To be able to, uh, snuggle up against the right person.