Sleep Your Way to Success
Roland brings up a good point about sleep on his last post. I used to be terrified about not getting enough sleep. I had the perception that when I allowed myself to be overtired I couldn’t think right, I could put in real long hours and I was always getting sick. Invariably I would get into a cycle where I either couldn’t go to sleep or would awake at 1 or 2 am. I would then torque myself up to believe that I couldn’t go back to sleep……and that, of course, was self-fulfilling.
About 10 years ago I developed a new strategy. I figured out the minimum sleep I required to function at work the next day. It was 4.5 hours. I am an early riser, but if I am short of sleep, I can sleep in to 7 am. Now, when I can sleep, I calmly know I can stay up till 2:30 without a problem. Or, if I go to sleep at 10 and wake up at 2, I know I don’t have to go back to sleep until 4. This little trick has saved me from all-nighters. I can’t stay up when there is no panic.
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