An Ignoble Experiment: Seeds of SUCCESS - Steps to Improve Your Sleep Routine

2010/09/28

Seeds of SUCCESS - Steps to Improve Your Sleep Routine

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	September 28, 2010 - Vol. 3 Issue 30

Steps to Improve Your Sleep Routine

Want to get smart? Get more sleep. Dr. Carolyn Dean, Valentine Dmitriev and Donna Raskin in their book 365 Ways to Boost Your Brain say sleep plays an imperative role in cognitive function. "Sleep allows the brain to juggle the input of new information," the authors write. Here are some surprising ways to improve your REM time.

Establish a bedtime routine to help your body and mind relax. Just like your children thrive on a consistent bedtime routine, you can too. Watch your favorite episodic series every night before bed, read a chapter of a book or do the same nighttime beauty routine. This consistency will signal your brain that it's time to go to bed.

Get regular sunlight or bright light during the day to help sleep better at night. This helps set your body's internal clock, signaling the difference between daytime and night. As such, levels of melatonin, your body's naturally occurring hormone that causes drowsiness, rise as darkness falls.

Eat before bed. While it may seem counterintuitive, consider eating a light snack before bedtime if you tend to get hungry during the night. Foods such as bananas, oatmeal, whole-wheat bread, turkey and chamomile tea are all conducive to sleep.

LATEST BLOG POST
Reaching the Peak of Your Potential (part 2)
by Darren Hardy

Last week we started a journey together through Maslow's 8-Ways to Self-Actualize with my supplemented editorial and action steps to help you actually actualize Maslow's principles.

We traversed through the first 4-steps so far. Many of your realizations and mental breakthroughs mentioned in the comments were very inspiring. Just reading them made me want to step up my game last week. Thank you!

This week we will complete the journey with steps 5 – 8. Imagine this as your climb of Mount Everest (the peak of your potential) and you have made it all the way to Camp IV (you've mastered Maslow's steps 1 – 4). Now you have what is called "The Final Push" left to go to "summit" the mountain. Well, Maslow's steps 5 – 8 are your Final Push. Let's go!

5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.

This one comes naturally to me. I am an anti-conformist by nature. I recommend it to you as well. One of the greatest strengths of leadership is the willingness to do what is unpopular. (Read: The Unpopular View of Leadership)

Don't follow the herd. Don't do what's fashionable, trendy or popular. What's popular is what's common. Do what's common and you will get common results (aka mediocrity). You are looking for uncommon outcomes, extraordinary achievements.

To do this you will have to do what Jim Rohn talked to us about—walk away from the 97%.

Don't use their vocabulary and don't use their excuses. Don't use their method of drift and neglect. Walk away and join the 3%. Take charge of your own life.

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