Eps 1534: Prioritizing Your Sleep To Get The Most Out Of Your Business
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To maximize your life as a small business, it is important to think about how the health issues caused by a lack of sleep may shift your time, energy, thoughts, and overall efforts from your business. A good sleeping routine can have a real effect on your productivity, your ability to retain new information, your physical health, and, therefore, on your ability to operate your business as effectively as possible. Getting a good nights rest may have an effect on heart disease risk factors, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Recognize that a more productive day can be felt when you have had a good nights rest, and it may make you feel like you have more time.
Getting regular, quality sleep can help you work better, decrease your reaction times, and make you feel more motivated throughout the day. Prioritizing consistent, high-quality sleep can help you navigate the demands of everyday life better, from better interactions with family, better sleep for your kids, to better relationships at work. Knowing the risks that poor sleep has for work performance, it is important that people in all fields find ways to get consistent, high-quality sleep. Consider simple tips to sleep better, from setting up a bedtime schedule to including physical activity in your routine.
Maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, including weekends, helps your body know when it is time for bed. When you deviate from your sleep schedule, it is difficult to catch up and stay on track. The good news is that by making some adjustments to your bedtime routine, and using some help from todays sleep technology, you can find yourself back on track for a restful nights rest. Creating a bedtime routine helps your brain wind down, relax, and recognize it is time to sleep.
Refraining from eating anything large for two hours before you go to sleep will make it easier to get to sleep. Cutting out sugars and high-processed foods during the day will help you sleep well at night. Sleep is fuel -- so if you are not getting at least eight hours of sleep each night, you have got to fill your tank with nutrients that provide a source of energy. There is always a drive to squeeze one last thing in or delay bedtime, but getting a good nights rest will provide much-needed resources for dealing with the demands of everyday life.
Getting good sleep does not buy you more time, but it helps you to get better at using the time you do have. Getting a good nights rest certainly improves wellbeing, but it also can increase productivity and creativity, as well as helping to promote innovation. Pay attention to when your body is tired and when it is alert to find out when is a good time to sleep. Being conscious of the huge importance of getting good sleep is not everything, unfortunately.
If you do not make getting good sleep a priority, you may be paying for it in lost hours of productivity and attention. Not getting enough sleep can also impact the way your body reacts to vaccines, another reason to prioritise getting a good nights rest. Over time, chronic sleep loss increases your risk for more serious mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, that may make it harder to be productive at work. The Journal of Sleep Research found that one nights lost sleep could also impact your major routines.
Sleep loss can leave you feeling fatigued, less creative, and more unable to focus on important projects. Being sleep-deprived just means that you are getting less sleep than your body needs, preventing it from doing its hardest work to recharge, replenish, and repair itself. If you are getting less than this consistently, you may suffer some consequences of sleep deprivation, which can have detrimental effects on everything from your gut health to your sexual desire. Sleeping late might feel great on the day, but it will disrupt your body clock and not solve the larger problem of having a consistent schedule that allows enough sleep each day.
While work schedules and stress may impact your sleep, it is also true that it is reversed. Consider all of the factors that may prevent you from getting a good nights rest: From work stresses and household duties, to unexpected challenges like illnesses. While you may not control the factors affecting your sleep, you can embrace habits that promote better sleep. Instead of losing sleep, a good nights rest has powerful returns, especially considering how a lack of sleep can lead to many health problems, from heart disease to obesity to reduced cognitive performance.
Since there are only so many hours in the day, and there are too many things to get done, the most common solution used by professionals around the world is cutting down on sleep. Since physicists still have not cracked the secrets of freezing time, working parents have had to resort to more feasible means to snooze off an uninterrupted nights rest.
While you may have been told never to go to sleep angry, getting a good nights rest can also help you handle conflicts in a more constructive way. This might sound impossible, but just like sleeping, setting aside time to talk when you are not tired may help the rest of your relationship go smoother. If you are working nights, though, you might have to take a late-afternoon snooze to help offset sleep debt.
Ideally, you should devote 8 hours to work, 8 hours to your personal life, and 8 hours to your sleep. Remember, getting plenty of sleep, drinking plenty of water, and eating healthy all help keep your mind sharp throughout your working day - particularly when that afternoon slump hits. Having a consistent sleeping routine filters stress hormones, ultimately helping your heart to ward off problems caused by stress.