“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf
Sleep is just a killer for me.
I wish I could survive on 6 hours a night, like so many others do.
The extra 2, 3, even 4 hours could help me be so much more productive .
This is what we call a false belief.
It's not false because it isn't true. I probably would be more productive, albeit slightly, if I had an extra 4 hours to use every day.
It's false because it is blocking the true root of the problem: which is that I'm not maximizing the time I already have. What's to say I would use that extra time wisely.
No the problem isn't in how much I sleep, that's necessary for me to be at my best. The problem is making effective use of the time I have. That's what I need to work on.
The desire to create more time by sleeping less is just a cop out.
Of course the issue is too often in our lives we come across a problem and we focus on the cause that is the easiest to admit to and that's what we try to fix.
Just because a solution is easy doesn't mean it's right.
In fact when it comes to personal growth and introspection, quite often it's the difficult answer we choose not to face that is the one we truly need to deal with.
Growth is a process not a step. It doesn't stop with the effort you put in when you begin. But if you push hard enough eventually it feeds and compounds on itself. And the inertia you build up will enable you to one day wake up and realize that it no longer takes any effort to grow.
Finally, I have to give a shout out to my fellow Mt. Lebonite Christina Cindrich. I just found her on twitter last week, and I have to admit I like her.
She's smart, driven, successful and a good communicator. You can check out this article by her on the 5 DO's and DON'Ts of staying focused. It is very good and hits on a lot of things I've been talking about here.
It's also on a website called Pushydreamers.com.which I'll probably talk about soon.
Anyway Christina I wish you all the best.
