intro⌗

We are in an ever-increasingly busy world, everything we want to do is hindered by other things such as taking care of your niece, or making sure that you’re up to speed with what happened with Kim K last week. Even if you resist falling to these temptations, you could fall to others of similar nature.

Previously, I wrote on thoughts of how naturally the world produces noise. One thing I failed to mention is how much sleep can affect your productivity and sense of self.

I maintain that sleep is vital to accomplishing one’s hopes and dreams; sleep constitutes one third of a human being’s life. Good sleep is essential to creativity and healthy recovery.

More so than that, there are benefits that add onto efficient sleep that we do not pay attention to. This article’s intention is to highlight how many benefits good sleep can provide and how to use good sleep to increase your productivity.

Note: I am not a sleep expert; my only sleep experience comes from actually experiencing it for 20 years. This is not a substitute for professional or medical advice.

sleeping like a baby: an anecdote⌗

There is an experience that we all go through as human that we can’t get enough of which is sleeping like a baby. We’ve all had that one sleep session that once we finished it, we felt completely energized and ready to conquer the day. It shows in our attitude, our work and how we interact with others.

Good sleep definitely affect how our mood is going, and our mood thereby affects our whole day. There is a big difference between doing something with passion and without. We can feel it and others can too.

What I’m trying to illustrate is that we shouldn’t avoid bad sleep but strive for perfect sleep. We should deal with sleep the same way we deal with music, by searching for what makes us feel better.

Even if it didn’t increase our productivity, we should want to sleep better just so we can enjoy the last two thirds of life more. It is absolutely necessary to prioritize good sleep.

waking early: an anecdote⌗

Waking up early is vital to productivity in my opinion. When we wake up early and we see that no one else is awake, we begin to focus on what we should do in the day and how to handle it. It gives us more time to plan and think before we march onto the battlefield of daily life.

Whilst waking early isn’t necessary, it is optimal. It doesn’t relate much to work productivity but it relates a great deal to life and daily productivity. Planning ahead helps with accomplishing things.

Furthermore, because you woke up early today, you get to enjoy distraction-less and peer pressure-less experience and thought. You could meal prep, read a book or two, meditate at how beautiful the day or night is. Not there is magically more time, but time is being used more efficiently because you know what to do.

a combination of both⌗

Imagine how much life could be better if you woke up energized and without anything to distract you off of what you want to do. Feeling connected to life itself, you start to work but with a different perspective, you start to work because you enjoy work. It becomes a playground for your transcendence. Slowly, you get to acclaim more power while being focused on what really matters in your life. You get to avoid the natural pitfalls that people fall into because you have spent 3 hours per day, because you wake up early, reflecting and meditating on what life is and has to offer to you.

Life isn’t so ugly anymore. It isn’t black and white anymore. It just is and you appreciate it for its existence. With that comes an acceptance of death, and with the acceptance of death comes a whole host of things that you could do without fear. Because, all fear stems from death itself.

Although, this might seem a little on the perfectionist side, it is a belief that I feel innately. To put it into practice depends on each person as our approach to achieving our goals is almost always unique. At worst, this article is a little naive on what humans can achieve through themselves. At best, this article serves a greater purpose than occasional entertaining reading material.