Time Management – Sleep
“What’s your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur?”
This question was asked recently in one of my groups. I was looking at the responses, and what I was noticing was there was a very large percentage of answers having to do with time management, focus, consistency, and believing in ourselves.
Some of the responses were….
- Balancing family time and business time;
- Just plain old time management;
- Managing my own time, not enough time in the day,
- Getting rest; I never sleep.
For this article, I am focusing on time management: sleep because several people brought up SLEEP in their responses. In this series, time management for the distracted entrepreneur, this week we are in the health layer. Next week I’m going to move up to the environment layer, and today I’m going to stay in the health layer with a focus on sleep.
Many times I hear: “ I want to get more things done in my day.” When I’m coaching people, whether it be in my Discover Your Greatness through the Productivity Success Cake program, or high level one-to-one, what ends up happening is an “unpeeling.” We peel back the layers of what is going on. So for example if my client wants to get up earlier….we have to start with bedtime.
Get a slice of your Productivity Success Cake here
Now you can see that time management in the day actually begins the night before. Since we are talking about the night before, we want to talk about Sleep. So today, that’s why I want to focus on Sleep.
I’d like to leave you with a practical tip and a thought provoking question. First, the question.
If I say I’d like to go to bed by 10:30 PM, for example, what’s preventing that? And usually the answer is “things that are important” to you. So maybe you are spending time with loved ones watching TV or maybe you are doing projects late at night because it is light out later. Whatever it is, you value THAT THING in the moment over getting to bed.
Now for the practical tip.
You can do this with an Android, or with an iPhone. If you take that home button on the right hand side, and you do three clicks, you get a red tone to your screen, and that red tone blocks out the blue light.
The blue light keeps us awake at night. It lights up a certain part of our brain that doesn’t allow us to rest. So if you are looking to get more sleep, focus on sleep for the next week or two…the SLEEP slice of your cake.
Try it, and, if you’re having trouble with it, you can always send me an email. You can also join the UnScatterMe Facebook Community and say, Hey, I’m having trouble with the sleep slice. Does anybody want to join in with me and we can support one another?
We are all in this together…. baking our cakes! If you are REALLY interested in getting faster, consistent results, please know that there is an opportunity coming up to go even DEEPER into the cake process so you can truly level your life up beyond what you might have imagined.
So, if you are wondering “how do I really get more support with this?”
Mark your calendars for the 5th of September, because we are going to be doing Time management for the Distracted Entrepreneur in a workshop format from 11:00 to 1:00 Eastern. There is a fee for this meaty opportunity. And half goes to my favorite charity!
I will be putting the link in the comments below and you will want to sign up for that and you can start now. So start with your sleep. Try out the red light idea, and let me know your results!
If sleep is not your issue, try something else on the health layer of that cake, and see how you do.
Start with a strong foundation of health, so that I can help you with your time management. See you Sept 5!
Book your space on the Time Management Workshop here