Have you heard the famous quote "I will sleep when I die"? Well, this is a motto I have been following for years. Being an entrepreneur in the entertainment business, I always felt that if you sleep all the time you would never be up on all the current news. I sit in front of my computer sometimes 12-14 hours a day researching celebrity news, gossip, blogs and industry casting calls. Being current in the entertainment industry will definitely help you succeed. Or will it?
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post. I recently watched a video on Ted.com by Arianna Huffington titled, "How to Succeed? Get More Sleep". She talks about how sleep is an important part of our life and how it can help us succeed more if we get enough of it. Arianna starts her speech out by telling her audience how two years ago she realized how much sleep was very important after fainting from exhaustion and hitting her head on the desk. The reason this stood out to me is because the similar thing happened to me.
In January 2012, I was taking a shower when I started feeling light-headed. I had been up for almost four days straight working on business with approximately six hours total of sleep. I had a big project coming up and I could care less about sleep. All I remember is waking up on the bathroom floor with blood everywhere. I had fainted and hit the edge of the bathroom sink and split my head open. I had enough energy to yell to my 12-year-old daughter to call 911. The next thing I know I woke up in the hospital with five staples in my head with a diagnosis of exhaustion and dehydration. Not only do I not eat healthy I rarely get enough sleep, so I truly understand why Arianna focuses on sleep more than anything else.
I love how Arianna focuses on women and how we can sleep our way to the top, and I don't mean the other way if you catch my drift. Let's look at this scenario for a second. If you drove a car all day 24 hours straight with no rest, what are some of the things that could happen? The car might overheat, the alternator may go out or even the battery may go dead. The reason for saying this is even a car needs it's rest, just like a human body so it can reenergize itself. So like Arianna Huffington says in her speech and I quote, "I urge you to shut your eyes and discover the great ideas that lies inside us, to shut your engines and discover the power of sleep". By doing this, we can think more clearly and be able to focus at the task at hand with a clear head.
That is a blog title that I desire more of and need to work on: getting more sleep. I know for me that with the "busyness" of life, I often forego sleep in order to finish a project. Although I may get the project done, it hurts more in the long run because I am so tired at the end. Sometimes I am so sleepy that it takes forever to do something as simple as writing or reading an email. I like the advice she gives about taking the time to "shut my eyes and discover the great ideas that lies inside". I will definitely do my best to get more sleep and watch my success increase.
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