Making this one of my 43things was one of the smartest things I ever did because if helped me to confront my sleeping patterns and ‘force’ myself to change. I am now sleeping 7-8 hours a night! and I cannot believe how different I feel. I am amazed at the physical difference. If asked before I would not have said I felt bad or anything, but now that I have been sleeping so much and so regularly I can tell that I was feeling bad operating low-key. I was just used to feeling a certain way I guess. I am a high-energy person, so my low-key seemed ok and regular or normal to me. Now I feel boundless in energy, like I am just this well-spring of life and zest. I feel youthful and sparky. It is just awesome how sleeping so much makes me feel. I don’t know how I was living on just 4 hours of sleep a night, man! My lack of sleep made me forgetful, disorganized, forgetful, messy, forgetful, and even more forgetful. I am amazed I got as much done as I did considering how much I forgot to do. I am just know finding out/discovering how much stuff did not get done in 2005 because I forgot to do it. Cleaning up my home office I found stickies and other notes for many iddferent things, many time over. My word.

It is wonderful to not only be high-energy but also to be able to feel high-energy and take advantage of that. It took a lot of effort on my part and an attempt with a sleep-aid (which did not work) for me to understand I just needed to change my attitude in regard to sleep, to not fight going to sleep. Which is basically all it was, me mentally fighting sleep like a little kid.