For a human to be happy it usually takes a balance amongst lots of important areas of our lives. To my mind a balance is something that is most hard to achieve…
It’s quite easy to focus on your work, for example, and miss on such things as family or healthy sleep. Or to be very content with your personal life, while not having personal income or at least not from a job that you love.
And there are more of those – relationships with family or friends, spiritual aspects, personal development, sports and so on.
To juggle all those areas and achieve a happy medium everywhere – it’s kind of impossible, I believe. But what as recommended to do is find and chose your priorities to work on for a certain time, trying to shift them to develop in various areas and be happy, as well as improve the area that will will make your other areas improve along with it.
For quite a long time I thought that my priority area for now is my Finance area. And quite consciously I’ve chose the area of health as the one that is not important for now, thinking that I’ll return to it in a year or so.
So, how’s doing my theory in practice? 🤔
Yesterday I’ve found myself working till 5 am, and now getting up at 7 am as my daughter woke up and needed my attention. Needless to say that this provoked my thinking about how healthy such a situation is for my life. I also kind of noticed that lately I usually go to sleep very late and get up quite early, and then during the day I don’t feel very well.
This also makes me so tired that I have no power to cook healthy food. This ends in eating various fast food type meals and thus also impacts my health. Not only mine, actually, but also the health of my family, to be honest. My bad diet also includes quite a lot of coffee. Maybe not so lot for some of you, but quite a lot for me – at least a cup of coffee a day, and sometimes twice of them.
Having this sort of wild schedule, yesterday was the day when I first missed my morning rituals just because I was too sleepy and powerless.
This is why I feel now strongly, that I need to change something. I’ll try to start with going to sleep not later than 11 pm. To my mind, sleep is the most important aspect of all when speaking of health. And it’s important not to sleep as much as you can, but to have a balance in this aspect. One needs to get as much sleep as is needed to his or her body, but not to oversleep as it provokes you to be less effective and less active.
FACTS OF INTEREST ABOUT SLEEP
💤 Did you know that bad and short sleep is considered to by straight road to abesity? Researches show that this is true for both adults and children. You seleep less – you gain more weight and become obese.
💤 If one sleeps less than seven hours, it increases the risk of 💛 heart disease and stroke.
💤 Sleep is essential for strong immune system. Those who sleep less that seven hours tend to catch cold that those who sleep more.
💤 Sleep is crucial for brain health. By getting rid of toxins, sleep “clears waste” from our brain. It’s also very important for forming memories as actual “writing down” of what we’ve learnt during the day into the memory happens during the sleep.
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