Its Friday night I need something to get into.....

Scott Schwab

I wanted to spend a little time to go over something that recently I have done some research on. Sleep is something that people are not getting enough of, and continues to have adverse affects on individuals. The biggest part to getting a good night sleep, is how you schedule your day. I know this sounds a little weird, but trust me on this. You need to get up in the early morning and start your day off right. I wrote earlier in the blogs history about starting your day off right and drinking a large glass of water. The equation is to take your body weight and divide it by 2. This is how much water you should be drinking in ounces;before 6 pm, so you are not up all night visiting the bathroom. The other thing is to stimulate your mind early in the day. Read a good book or the paper, or your daily blog. As you go throughout your day, try and avoid sugars, caffeine's, and processed foods as much as possible. It has so many negative affects including lagging through the day, low energy, crash phase, and lack of motivation. The other affect is a difficulty sleeping or staying asleep. Our lives are so based on continued stimulation and we are bombarded by constant media intrusion. With this, make sure that you are taking the time to think, meditate, and express yourself in writing form or verbally. The point is this; when you expend energy, you gain energy. Your body knows and has a clock based on sleep being apart of a day. Drinking water will flush the toxins out of your body and help you to feel renewed and clean. The exercise will give your body the healthy refuel and natural tired feeling that you should have at the end of the day. Finally, stimulating the mind through reading, meditating, and expressing yourself will allow you to be calm and relax at the end of the day because you have taken the time to think about the things of your day. This is why taking the time to relax and think will allow your brain to shut down at the end of the day. All of these things being done together work for your good and help you to establish and create consistency in your life. Just like a workout regiment, it is about starting a schedule and sticking to it. So begin tomorrow by scheduling your day and doing the things that will allow you to get some beauty rest. If you do not have a schedule your body will respond to your sleep patterns like it does to jet leg. It is fact, you cannot catch up on lost sleep.

I also wanted to introduce our guest blogger for tomorrow. Aileen Taylor, is not only family, but an inspiration to all of her friends and family with the courageous life she lives. A women who is very active with her workout schedule and has accomplished great feats with competing in races and even traveling in distance countries.