SLEEP AND SUCCESS

Eric Thomas is a motivational speaker, author, activist, and a minister. 

Interesting fact: I am a huge fan of powerful and inspirational quotes

 

 I actually send out daily quotes to my loved ones. One of my recent favorites is from Mr. Thomas. 

So what's the quote? 

"Most of you don't want success as much as you want sleep." 

I would love to assume that anyone reading this would not fit into this category but would that be wise? 

Many people say they want to be successful but they don't want it bad, they just kind of want it. 

One of the first quotes I can remember learning is, "the early bird gets the worm" meaning that sleeping all day doesn't usually lead to you achieving your goal!

Now I know that some of you MC squared individuals are saying, 

"but you need 8 Hours of sleep..."

Blah Blah Blah. 

Let's look at the sleeping patterns of people that many (maybe even you) consider successful and then we will see if you "need" 8 hours of sleep anymore.

• Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and Square CEO: 4-6 hours of sleep

• Tom Ford, fashion designer and director: 3 hours of sleep

• Barack Obama, President of the United States: 6 hours of sleep

• Donald Trump, chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts: 3-4 hours of sleep

• Thomas Edison, was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb: 3-4 hours of sleep
  
  

There are many other examples I could name but I wanted to show people from different walks of life. 

Overall the magic number for success seems to be between 3-6 hours of sleep. Assuming the rest of the time is spent working you should see great results! 

There is no arguing with the fact that sleep is essential to living a healthy life and longer sleep can be beneficial.

 Also depending on ones goals one can be successful if they sleep more. 

For example: Mariah Carey likes to sleep 15 hours before she sings (I can almost guarantee on the rise to stardom she did not). 

The point of all this is to say in order for you to achieve your goals it will take sacrifices no matter what and if your not able to give up a few Z's then maybe SUCCESS is not in the stars for you.

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- Peace