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Monday, November 16, 2009

Sleep


I remember when I was growing up how soundly I slept. Specifically, we had a summer cabin on a lake and I would spend all day outside playing baseball, swimming in the lake, and riding my bike up and down the lake hills. At the end of the day, I was all done and the minute my head hit the pillow, I was out!

But I recall how soundly I slept. It was so full of peace and calm.

But now 29 years later, real life can take its toll and with all the real life noise, sleep is much more difficult. I don't have sleep issues but nevertheless, I long for those days when my head it the pillow it was all over...and full of peace. That's the way sleep should be.

So I am working intentionally on my sleep plan called REST

Reset
Every
Single
Time

  • When today's done, it's done (stop trying to always do more and more)
  • Be Thankful for today and rejoice in it
  • Review the day (what worked and what did not work)
  • Reset to the Big Picture...(always keep focus on the big stuff and not little details)
  • Let go and Go Up (it's not about me but rather God and his plan)
But as my teachers taught me: to get good sleep, you have to make a Intentional Plan! Like anything else, you have to work at it. I never thought about it like that but I think it's so true.
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