021: Keys to Getting Your Best Sleep Ever
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Should you streamline the amount of sleep you get each night. How much sleep do you really require? There are a few factors that go into answering this question and today's episode is all about sleep and how it will help you to reach peak productivity. Through researching the brain and sleep myths & facts, I'll give you the best strategies to help you understand and create good sleep habits.
What's In this Episode:
• Understand why sleep is so important to repair & restore our bodies.
• Hear the story of Peter Trip and the repercussions of staying awake for 201 hours.
• Learn how the different parts of your brain are affected when you lack sleep.
• Discover the factors that help tell you how much sleep you need.
• Check the seven signs that let you know if you're really sleep deprived.
To get access to the free download Five Minutes to Peak Productivity, go to inkwellpress.com/podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at Inquilpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 21. |
| 0:28.1 | Today, we are talking all about sleep. |
| 0:32.1 | And I'm going to give you a little bit of fair warning. |
| 0:35.0 | I am totally, completely nerding out during this episode |
| 0:38.7 | because I knew I wanted to talk about sleep. |
| 0:42.0 | Because when we talk about streamlining, as we've done throughout this entire season, |
| 0:46.7 | we talk about finding time by editing out the parts in our day that are unimportant. |
| 0:52.5 | Unfortunately, the first place a lot of people want to look to is cutting back on sleep. |
| 0:59.0 | After all, when you think about spending almost one-third of your day on this one activity, |
| 1:05.0 | it seems, well, kind of ridiculous. |
| 1:08.0 | Especially sleeping. |
| 1:10.0 | You're not really doing anything so people think maybe |
| 1:13.6 | this is a place in your day that you can cut back on right so i wanted to do a little bit of research |
| 1:19.5 | so i dug deep and looked into the brain research and i read studies and did all that fun stuff |
| 1:25.2 | that i love to do and i found so much good information in there that I really wanted to share it all with you. |
| 1:32.5 | So bear with me today as I talk a lot about how brains work and how sleep works. |
| 1:37.6 | But I really don't want you to make the mistake of thinking that sleep is the space in your day that you can edit, |
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