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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Are you feeling lethargic, a little down, not as peppy and as charged up as you'd like to be?

Well, today, I have a prescription to cure you.

Nope, I'm not a doctor, but I bring you the conclusions made by an extensive study of over 840,000

people done by a bunch of really smart actual doctors. Doctors hailing from MIT, Harvard,

Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of

Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. So, according to them, here's

your prescription. Are you ready? Here it is. Wake up one hour earlier. Yep, it was found

that waking up only one hour earlier could reduce a person's risk of major depression and other depressive

symptoms by 23%. It is one of the first studies to quantify just how much or little change is

required to influence mental health and emotional energy. And this is important to consider

since because of the pandemic, we all went through the shift of people working from home

and kids attending school from home, and this led many people to shifting to a later sleep

schedule. So these findings have important implications. So pay close attention. By the way,

for my late night friends, the doctors in this study also found that night owls are twice as likely to suffer from depression as early risers, regardless of how long they sleep.

Okay, so that should get your attention.

On the flip side, get this, the benefits of each one hour time shift actually multiplies.

Each one hour earlier of sleep corresponds

with 23% lower risk of major depressive disorder. But put another way, if somebody who normally

goes to bed at, say, midnight, goes to bed at 11 p.m. instead and sleeps the same duration,

they could cut their risk by 23%. And if they go to bed now at 10 p.m., they could cut it

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