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How Getting More Sleep Made Me a Better Marketer
Every so often, I’ll have problems concentrating. I won’t be productive, even though I really want to accomplish things within my business. I’ll have no energy, and don’t know why.
When this happens, I get the bare minimum done. It’s not that I don’t want to work, I do. But I just can’t get myself to do anything more than that. My to-do list goes out the window, and I’m lucky if I am able to cross off one or two of the items that day.
It turns out, when this happens, I’m not getting enough sleep. I’ve had this happen before, and sometimes it takes more than a few days for me to realize that this is happening again.
For the last few weeks, I went to sleep late. It’s my own fault. I knew I should go to sleep and yet I wanted to read. So I stayed up late reading, but still had to get up early in the morning.
Obviously I was tired in the morning. When you don’t get enough sleep, that’s a given. Unfortunately, I also had a lot of other side effects as well. I want to pass them along, as you may not realize it but getting more sleep may help you in a lot of different ways.
Here are 7 ways that getting more sleep made me a better marketer:
