4 Hour Sleep Training – Less & More Effective

After I read this amazing interview with Dean Karnazes “On Changing Your Life” by Outside Magazine, I was absolutely captivated. Several things grabbed me with a Kung Fu Death Grip and was compelled to pay attention to. I was reading how he trained himself to sleep on only 4 hours of sleep a night and almost without hesitation, I knew I was going to go for it myself.

My average night sleep is about four hours. I absolutely believe that diet is huge in that, and learning to sleep that little was also about a month’s process. It was really, really tough. I used to set my alarm and force myself to wake up, and I’d be groggy. But what I’ve found is that now, those four hours of sleep are a really good, solid four hours, where I used to have seven or eight before, and a lot of that was restless stirring around. Now when I sleep for four hours, it’s very restorative sleep.

Dean’s famous for running 50 Marathons in 50 states in 50 days! Ok, Just think about it. Here’s an ultra-endurance runner that is only sleeping 4 hours a night!

It doesn’t make sense with everything that I’ve ever been told! And that’s why I love it so much. It’s revolutionary, it’s an adventure, an exploration into the potential of the human body and mind. And who better to be a guinea pig than myself under my own motivation into training myself first, then into my mission of training others to succeed.

So here it is. I’m committed to training myself to get all the rest that I need in 4 hours over the month of February.

I’m giving myself a time of 1 month since that’s what he says in the interview. I’ll have to see what info I can find on the subject as well. And of course if you have, or see something, hook me up and leave a comment.

Doubts? yep. The usual suspects are there and I can see the same thoughts come up for me that you probably have. But that is where I’m going to have to build focus and courage to see the doubts and still choose to redirect my attention toward knowing that I can do it. Whe

Fortunately, I got a head start since I read this article yesterday as I was writing a post I haven’t quite finished yet. And last night, this happened almost automatically, surprise surprise. So this morning I woke up at 3:30am and felt good (which is not my expectation as the month goes on). So day 1 is a success. Stay tuned.

Develop Motivational Muscle

Development, training, excellence, mastery, creativity, wealth, health, relationships, all come down to one thing:

Whatever you practice continuously, you are investing in. Every time you put your time and attention into anything it grows. Automatically! And some of the biggest gains and lessons are born out of the biggest losses or “failures.”

Every moment you are focusing on something, and by doing that you are reinforcing it. Most people are at a loss for words, when I ask them to look at a typical day and see where their attention and time gets invested. If you broke down your entire day, what is it that you’re practicing?

Here is a great article from Elaine Curry about Flex Your Motivational Muscle. What’s so fascinating about this article is how it shows that even self-motivation can be developed just like any other winning habit. This is so powerful, because the truth is that anything is possible with enough motivation.

Question: Have you ever intentionally taught yourself how to motivate yourself more than normal? Or worked with different ways of motivating yourself? See if you can find some. Or send me an email, I’m always happy to come up with some creative, fun, and powerful ideas.