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95. Napping · Just For Today

Jessica Figueroa: Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for taking just a couple minutes of your day to tune in and do this alongside me and all of our other listeners. It's so much more fun to do things together. So our exercise for just for today is to learn about napping. I am a big napping fan. I might be the president of the nap fan club. I might be nap a nap's biggest, biggest advocate. Why? I require a lot of sleep. I always have. I've envied the people that can go on five or six hours. I've never been one of them. I slept my way through school. I can't even believe I got degrees, but I've always needed a lot of sleep. But I learned about let's say late 20s that I can't just lay down and sleep for an hour or two hours every day. That's unrealistic. So I read a book and I sleep-trained myself, just like you would a toddler. And I taught myself how to take short naps. Really, truly, there was an exercise. You held a pencil when the pencil fell out of your hand, you woke you up, you did it so many days in a row, and eventually you didn't need to hold the pencil. It's really cool. But naps are more than just rest. A short 20-minute nap can increase alertness, improve concentration, boost your memory, enhance problem solving. There was even a study done by NASA that says that a 20 pilots who took an average of a 26-minute nap had a 34% improvement in performance. And a 54% increase in alert alertness. They've proven their science saying that naps will reduce stress. Athletes use naps as training tools. so I, and there's many, many cultures that have embraced napping, Spain, Greece, China, Italy. So I want you to find ways to embrace napping into your life. But I'm not talking about a long nap, I'm talking about a short one. And you do have to train yourself. So there there was something I read when I was reading my book that said right when your the drool starts to come out, that's when it's time to wake up. So there is some trick that says drink a cup of coffee. It takes about 20 minutes for the caffeine to kick in and then nap right what after you drink it and then the caffeine will wake you up. But you can do different tricks to train yourself to wake up right at the 20 minute mark. And if you can get in this habit, it will serve you well. I can do it almost anywhere, anytime. I have trained myself to just take this. Sometimes it's as short as eight minutes. It depends how long it takes me to fall asleep. But there's a lot of value in that. So if adjust for today, we're gonna Practice the art of napping and know that it does take time. It will take you two or three weeks of really trying to get good at it. But once you have this art down, you can do it whenever, wherever. Bring a sleep mask, get that nap in. Sleep is paramount to being able to grow and change and do what we do here together. So just for today, we're gonna think about those cat naps and work on getting better at them. I'll see you tomorrow. I'll be sleeping.