{"id":6385,"date":"2021-09-24T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"sleep-habit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6385","title":{"rendered":"SLEEP HABIT UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the last three nights I have successfully gotten myself into bed at 10:00 PM on the dot. It&#8217;s a little early to draw firm conclusions, I know, but I have been so encouraged by my experience that I am anxious to share already.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past three mornings I have woken up ten to twenty minutes before my alarm, set for 5:15 AM. I am finding my mornings to be more productive: I am moving faster, sooner. At least two of the last three mornings, I have been able to get 15 to 20 minutes of real exercise in before school. And both Tuesday and today after school I had enough energy to get out for a two and a half mile run.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before this week, I would often plop myself onto the couch as soon as I got home. Some days I would nap.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At school, I have been feeling sharper throughout the day. More importantly, I have been more upbeat, more optimistic, and more patient.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of my motivation for experimenting with a more regular sleep habit was from hearing someone on a podcast point out how our sleep &#8211; good or bad &#8211; affects every other area of our lives: energy, attitude, job performance, exercise, spirituality, and relationships. It made sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I am proving it to myself and I like what I am seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last three nights I have successfully gotten myself into bed at 10:00 PM on the dot. It&#8217;s a little early to draw firm conclusions, I know, but I have been so encouraged by my experience that I am anxious to share already. For the past three mornings I have woken up ten to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}