Sleep is more important than food. Those of you who know me must be wondering if I have lost my mind. But I came to realize you could go a week without food and the most you would lose is weight. Try going 24 hours without sleep and you are unable to function effectively. The research is overwhelming that most of us need seven to eight hours of sleep nightly to feel rested, have more naturally sustained energy and focus better. An incredibly small number among us can survive on seven hours or less sleep.
You delude yourself if you think you can stay awake until all hours of the night, consistently get less than seven or eight hours of sleep, and be fully rested and functional.
Here is the challenge most of us who are sleep deprived have to face: We have no idea how dysfunctional we are until we start getting sufficient sleep and see the difference in our productivity, alertness, focus and energy.
ent, or of our lives. There is no such thing as life without anger, for God created us with a capacity for it.
When dancing, if you are out of sync with your partner the dance neither looks good nor ends well. Being in sync with your dance partner is largely about awareness: what is the next move, how do you respond, what’s the appropriate next step? In the same way, when you interact with others, if you lack the ability to detect the emotions of others – especially family, friends, and colleagues – those interactions usually neither look good nor end well. Last week we looked at the aspects of EQ that pertain to becoming aware of and managing your emotions. This week let’s look at the aspects of EQ that relate to social awareness of others’ feelings, then using that awareness to manage those relationships in healthy, meaningful, and productive ways. Daniel Goleman provides a model that refers to two moves in the dance of relating to others: social awareness and social skill.