Sleep

SLEEP
Sleep as we all know is good for the body. Sleep enables you to rest from your daily activities, relaxes your body, refreshes your brain, and generally refreshes and prepares you for a new day. 8-10 hour sleep is recommended as appropriate for an adult.

However, sleep is a major inhibiting factor to success. How can this be? How can a supposedly good thing be a hindrance to another good thing? Friend, you’ve got to wake up from your sleep. If you are to become a truly successful and fulfilled person in life, then you have to minimize the number of hours you sleep. Yes, you have to minimize the number of hours you spend sleeping.

It is said that “While their mates slept, great men toiled at their experiments and came out with inventions that change the world.” Look, if you sleep for 8hrs/day, it means you have spent one-third of your life sleeping on that particular day.

Let’s take a look at this simple arithmetic. We want to consider the life of a man who slept for 8hrs/day from the age of 20 to 50. So, we are taking into consideration, 30yrs of his life.

Recall that:
1yr = 365 days
30 yrs = 30 x 365

• 10, 950 days

Since the man slept for 8hrs in each day, it therefore means that the total no of hours he slept in 30yrs (10, 950 days) = 8hrs x 10, 950 days
= 87, 600 hrs

We therefore want to know the equivalent of the number of hours he slept in days. Recall that:

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24hrs = 1 day
87,600 hrs = 87,600hrs/24hrs

• 3, 650 days

It means the man slept for 3, 650 days out of the whole 10, 950 days.

Let’s do this last calculation.

Since 365 days = 1yr

Therefore,

3,650 days = 3650days/365 days

• 10 years.

From the above calculations, it shows that out of the 30yrs of the man’s life taken into consideration, he has spent 10yrs sleeping.

Don’t be amazed! Your case is even worse than him. If your own life is taken into consideration, only God knows how many years you would have spent sleeping.

Friend, it is time to deny the eyes of sleep. You’ve got to remain dogged and determined to reach the end of your goal. It however takes the “abundant grace of God” to be able to accomplish this. Your power can do but nothing. You need to rely on God to enable you crucify sleep on the altar of grace. Why not say this prayer?

“Lord, I come before you. I plead that you pour your grace upon me so that I will be able to deny myself of sleep in order to reach the goal of my life. From today, give me the grace I need to accomplish all you have set before me. Thank you Lord for answered prayers. In Jesus name I have prayed (Amen).”

God bless you.

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