Because too many of us don't:
"It’s midnight and Carolyn Donaldson is clacking away on her keyboard. Although she’s yawning, it might be another hour before Donaldson's head hits the pillow. Meanwhile, Donaldson is zipping off e-mails to members of one of the three nonprofit boards she sits on. She’s coming up with new marketing strategies for her son’s fitness business and she's working on projects for her own consulting clients. With only 24 hours in a day, she's willing to give up sleep to get more done. And, so it goes with American workers today. We push our bedtime back to fit in extra work. We get up early for a jump-start on the competition. Our disrespect for sleep has become a national epidemic. “People look at sleep as expendable,” says psychologist Diane Halpern of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., author of “Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family.” In a Working Mother survey, a stunning 77 percent of mothers said they don’t get the shut-eye they need. A survey by Men’s Health shows men aren’t doing much better. Indeed, 62 percent said they manage on less than seven hours of sleep a night."
I'm sure this is an issue in our community, too. We have moms and dads of Moebius kids who work at their daily jobs to bring in the bacon; and also have to attend to the special needs of their child. We have Moebius adults who, owing to the occasional prejudices of society against those with physical differences, know they have to work extra hard to try and get ahead. I know there are times when I don't get enough sleep. I always figure that, oh, well, I'll catch up on my sleep tomorrow, or on the weekend, or whenever a vacation comes. But it's hard to catch up. We do need to try, though. Sleep is important.
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and
go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Howard Thurman
No comments:
Post a Comment