{"id":3124,"date":"2015-11-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyliving.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2015-11-11T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:51:46","slug":"how-one-inspiration-transformed-the-way-i-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyliving.com\/2015\/11\/11\/how-one-inspiration-transformed-the-way-i-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Inspiration Transformed the Way I Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/p>\n

\u201cSleep is the best meditation.\u201d
\n(Dalai Lama)<\/p>\n

I believe inspiration can hit me in any form, from anywhere, and at anytime\u2026 but this one surprised me.<\/p>\n

Sitting on my back porch this past summer, watching Super Soul Sunday<\/a> on my computer, one of the most powerful women in the world inspired me to sleep only with my wife.<\/p>\n

Oprah Winfrey was interviewing Arianna Huffington, founder of the popular Huffington Post<\/a>. They were talking about Arianna\u2019s #1 New York Times Best Seller, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arianna shared about an experience that changed her life and inspired her to write her fourteenth book1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually collapsed from exhaustion on April 6, 2007, two years after I had founded The Huffington Post. I hit my head on my desk. Broke my cheekbone. Got four stiches on my right eye. I was very lucky I didn\u2019t lose my eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

The doctors found nothing wrong with her medically, but the incident made her reflect on the way she was leading her life and what she was prioritizing.<\/p>\n

Sitting in a doctor\u2019s waiting room, she began asking herself one of the big questions of life, \u201cIs this success?\u201d<\/p>\n

Working eighteen-hour days, seven days a week left her with little time or energy for anything else. It was obviously taking a serious physical toll on her. She collapsed and woke in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n

She became determined to make some big changes in her life. Defining success based on the two conventional factors of money and power was not enough. Success for her life needed to include something she calls \u201cthe third metric.\u201d She would redefine success to make room for these four pillars:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wellbeing<\/li>\n
  2. Wisdom<\/li>\n
  3. Wonder<\/li>\n
  4. Giving<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the biggest change she made in her life was in her sleep habits. She began prioritizing sleep every night. \u201cThat changed everything,\u201d she says, \u201cI would wake up re-charged!\u201d<\/p>\n

    These are the changes she made in her sleep habits:<\/p>\n