Jul 06

Lifelong Toleration Handled

Hello frequent readers! Hello first time visitors! I say hello to you during a perfectly sane hour - well, almost. It’s 9:45 p.m. and I’m jotting this for you minutes before I indulge my lower brain in half an hour of pulp television, reality TV style. (Actually, it may be pulp TV, but I watch it with a social scientist’s eye, looking for how the people are communicating, handling stress, concocting silly realities and - just how much they can eat and drink before creating some new eye-rolling moment.)

Have any of you noticed I’ve been posting less frequently lately? Want to know why? Simple: I finally, FINALLY(!) handled one of the all-my-adult-life tolerations…insomnia.

Now, if you know anything about me from direct experience or by proxy reading the content of this site, you know I’m a thinka. Yep, I think a LOT. That’s all well and good during daylight hours, but it positively ROTS during the wee hours after midnight.

After many years of sleepless nights I finally went to see el doctor and asked for some help. “Help” was a euphemism, of course. What I really wanted was a prescription - something that would help me sleep. My only stipulations was that it not be physiologically addictive, as many prescription sleep aids are. Happy as a sleeping dog, I can report to you I now have a way to make it through a night without waking up six times and reading (or posting my BLOG entries) for three hours.

So, this is one big apology to you all and one big admission from me - sometimes I forget to practice what I preach!

I had been tolerating insomnia for years. Telling the flagrant truth - I had actually been getting a bit of a kick out of suffering it, especially when I realized how much writing I could produce while bleary eyed - some of it quite good, if I do brag so myself.

Alas, I have now put my sleep aid where my mouth is and eliminated something that had been dragging me down for DECADES! May I offer this pair of lessons to you:

Sometimes the “coach” is a lousy student - until he finally “gets it” himself - AND -while I may be less productive at insane hours now that my insomniatic suffering has ended, I am more happily productive during the day.

Yeah, there’s that annoying word: Happy. Sorry to bug you with the notion that we should be happy in our lives as often as possible. Seems we adults are too proud of what we can endure. More often than not, those things that we’re just putting up with day in and day out, year in and year out are keeping us from being truly happy. Silly. Because, JOY is the ultimate mental state for TOP performance and CREATIVITY. JOY, Happiness! Pity so few execs are acquainted with this truth.

Remember that - and get to work eliminating the nagging and hassling, weighing-you-down-like-a-horse-shoe-necklace things that you’re putting up with. HANDLE YOUR HASSLES! TACKLE YOUR TOLERATIONS in all areas in which we have authority and responsibility. Let’s GET TO WORK! (Pssst! I can help you with that.)

This message was brought to you by the soon-to-be-sleeping Coach, David Fazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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