You remember, don't you? Back in the "old days," sleep tended to be seen as almost an optional thing. We high achievers considered it a luxury rather than a necessity. Getting 8 hours nightly was fine for people with too little purpose in life and too much time to waste. Our rallying cry, meanwhile, was "I'll sleep when I'm dead!"
My bride of 26 years still reminds me that 1 of my (completely serious) goals a couple of decades ago was to train myself to wake up sometime within the 3 o'clock hour each morning. Back then, it was commonplace for moguls of industry to brag to the press that they needed no more than 4 hours of shuteye a night. Anything more was deemed weak and self-indulgent.
Well, in case you missed the news—or the recent PT in Motion article1—we now know that getting sufficient sleep is vitally important. If you've pressed the snooze button on those details and haven't made sleep a cornerstone of your approach to wellness approaches with your clients, I've got a message for you: The clock's running, and it's past time you woke up.
