August 22, 2016 • 00:32:38

494 – How To Improve Your Sleep - James Schramko SuperFast Business Online Business Coaching

Danny Flood Episode highlights: 01:12 – The tale of a former insomniac 02:59 – Do you know if you’re sleep deprived? 04:57 – An invention destructive to your sleeping habits 06:39 – Try this productivity hack 08:19 – Quick recap 08:46 – 5 factors to be synched for good sleep 10:02 – What is the circadian rhythm? 13:27 – The sleep toxin 15:48 – Is caffeine good or bad? 19:12 – Practice the process of substitution 21:42 – Reducing your cortisol level 26:19 – You need to eat THIS 27:56 – The 4 brain waves of sleep 29:10 – Have you tried sleep restriction? Restructure your life using the training resources and support inside SuperFastBusiness Membership Download the PDF transcription and 8 Ways To Get Better Sleep guide Transcription: James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today, we’re delving into the topic of sleep, how to improve your sleep, with Danny Flood from OpenWorldMag.com. Welcome, Danny. Danny: Hey James, thanks so much for having me here. It’s always a pleasure to speak with you. James: Well, it’s nice to pin you down. I know you’re on travel at the moment, and you’re somewhere in the outposts of Thailand, so I’m also glad that you could join us and share some of your insights into how to improve your sleep. You’ve actually got a product on Amazon called Hack Sleep. I know you’ve done some research around this, you’ve got a body of work that presents your findings, and I know that most of my audience sleep, so it’s something we should learn about. Why did you even go down this route of sleep as something you were interested in? Why the interest in sleep? Danny: Yeah, sure. So I’m calling today from Thailand, I’ve been travelling. You might hear roosters behind me in the background from this hotel room. I really was interested in sleep because this was something that I struggled with for so long. I’ve been a personal improvement junkie for more than a decade, reading a lot of self-improvement books. I could stay at the bookstore for five hours and it would just pass by like five minutes. I’m really big on performance, especially mental performance. But one thing that I never really figured out was sleep. It was something that I struggled with. I was always an insomniac. Sleep deprivation tormented me, and I had so many wasted days because I didn’t sleep well at night, and it would snowball because it would be like a psychological effect where I’d get really upset that I wasn’t asleep, I’d get depressed and had a lack of motivation where I wasn’t… I had goals but it was subverting my goals, so I wasn’t giving my best effort to them. I published my first book last year, it was called Buy Your Own Island, and I wrote four books after that, and the last one I wrote was Hack Sleep, and the reason why I wrote that book was, I knew this author, and I asked him, “What kind of books do you write?” And he said, “I write books that I really am interested in and I enjoy,

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