How do you go about having a life when you are working full time? Need to increase available energy, otherwise I don't know how it could be possible.
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I've had a lot of trouble with this in the past. Assuming you're doing the obvious (e.g. not working 80h/wk), one thing that's helped me is obsessing about sleep quality. Earplugs, great eye mask, no alarms, ensuring 8.5h+ oppty, better mattress, CPAP, etc—really improved energy.
Relatedly, I've also found significant improvements from cutting out alcohol after 8PM and caffeine after 3PM.
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One more, while I'm thinking about it: on the occasions in which I've obsessed over sleep quality and *still* have struggled with this, it was often because I was unhappy with what I was doing during those work hours, which left me drained afterwards. Solving that helped.
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Andy can you share your journey with Cpap? I’ve always wanted to do it when I read about it but I’m hesitant. And do ya still use the silk mask? I remember it getting recommended by you
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It was in the standard list of things to try for daytime drowsiness, so doc ordered a home sleep study (they sent me a box of equipment; I wore it for a night and sent it back). Study found mild OSA. So I ordered a CPAP and mask; doc recommended ResMed AirSense 10; worked great.
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I am afraid that makes too much sense. Sleep is my bottleneck. If I don't want to feel like a potato after 6 pm, I need fundamentally change something.
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