SUCCESS IS A NIGHT WORK THAT HAS DAY RESULTS
By design everyone in the
world is supposed to be success-bound, but by choice some have backed out of
this life-long trip. One of the basic reasons some abandon the journey is that
they think that success is an event, and not a process.
From the ages past, success
has always been a progressive realization
of our God-directed predetermined goals. It is particularly very fulfilling
if the success is all-round, that is, we make that steady progress in all the
eight vital areas of our lives, namely, (i) spiritual (ii) educational/training
(iii) career/work (iv) self-development (v) financial/business/investment (vi) family/relationships (vii) health, and (viii) physical/material.
I can make bold to say that
we’re people of equal destiny, the differences in our results are a product of
our individual levels of understanding and insight. If we mistakenly believe
that life is unfair to us, or that God is unkind to us, and therefore limit
ourselves, we cheat ourselves out of the best deal. Truth is, “The Lord is good to all…” (Psalm
145:9).
Today, we delve into one of
the very fundamental secrets the most successful people use to record results
that are astonishing. It is the way they use their nighttime.
SLEEP ROUTINE
OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
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TIME OF GOING TO BED
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TIME OF WAKING UP
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PERCENTAGE
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TIME
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PERCENTAGE
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TIME
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5
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9.30 p.m.
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11
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4.00 a.m.
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18
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10.00 p.m.
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6
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4.30 a.m.
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9
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10.30 p.m.
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28
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5.00 a.m.
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32
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11.00 p.m.
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11
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5.30 a.m.
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5
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11.30 p.m.
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11
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6.30 a.m.
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5
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12.00 a.m.
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22
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7.00 a.m.
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18
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1.00 a.m.
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6
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8.00 a.m.
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5
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3.00 a.m.
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5
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9.00 a.m.
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In the study, 14 percent of
the successful people sleep an average of 4-5 hours a day; 32 percent, 5-6
hours a day; and 27 percent, 6-7 hours a day. That means that 73 percent of
them sleep between 4 and 7 hours a day. Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, for
instance, are said to sleep about 7 hours daily, while Richard Branson sleeps
an average of 5-6 hours daily.
As clearly seen, most of the
very successful people go to bed late and wake up very early. What do they use
the nighttime for? What are their
nighttime habits?
(1) They use it
to organize the following day: Any great day starts the night before. Successful people know
how important it is to plan the next day. So they utilize the nighttime to have
the following day well planned out. They clarify their main goals and set out
how to go about them. They do this before they go to bed.
Filiz Mehmedova suggests that before going to bed every evening, you should grab a planner or a
notebook and write down your three most important goals for the next day. Why you’ve got to write them down in your journal or a
to-do list is so that you remember them and stay focused.
(2) Successful
people use their nighttime to look back and appraise how the day went: Byerica Florentine writes that the
nighttime is the perfect time to reflect on the happenings of the day as to
what went well, what went wrong, and how to correct the things that didn’t go
well. As a matter of fact, you should use
the night to improve upon the next morning.
(3) They invest quality time with the family: Family
is so critical and crucial that if you fail in that front, you’ve failed in
all. No amount of success at your work, business or profession can make up for
failure at home. Successful people know this and spend their evenings with their
families and loved ones.
Ideally,
success is a night work that has day
results. The night is the best time to contact essential knowledge, that’s
why wise and successful people use it to their advantage. Psalm 19:2 is really
an eye-opener, “Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals
knowledge.”
The
implication is that night is the season
for encountering and accessing knowledge (answers), but the day time is the
season for declaring, manifesting, or using the knowledge you contacted in the
night. So learn to make good use of the nighttime, while also ensuring that you
rest well every night. After all, there’s research evidence that both too
little sleep and too much sleep are linked to a number of health problems over
time, and even to early mortality.
1 comments
Entrepreneur should evaluates each and every day of his life. The tasks day completed, the activities they performed is evaluated and rated and hence compared with the expectations & this is a important evening habit of entrepreneurs.
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