I have always been a very grateful person. That is what happens to a kid whose parents never drove or had a car.
As the day this week of the anniversary of my Dad dying approaches
,I think of him and also think that he had this quality too and like me little
things good please him. At his funeral nearly every one the people there spoke
about this quality about him.
So in honor of him, I am adding a new label to my blog which
will be “little book of awesome” and in it I will here and there write down
some stuff that really and plainly pleases me.
Today’s entry begins with:
Sleep
I love sleeping. I think often in my racing mind as I try
to fall asleep or in my racing mind after I get up to pee in the night and can’t
fall back to sleep…how grateful I am to have sleep. It is such a simple yet
effective gift to have the opportunity to lie down at night and rest our
bodies. It really is quite a luxury when you think about it isn’t it?
Often I visualize that everyone around the world gets to
do this each and every day and what a little break that must be. Some with more
luxury and blankets than others, some after a hard day at the office and some
after a hard day working in the sun in the fields. But rich or poor we are all
entitled to some sleep and I think that is pretty cool. So nice for the brain
and body to be expected to rest.
I think sleep is awesome and I covet it and want more. I
have never taken sleep for granted and treat it more as a treat than my intrinsic
right. I don’t allow myself enough of it and I really should.
My biggest goal when my kids were little was to give them
and me the gift of sleep. No matter how many people I talk to or coach and try
to understand various perspectives, I will never eervr understand why so many
people around this globe allow kids to stay up late way past their bedtimes or
make then stay awake & engaged when all the poor kid want to do is fall
asleep. Adults need kids to sleep and kids need to sleep. Sounds like a win-
win to me? It is bad for marriage, bad
for the kid, bad for the family and an all-around health and life disaster waiting to corrupt when kids
don’t sleep properly.
It is one of those things in coaching that I must just
feel compelled to say.
Stop it.
Sleep is awesome and I love it. And that is why it is the
first entry of “my own little book of awesome”
