The Quick Benefits to the Power Nap

One of the advantages of working out of your home is the leeway to set your own schedule. Since I kick off my day at 4 a.m., sometimes I lose a little alertness, say, around 1 p.m. Catching a few zzz's (10 minutes works best for me) in the afternoon is the picker-upper.

My grabbing a cat snooze trumps fixing a pot of afternoon coffee. My rule is no caffeine after 1 p.m, or I get the heebie-jeebies at night. Believe it or not, I can gin up with a new angle to solve a problem or how to set a new scene to my work-in-progress while I drowse off.

Of course, if I'm on a hard deadline, then I don't have a choice but to forgo the power nap. Some (many) days are just like that. But ideally.

Hey, I'm not alone in my thinking. My stepfather was a big believer in power naps. Thomas Edison, Bill Clinton, LBJ, JKF, Lance Armstrong, Winston Churchill also fitted in their daytime 40 winks.

Now, if you'll [yawn] excuse me [yawn], I'll go [yawn]...

By Ed Lynskey
@edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Satisfying."
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