How Changing Your Nights Could Return Flow to Your Days

The truth about the impact of sleep on every area of our lives.

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readMar 18, 2021

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We’re all looking for a magic pill, that one simple thing that would make everything in our lives easier. Whether it be the right diet, the right mindset, the money hack or, the key to the perfect relationship. But what if it were as simple as going to sleep?

How could that be? Surely the quality of our sleep doesn’t apply to all those areas of daily life? Scarily though, it does.

There is no money to be made in encouraging us all to get more sleep, so instead, we are inundated with tools to ‘do more’, ‘be more’ and, fit more into our already hectic lives. We can find podcasts, self helps books and, articles by the hundred, all advising us on ways to maximize the potential of any given moment. We streamline our time and block off every 30 minutes to achieve success and finally get to the end of that ‘to do’ list.

Yet to do those things effectively we need a clear head, and our thought processes not to be scrambled by another night of not enough sleep. Juggling faster and faster, inevitably leads to falling plates, so how can we stop and still catch them all?

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
ILLUMINATION

Writing on female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at Green Parent magazine & Parenting Top Writer. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.