2am
I had an absolutely ecstatic day yesterday, it was like being on drugs but totally sober. I am always amazed how some very simple lifestyle changes (exercise, diet and good sleep) can have such a powerful impact. I am sleeping as much as I want, currently about 6 1/2 hours, much less than my previous average. I had a perfect 3-hour core sleep last night and feel great right now. The possibility exists that I may have discovered a painless way to adapt to an Everyman schedule, which would be amazing. All this polyphasic sleep stuff is still very experimental, there have been no controlled studies, this is groundbreaking stuff.
For the last several days I have been focusing mostly on personal work (clearing my LONG email queue) and networking (for the upcoming Basic Sensuality course we are hosting), rather than income generation. This feels right to me. I cannot imagine that in my current state I won’t be able to manifest the perfect job very quickly – possibly even a work-at-home situation as described in yesterday’s post. This practice (to focus on what gives me joy rather than what I think I should be doing) is classic Law of Attraction. The Merck job fell through, but I am not worried about it right now. I have given myself two weeks to go full-tilt on this experiment, 10 days remaining and the results are already spectacular.
I am already feeling my extremely conflicted relationship to Time healing. I am doing the things that are important to me.
This morning I had tea, which is not necessarily a show-stopper (my principle addiction is coffee) but risky. Rebekah calls it my "gateway drug" and this is correct.
3pm
About to go down for nap. It’s been an excellent morning, I got a great deal done. I have however had 3 cups of tea in the last 24 hours and this is taking a big risk. It’s stopping now. I even briefly contemplated having coffee, can you believe it.
One of the spectacular events of today was that I got myself a coach. I met him years ago in Landmark, I have a tremendous respect for him, and we had a fabulous initial call. He’s 78 years old but he looked in his early 50′s last time I saw him (8 years ago). I had written previously how personal development can be a lonely task, and I also think that we all need the honest feedback and attention of someone who "gets us". This is good. Really good.
I am still extremely wired – having trouble going down for naps at regular times etc. It’s caused partly by the intense excitement of my current transformational journey, and to a lesser degree by the tea. It is expected to dissipate as I get more used to functioning at this high level, but this may take a while.
A significant awareness coming through now. I am going to need to budget at least 4 hours a day on personal development / networking, plus the 8 hours of income generation. I have been doing personal development for 3 days full-tilt now and I still have 1400 emails in my inbox. 12 hours of intellectual attention daily is possible on a modified Everyman that begins the work at 2am and ends it at 6pm, given a 1 1/2 hour workout break and a 1 1/2 hour second nap (bringing total sleep to 5 1/2 hours). This is challenging though and I need to get with the program asap. I think I need utter discipline in the schedule for at least for next month. I need to go down, whether I am tired or not, at set times, 7:30am, 12:30pm, 6pm, and make sure I get at least the 3 hours core. I am really not into sleep deprivation, I think reduction in sleep needs to happen in an organic way according to my body’s needs, but I can support this with diet and attitude and managing my anxiety level.
All this is good and I feel I am about to start the second stage of this experiment, where high-level well-being is the norm. After just 4 days it’s not bad.
From Monday (day 8) I intend to start to focus seriously on income generation. This is going to be challenging.
