How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
Written by Gloria Metrick on . Published as written. It may not reflect how these systems work today.
The key to a good night's sleep is to avoid thinking about your project issues when you get into bed.
Any problems with the project, itself, can lead to agitation and an inability to get to sleep. This is not the time to ponder whether you're "doing enough" for a particular customer. This is not the time to mentally beat yourself up for anything you did not finish for a particular project for the day. This is a particularly bad time to wonder why your code keep crashing on you when you try to update a record. It is a terrible time to think about why your configuration isn't updating the screen with the correct information.
Yet, it is sometimes hard not to let the problems of the day drop onto us once we go to bed. This is exactly the mistake I made, last night. Eventually, I let the day's issues keep me up for most of the night and, for what little sleep I did get, I ended up having scope creep nightmares.
The reason I bring this up isn't that I'm looking for any pity. I most certainly did this to myself. However, here in the US when the Labor Day weekend is behind us, we consider this the start of the Fall season. As such, many of us will have a lot more work to do, more things to worry about, and we will need our sleep more than ever.
To those who never have this problem because they are so relaxed and well-adjusted that they never, ever let this happen to them, even on occasion, I say we should all take a leaf from your book and learn from you. For the rest of us, just remember that whatever is bothering you won't be an issue, forever. Soon, you'll have a totally new set of problems to keep you awake. :-)
Gloria Metrick
GeoMetrick Enterprises
http://www.GeoMetrick.com/
