Give Yourself A Real Sleep Bonus

Give Yourself A Real Sleep Bonus
You might be napping on an exotic beach. Maybe you’re taking it easy at home, re-acquainting yourself with that designer couch you hardly use. You could be on your family skiing holiday, soaking up the sun and snow. And yes, you could also be that unlucky executive, stuck in a ghost-office, “holding the fort” as they say.
Fact is, you’re taking the slow time to read this. Likely because you saw the words “bonus” and “sleep” in the title? Read on. It’s totally worth your time. And the bonus.
Sleep is your key performance factor
Sleep is not something we focus on, if we consider it at all. We’re all busy doing stuff, going places, achieving the impossible. Until our minds and bodies suddenly say – time out!
‘Economise’ on your sleep over too long a period and you’ll soon feel the consequences. Caffeine and energy boosters are a short-term fix. Fatigue builds up. Simply by putting in the extra hours does not guarantee that you’ll be more productive. You might get more done, but the more sleep debt you acquire, the more your mental acuity and physical agility begin to wane.
Lack of quality sleep can eventually take its toll on your immune system. It’s during sleep that your body and mind restore and regenerate, ready to take on every next day. When fatigue turns to exhaustion and you’re not sleeping, well, don’t be surprised if you land up catching a bug. And then, you find yourself man down. Pushing yourself to the brink eventually becomes counterproductive, even if you’re the martyr working from your deathbed. You’re simply not going to be on your game. No rest, no zest.
Sleep as a career strategy
Seriously? Yes, seriously. Proper, deep, quality sleep is a lifelong approach to your wellbeing. For the seriously career-oriented, there are bound to be challenges. Add family commitments into the mix and you have just about everyone’s life experience right there. There’s a lot that we might not sign up for, but reality bites nonetheless.
Ensuring you get the right type of sleep each night is key to your stamina. Ideally, you’ll sleep the full number of hours your body needs. That’s the ideal world. Inevitably, there will be work pressures that mean you might have to forego an hour or two each night over a week or so. That’s when you need to pay even closer attention to the kind of the sleep you’re getting.
Beware the late-night munchies. Hold on the caffeine and alcohol. Calm things down ahead of bedtime, whatever time that happens to be. In other words, actively manage yourself to sleep. It’s likely more beneficial to enjoy limited quality sleep than longer hours of shallow, interrupted napping.
Here’s the thinking. Jealously guard the quality of your sleep. Just as you manage the demands and effectiveness of your working week, sleep is your super power that you ignore at your peril.
Ambitious much? Sleep on it. You’ll notice the difference, especially when that rewarding bonus comes along.
Get that top-of-the-range mattress
It’s the silent, competitive advantage. You can’t wear it, so it doesn’t help with the flash or the bling. You can’t take it for a spin, so it won’t do much for your ego, if that’s what drives you. But you better believe it – a top quality, purpose-designed mattress will make you feel, and probably look, like a million bucks.
If you’ve done well this past year and you’ve earned that handy little cash injection, by all means splash out. But also consider a smart investment. The very best mattress your money can buy is the one that will absolutely transport your sleep to new dimensions.
Your sleep comes first at Dial•a•Bed
Let’s not mess around. You probably have neither the time nor the patience to go bed shop hopping. Dial•a•Bed is your one-stop destination to find your perfect, forever sleep. With a sleep expert on hand, you’ll quickly find your way to the perfectly engineered mattress that best suits your sleep preferences. And you may also just be presently surprised at the top end price you weren’t expecting.
Especially as it just so happens that this December is Dial•a•Bed’s Summer Sleep Saver month. How’s that for a promotion? With an even better bonus. Take a quick preview across the serious sleeper range at www.dialabed.co.za.
#SleepForLife. And make it all totally worth it.