Show Notes:

 

When it comes to your health, the one thing you might sacrifice the most is sleep. If this is true for you, it’s time to get serious about making this a priority. Good, consistent sleep helps you to keep your immune system strong, lose weight, level out your mood, stay productive and perform your best in mind and body.

Kelly learned this the hard way when after years of compromising her own sleep, she found herself facing health issues and losing motivation to get after her goals. Today, Kelly no longer negotiates with her sleep so she can show up her best in her business and for the people in her life and she encourages everyone she works with to change their own relationship with sleep. 

For this episode, we’re taking a look at all the factors that affect the quantity and quality of your sleep, so you can better understand what’s keeping you from the rest you deserve. Kelly also supplies you with a wide array of tips and tricks you can use to improve your sleep game. 

The Finer Details of This Episode:

- Taking a look at how lack of sleep negatively affects us and explaining why we need to make time for sleep.

- The unfortunate way our culture turns sleep deprivation into a badge of honor.

- How Kelly’s own experiences with sleep deprivation led her to completely rethink her approach to cell phone usage and her bedtime.

- The surprising percentage of people who aren’t getting decent sleep.

- Why we should prioritize quality over quantity when it comes to the sleep we can get.

- How you can learn to get back to your circadian rhythms.

- What sleep studies can tell us about the hormones that affect sleep and how decent sleep plays a pivotal role in fat loss.

- How to give your body a jump start as soon as you wake up.

- When you shouldn’t feel guilty about giving yourself an extra hour of sleep.

- What Kelly has been doing to put her sleep schedule back on track.

- How magnesium deficiency plays a role in the quality of sleep we get.

- How the  interplay between temperature, light and even your cell phone can have a negative impact on your sleep cycle.

Quotes:

“We need to get smarter about our schedules and actually use the time we have.”

“We’ve been programmed to equate success with burning the candle at both ends, and the truth is this behavior elicits the opposite results.”

“Rather than making sleep something that I fit into my schedule, it has become a non-negotiable.”

“Overbooking and overextending ourselves is not how we get to the top.”

“Your sleep health is in your brain AND in your belly.”

“Staying cool is incredibly important to getting quality sleep.”

“Make space in your brain so there’s nothing there and you can go to sleep.”

Show Links:

Kelly’s homepage - http://www.kellytravis.net

Podcast homepage - http://www.kellytravis.net/podcast