Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson: Issue 26 | May 2016

I have mad respect for Shawn so I was excited to dive into his book. Now that it’s available and one of the top sleep books on Amazon, I was happy to share it with the book club!

I first discovered Sleep Smarter (Amazon link) when Shawn, host of The Model Health Show (one of the only podcasts I listen to), gave me super early access to it prior to its publication. Shawn, if you remember, turned in a fantastic guest spot on SPI 125: Small Secrets to Stay Mentally Focused and at the Top of Our Entrepreneurial Game. [Full Disclosure: As an affiliate, I receive compensation if you purchase through this link.]

Sleep Smarter is full of effective strategies for better, healthier, and more efficient sleep, and I’ve implemented quite a few of them to amazing success. Shawn’s strategies have completely changed how I sleep. Even better, they’ve also affected how I wake up and live each day. A lot of people know I don’t sleep a full eight hours a night. I never do, and haven’t since high school. But now, thanks to this book, I don’t need to. I am now aware of what kind of sleep I get, and I can decipher between quality sleep and quantity sleep.

Have you ever woken up after eight hours of sleep and still felt groggy? That’s what I’m talking about. Sleep Smarter helps you navigate that conundrum, get the sleep your body needs, and wake up refreshed. My energy levels throughout the day are so much better!

Each chapter of the book is broken up into specific sleep strategies, but you don’t have to use them all. Even if you implement one of them, you’ll benefit greatly. I picked a few strategies that were easy to implement and fun to experiment with. They worked wonders!

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