It’s easy to strive for optimal performance when skills are polished and energy is high. However, even with perfect exercise and nutrition, and plenty of sleep, leaders can surprisingly feel perpetually tired.
Have you ever tried to fix an ongoing lack of energy by getting more sleep — only to do so and still feel exhausted?
If that’s you, here’s the secret: Sleep and rest are not the same thing, although many of us incorrectly confuse the two.
We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.
Rest should equal restoration in key areas of your life. Physician Saundra Dalton-Smith MD describes these seven key areas in detail.
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