New BiggerPockets Article: The No. 1 Thing You Can Do To Improve Everything in Your Life

Spoilers: It's sleep.

Sleep more and sleep better.

That's the topic of my new article for BiggerPockets, which admittedly, doesn't have a lot to do with real estate investing. But regardless, better sleep will improve every part of your life, and if part of your life is investing in real estate, than that part will be improved too.

The article reviews the great book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Page one basically explains why this is so important,

“Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep.
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“I doubt you are surprised by this fact, but you may be surprised by the consequences. Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer. Insufficient sleep is a key lifestyle factor determining whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease. Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. Short sleeping increases the likelihood of your coronary arteries becoming blocked and brittle, setting you on a path toward cardiovascular disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Fitting Charlotte Brontë’s prophetic wisdom that ‘a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow,’ sleep disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety and suicidality.”

So make sleep a priority folks! (But while awake, check out my article. Thanks.)