Most of us in this day and age of fast paced lives and deadlines simply don’t get enough sleep. This can be devastating over long term over our ability to function both physically and mentally.

Even though most of us know this, we barely can find any way of making changes that will allow us to get more sleep.

Lack of sleep makes us mentally and physically slow and doesn’t allow the body to repair itself properly from the hard work we put in at the gym. Lacking both the ability to concentration with keenmental focus and lack of "electrical juice" to contract your muscles to their max, will not make you strong or fast and you'll always feel like the lion who can't keep up with the herd.

Without proper muscle recovery, we have slower gains because we’re not recovering and less power and speed when we do exercises because we lack the mental focus and the ability to ignite muscle firings that activate the muscles with enough contraction power that brings you super strength and speed.

As an entertainer myself, we’re know for keeping vampire hours with our performing schedules and after-show highs we get from the applause of awesome audiences.

But entertainer or not, we all suffer from lack of sleep. But what to do to recharge yourself?

In my competition days, I was rehearsing 8-13  hours a day, teaching 33 students and still working out with martial arts and weights regularly. This is including all the other dally things one does.

Since I had heard so much about short naps taken by the likes of Einstein and Edison, I’d heard that Edison would sit in a chair lightly holding a set of keys in his fingertips. He’d close his eyes trying to sleep until awakened by the keys falling to the floor. In that length of time, he felt recharged and ready to attack his experiments with renewed vigor.

I figured if it worked for him, I’d at least try with some experiments of my own with some short naps. I’m glad I did too because it paid off with fantastic results.

Research says that anything over 30 minutes puts you into too deep of a REM cycle and you’ll feel groggy. But, like a lot of you, I didn’t have even that much time especially because I was preparing for a major competition that would put me into Carnegie Hall if I won.

So, because they said anything under 30 minutes was good and because I didn’t feel I could spare the time to be unconscious, I started taking my countdown watch and setting it at 19 minutes.

I decided to give it a twenty-one day test which research also says is the measure at which a new action can become a habit.

I’d lay there at first with eyes wide open for a couple days thinking of all the things I should be doing instead.

Because I’d decided not to give up, I really started putting my mind to it and eventually started falling asleep. Even though that seems like too short of a time, I was amazed at how filled with energy I was and how clear my mental focus became with even that little amount.

As the days went by I started falling into a deep sleep much quicker and because of that, I also started shortening the nap times.

By the time the competition had rolled around, I was able to go into a deep sleep for 7 minutes and wake up feeling like I owned the world with completely refreshed vigor and spice. And on top of this, I could do it almost anywhere even in the most noisy and uncomfortable places.

Believe me, if you can get it down to 7 minutes, no one will hardly have time to even miss you to wonder what you’re doing.

In fact, my girlfriend who was supposed to drive me to the competition arrived late as usual. We had to drive into New York City in terrible rush hour traffic.

Racing frantically across the Washington Bridge, we finally came to a screeching halt in front of the theater where the competition was taking place.

We arrived with only 10 minutes to spare. For many, that wouldn’t be enough time to even use the washroom. But, because I’d practiced going into a deep sleep quickly, I decided to take 7 minutes and take a powernap.

I’ll never forget the horror on my girlfriend’s face when I told her I was going to sleep in the car for seven minutes. As nervous as she was, you’d have thought she was competing that day. But, sure enough, I set my watch for 7 minutes and awoke completely calm and with clear mental focus.

This may sound like nuts to a lot of you, but if you put your mind to taking short energizing naps, you’ll increase your power, speed, mental focus, and even frame of mind in a very short amount of time.

A nap doesn’t have to be a long drawn out affair. Just like with a quick workout, you can gain great benefits by training yourself to be more efficient.
Think about the fastest and most powerful animals on earth. And then also think about how many naps they take during a day. Either way, you’re in good company with them or even Einstein and Edison.

The end of the story is that I won the gold medal in that competition and went on to play in Carnegie Hall as a result. To this day, I can take a short nap almost anywhere and in 7 minutes or less, wake up and feel like taking on the world.

Efficiency of movement and mental focus is what CoreForce Energy http://www.coreforceenergy.com is all about. Many of the ideas came directly as a result of these short Edison naps as I call them.

Try them and don’t feel guilty. Training yourself to sleep might be just as important to your development in strength and speed as it is to your mental focus and enthusiasm.

It’s in the perfecting of everyday things that you become a master.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader

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