“Sleep is the most effective tool in your arsenal to achieve optimal health, performance, and recovery,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

In the past two weeks, we’ve explored Sahil’s strategies for optimizing Physical Wealth, focusing on Movement, Nutrition, and Recovery.

When it comes to the third pillar, recovery, the most important area to … continue reading

1: We’ve just had an intense “flow state” experience. 

We’ve been completely absorbed in the activity, losing our sense of time. Our actions and awareness have melded together, and we’ve felt a powerful sense of being in control. 

We’ve successfully traveled through the first three stages of the flow cycle: Struggle, release, and then flow.

How do we feel?

Likely, we’re wiped out. “Even the extra energy … continue reading

1: Our work can become all-consuming. 

“Where one’s identity in prior generations might come from being the son of so-and-so or living in a particular part of town or being a member of a church or club,” Timothy Keller writes in Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, “today young people are seeking to define themselves by the status of their work.”

Which can become dangerous.… continue reading