What To Do When Entrepreneurial Insomnia Keeps You Up

Do you ever get so excited about the opportunities and ideas that exist in the business world that you can't get a good night's sleep? If you're an entrepreneur, chances are you've had these types of sleepless nights.

Many a night I will try my best to fall asleep at a decent hour, but eventually, I'll give up, and get back on the computer. It would seem like the logical thing to do (if you can't sleep, might as well work, right?), but it can really affect your health.

Throw into the mix that I'm a biological night owl, and sometimes it's only when the light of dawn breaks through the window do I realize I better get some sleep.

Want to talk about consequences? The next day becomes a dazed, dream state, where many times a nap is required to be even partially functional. So how does an entrepreneur combat this problem?

A few days ago I was talking to one of my friends, a wealthy entrepreneur and film producer, who seems to constantly pop out great ideas, and is still one of the most energetic people I know. And he told me that he had the same problem I have, up until a few years ago.

He told me whenever he gets the uncontrollable entrepreneurial fever, and he knows he needs a good night's sleep (which is every night) he simply places a notebook and a pen next to his bed. Then he tries to go to sleep.

Of course a million different thoughts will start coursing through his brain. So at this point, he simply turns over, reaches for his notebook, and writes down the ideas that are percolating at that moment. Then he lies back down. Sounds simple, right? And how is this helpful, you may be asking?

According to him, the reason why we get so excited is twofold. First, bedtime is probably the first chance in the day that a million things aren't going on all around you.

So for the first time all day, your subconscious mind can relax... and start forcing a tidal wave of ideas into your head! That's why you get so excited, and that's why it's hard to sleep sometimes.

Second, these ideas are incomplete thoughts, known as "open loops" in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Since the ideas are not able to be acted upon immediately, you are stuck lying in bed just THINKING about all the great ideas you COULD be acting on. No wonder it's so hard to sleep!

When you write these ideas down in your notepad, you are closing that open loop by assuring your subconscious mind, "Don't worry buddy, I got it on paper. You can relax and go to sleep!"

Practice this until your mind comes to peace, knowing that all those great ideas won't be forgotten sometime in the night. Plus, when you can get a good night's rest, you will be able to IMPLEMENT all those ideas from your notebook with the passion and energy they deserve!

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