Think Tank Sleep

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Welcome to another episode. Today we are going to continue with the think tank. And I put a message out on Facebook and what I wanted to do was I just wanted to have random people come aboard. We have a group called the Hartman Academy Group. And I said, who's interested in being on our think tank today? Uncensored, not edited, just straight up talk. And the topic today is self care. And I have Scott Saltzman. Scott, how are you?

Hi. Good. Glad to be here.

Great. So you're in beautiful California, one of my most favorite places on the planet.

It's pretty spectacular out today. Good weather.

Okay, so what made you inspire to answer the Facebook group message?

Well, I just, you know, I see it as like something about self care. Just, it's about being really just honest with yourself and what you need and treating yourself as, as number one and, and just sort of looking at feeling yourself. What do you need in the moment and what needs, what do you need to make yourself thrive essentially, so that you can just have that positive mindset, a growth mindset, not being, you know, stuck. And I saw that and it was like, well, let's, let's talk about it. This is what I love to do and I've, you know, been admired of your podcast for a while now. And.

Yeah, so do you, what do you do? Do you do. What kind of workouts do you do?

Well, I mean, I do a variety of things. I mean, I'm an avid skier. I've been coaching the free ski team here at Mammoth for a while. And I love skateboarding and, you know, all the action sports. Even, even at my age, I'm gonna be honest, I'm 51 years old and I'm, I put it through a 360 out there yesterday and just keep going. I'm an avid yoga practitioner as well. I've been doing yoga pretty hardcore for. Since about 1995, and somewhere around 2004, 2005, I started formally teaching it and practicing it as well. And of course I love working out. I love lifting and I'm a big resistance fan as well, using stretchy bands and that stuff. And yeah, any kind of cardio. I mean, I just, I love running. We have the mountains here, so it's great to go for hikes and trail runs. And I'm a big believer of scaring yourself at least one time a day, you know, doing something physical, hopefully.

Well, we get on the topic of self care, and I tell people no matter what you do, it could be in life, it could be business, it could be in sports, that if you're not taking care of yourself, there's a good chance of you feeling pretty crappy. And the chances are that you need something to do to make sure that you do feel good. And I remember once I was talking to a real estate company and I told them that it's important for the first thing they do in the morning is make their bed. And they looked at me like I was crazy. And I said to them, I said, listen, it's important because it's the first thing to do. I learned this from one of these Navy SEALs that, that I was listening to once. It just gets you right off on the, on a positive thing and you're doing something positive getting out of bed and you're making your bed to show that you've accomplished something first thing in the morning. So it's important that, that you do something to take care of it. That's all around the self care. There's so many topics, Scott, around self care. You know, there's training and different things, but I truly believe even in sales, if you're in sales and you look tired and exhausted and you're not taking care of yourself, why would somebody want to buy from you? So that's why I love the topic self care. We, we call it think tank. So you're feel free to ask any questions. You're. You're free to, you know, if you want to, you know, show that you feel something different. I'm all ears right now that we do about. We do these think tanks for about 10 minutes or so, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.

How do you feel about sleep?

Well, I once saw a video, it was this motivational video, and people may have seen it on the Internet that somebody says, I don't sleep. And it might have been another rapper that said, I don't sleep. I think sleep is the most important thing that you could do because I know personally, if I'm not getting between seven and eight, nine hours, I'm going to be exhausted. I mean, some people get like, they get terrible sleep. I think sleep is everything. Sleep is about recovery, being alert, feeling good. I think it's so important. I think that's a big part of self care. And we had our dietitian on who talks about the holistic side of things. And she was talking about even some of her clients looking at the phone at night, that blue light keeping you up. So you have to do these different things. So we talk about self care, but you have to have actions behind it. Now what is your feeling about sleep?

I mean, I think it's also very important and like sometimes, you know, if I'm like very busy, like the last, last few days for example, I mean I've just been, you know, getting up super early, five o', clock, 5:30, you know, getting, doing a little bit of my self care personal routine in the morning. Some yoga, some meditation, maybe some work with the stretchy bands and going to the hill to coach and then going to the skate park to continue coaching. And then the next thing I know it's evening and I'm exhausted, but I got to get up, do it the next day. So today, this morning was a day where I didn't have something scheduled. I didn't have to be there right away. So I planned on actually sleeping in. And I got up like I normally will do, just, just get up. I was like, 5:30, I'm up and I'm like, no, don't get up right now. Go back to sleep for a couple hours. And you know, and I feel so much better just knowing I do that because I think it does catch up for me personally anyways. And I would just have anyone that I'm talking to, I would say, hey, you know, are you tired? Do you need to take a nap? You need to schedule time off for yourself to sleep in one day and have a relaxing morning so that you can perform for the rest of the week. And obviously for some people that may be really hard. If you're working six, seven days of work, you know, 10 hours a day, I mean, when do you get it? And then family time and you know, like how do you schedule time for sleep if it's not there? You just have to do it like anything else.

I agree and there's, but there's so many theories on sleep and we're not going to get into it because I'm not a sleep expert, but I, I'm not either.

But I, I could tell you that we're all a little different. You know, someone might only need four, may need eight hours. And I think it's, that's, that's where like sitting in a, in a meditation or laying on your back or just Just taking time out to be comfortable and think. Not thinking, but thinking at the same time. What do I need for me, you know, what's going to help me get through the night, what's going to help me get through the week? Like when you, when you slow things down and you're completely relaxed, it's a good time to maybe ask a question and then just pause and listen and you'll hear the answers. Most of the time I think, yeah.

I like what you're saying. And you know what I do, I can't admit to it, but I, I take, try to take like a 15 or 20 minute nap sometimes if I'm, if I'm at home or I have an office here in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I'll just close my eyes and I'll try to, just try to do a little bit of recovery nap. Sometimes I feel so much better and that works. What do you think?

What are your thoughts? I'm a big believer in that. When I was younger and I was working in Hollywood in my career, I was working a lot of hours in the office. And I realized at that point too that I had to get out at some point, go for a walk or do some yoga in the morning before I got there. But my biggest thing that I found out was I was crashing hard in the afternoon, especially after some of the business lunches and things. I found that at about 2 o', clock, maybe 3 o' clock depending on when we had lunch, I would go down to my car, I put the car seat back, I close my, set an alarm, put the, put the seat back in just 10 minutes, you know, quiet, hopefully no cars were driving around and bugged me too much. But then I would get up, I'd go back to my office and every time I did that, if it was, you know, I figured I found 10 minutes, you know, I tried five, I tried 10, I tried 20, I found that 10 minutes just silent, my eyes closed and I go back to the office and I was like way more creative, more energetic, just, you know, just on it. Yeah.

Well, Scott, I am so happy you reached out because this is the whole purpose again. It's, it's unedited, it's just real talk. And this think tank, the whole purpose and objective is for people just to share their thoughts and feelings. It's. There doesn't, there's not scientific studies behind everything that we're doing. But I'm going to leave this little bit here. As long as you're taking action every day on your self care and doing little things. I think that's you've already made the step in the right direction. Even if you've listened to this, some people have that, they call that the ADD or adult add. And okay, I'm going to shut it off. But the whole purpose here, what I really wanted to start this think tank was to help many people out there and bringing on just said random people. Thank you so much for being here. If anybody wants to go to Hartman Academy and what you could do, you could leave your information there. We also have a magazine that talks about health and fitness and lifestyle. We have our registered dietitian who talks about holistic nutrition. Love to have you Hartman Academy. Sign up on the website for the free ezine. And if you want to come on and we're going to continuously do these, we'd love to have you.

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