Clarity and poison

# Chapter 69

Sleep and clarity. I spoke to various groups of business people and church people yesterday with the hope that they would engage with us, as we seek to change the world. They asked lots of sharp penetrating questions. Questions that required me to be as sharp as I can be. And I am not sure that is even enough. Without proper sleep, my clarity tank is always in doubt. And even if I get enough sleep, or the right quality of sleep, my clarity quality suffers if I have been drinking my favorite beverages. And of course I can’t even get those kinds of sleep qualities if I have been imbibing either.

Let’s be honest here, just because I am not drinking at the moment, does not guarantee that I will get the amount and type of sleep that I need to be the best version of me, nor does it guarantee that I will have the requisite clarity to answer people’s inquiries in a manner that communicates the fullest possible answer within me. But drinking beer or Irish whiskey does pretty much guarantee that my sleep and my clarity will take a negative hit and be less than ideal for all that I am facing professionally and personally these days. The very thing I want to consume so that I can relax and celebrate my success, is what interferes most with my relaxing and celebrating and actual success. Face it, drinking a beer or six never helped anyone succeed at anything except impairment of functioning at your best possible capacity. To violently disagree with the commercial here, you can’t have it all, or both ways. I can either choose the best possible path to great sleep and the best clarity of thought, or I can choose to poison them both, but I can’t do both.