Motivational Speaker Urges Transforming Insomnia into Inspiration

What can you do when it?s two or three in the morning and you know for a fact that you?re definitely not going to drift off to sleep if you stay in bed? "I?ve found this is a golden time, if used constructively. In fact, I do some of my best thinking and most creative work in the wee hours," reports Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author, popular keynote speaker and seminar expert, and consultant to the Fortune 500.

There are various kinds of insomnia and sleeping disorders. Some folks simply can?t get to sleep at the appointed time. They toss and turn, and some find their minds becoming closed-loop machines, working and reworking the same fantasies and fears. Others, like me, get off to sleep quite easily, but we awaken after a few hours, feeling energized; all undressed with nowhere to go. What can you do when it?s two or three in the morning and you know for a fact that you?re definitely not going to drift off to sleep if you stay in bed?

I?ve found this is a golden time, if used constructively. In fact, I do some of my best thinking and most creative work in the wee hours.

But this takes some practice and I have found reprogramming by beliefs to be helpful.

For example, if you believe that awakening in the middle of the night is ABNORMAL, and you label it as such, what will happen?

You?ll probably wake up and immediately ask yourself: Why am I so ABNORMAL?

Undoubtedly, this will lead to some disturbing thoughts, and you?ll compound the misery of being awake at that hour.

On the other hand, if you WELCOME being awake, and you label it an OPPORTUNITY, then you?re definitely more likely to get something positive from it.

Sometimes, I?ll ask this question: What is my unconscious telling me to work on?

Once, when I was doing an extensive consulting assignment in Texas, I awoke in the middle of the night, anxious about the seminar I was delivering the next day.

After tuning into my concerns, and accepting that I wasn?t going to fall back to sleep, I redesigned the programs, and the results paid off immediately.

Those five hours of work were, literally, career changing.

Of course, I do a considerable amount of writing when I?m prematurely awakened.

As a matter of fact, this piece is being composed at exactly 3:20 in the morning.

Hope it helps you as much as it?s helping me!

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com & The Goodman Organization is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, "The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable," published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC''s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at [phone] or at: [e-mail]

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