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The General Cause

Overall the general cause of all of these problems can be summarized as treating programming as an obsession. You may want to be very good at it, like I did, so you exclude everything else in your life in order to master it. You don't go to the bathroom, you have macho 10 hour coding sessions, you don't eat right, and all manner of mythological beliefs about "real programmers".
Truth is real programmers are kind of idiots. They don't eat right. They don't have sex on a regular basis. They can't run without gasping for breath. They have huge problems with their internal organs not caused by disease. Really, it's just not worth it if you have to kill yourself to be good at something.
So, as you read through each of these problems and how I've cured them, remember that it's all about just having a balanced life and not being obsessed with coding or your business. Trust me when I say you will actually become better if you take it easy on yourself and stay healthy.




First up, if you can, get the best damn bed you can afford. 2000+ dollars is nothing for a great bed. I spent at least 2200 on a sweet Tempur-Pedic. It's totally worth it.
Now with your awesome bed here's how you start practicing getting to sleep easily. It's kind of a self-hypnosis trick:

1. Make sure that you've killed all sounds and lights that might be in your room.
2. Lay on your back and put your hands on your body somewhere comfortable, or at your sides.
3. Start breathing in deeply and slowly and breathing out, as you do this imagine you can see the air flow in and out of your body.
4. Once you start to see your breath, imagine that you're looking through a window and outside the window is a large huge open space with stars in it.
5. As you breath feel yourself float through the window and slowly out into the massive expanse of stars, all floating softly around you.
6. Keep this going and then just let this floating spread into your bed and out around you until there is nothing.

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