Secret #1
Take a nap in the afternoon.

“Taking a nap could turn out to be an important weapon in the fight against coronary mortality.”  (Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Harvard School of Public Health).


Great!  I found out that sleeping in the afternoon between noon and before dusk is extremely beneficial but no later than.  As time for dusk approaches you should wake up.  The period of sleep can vary from person to person.  The minimum time must be 30 minutes (half an hour) of sleep.  It doesn't have to be deep sleep, just a nap is enough to give you all benefits.

Napping Benefits

1.  You will feel relaxed and re-energized.  When you wake up you may feel lazy but after a few minutes you will start feeling more alert and more rejuvenated than ever before.

2.  It boosts heart health.  Risk of heart attack is greatly reduced and it strengthens the heart muscles. Working men are 64 percent less likely! It’s true, according to a 2007 study published in the  Archives of Internal Medicine.  Patients having palpitations or similar heart problems will benefit most.  Taking a nap in the afternoon gives the heart muscles time to relax and re-energize.

3.  Maintains blood pressure.   Taking a nap in the afternoon greatly benefits people having high or low blood pressure.  

4.   A nap heightens sensory perception.  Napping also improves your creativity by relaxing your mind and allowing new associations to form in it.  According to Dr. Sara C, Mednick  the author of "Take a Nap, Change Your Life" napping can restore the sensitivity of sight, hearing, and taste.

5.   A nap makes you more productive. Numerous medical studies have shown workers becoming increasingly unproductive as the day wears on. But a Harvard University study demonstrated a 30-minute nap boosted the performance of workers, returning their productivity to beginning-of-the-day levels.

Napping Celebrities

Then I discovered many other successful people who were nappers:

• Leonardo da Vinci took multiple naps a day and slept less at night.
• The French Emperor Napoleon was not shy about taking naps. He indulged daily.
• Though Thomas Edison was embarrassed about his napping habit, he also practiced his ritual daily.
• Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, used to boost her energy by napping before speaking engagements.
• Gene Autry, “the Singing Cowboy,” routinely took naps in his dressing room between performances.
• President John F. Kennedy ate his lunch in bed and then settled in for a nap—every day!
• Oil industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller napped every afternoon in his office.
• Winston Churchill’s afternoon nap was a non-negotiable. He believed it helped him get twice as much done each day.
• President Lyndon B. Johnson took a nap every afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in order to break his day up into “two shifts.”
• Though criticized for it, President Ronald Reagan famously took naps as well.