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turbolapp · 01-26-2012, 11:47 PM

You know what helps me fall asleep? Focusing on the "spots". Not sure how to explain it but when you're in the dark and you're eyes are closed you can usually find little red fire fly like spots dancing around. (some sort of visual deprivation thing I guess) anyways following them as the float around sends me to sleep in record time: like 1 to 2 minutes. Where as just laying there waiting for sleep to come to me usually takes me an average of about 20 minutes. If I'm lucky.

Seriously, find the spots. It will be your last conscious thought for the night.

charlesmartel · 01-26-2012, 11:51 PM

I repeat in my head "drifting, dreaming, floating". It's a phrase some hypnotists use.

tomaszjot · 01-27-2012, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by turbolapp

You know what helps me fall asleep? Focusing on the "spots". Not sure how to explain it but when you're in the dark and you're eyes are closed you can usually find little red fire fly like spots dancing around.

Seriously, find the spots. It will be your last conscious thought for the night.

I know exactly what "spots" you're talking about! I discovered them in 2001. 6 years later I was finally released from psychiatric unit of my local hospital...

guerilla · 01-27-2012, 12:40 AM

I don't think being a full-time entrepreneur favors "making it". You either need to be crushing it, or getting out.

That's where the entrepreneurial terror comes in. It's a push, sink or swim. A natural correcting mechanism, like bankruptcy is for poorly run firms.

Sort of fortuna audaces iuvat, but applied differently.

Soul crushing anxiety favors mediocrity.

Paper_Chase · 01-27-2012, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by guerilla

I don't think being a full-time entrepreneur favors "making it". You either need to be crushing it, or getting out.

That's where the entrepreneurial terror comes in. It's a push, sink or swim. A natural correcting mechanism, like bankruptcy is for poorly run firms.

Sort of fortuna audaces iuvat, but applied differently.

Soul crushing anxiety favors mediocrity.

What the fuck did you just say?

dchuk · 01-27-2012, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Paper_Chase

What the fuck did you just say?

entrepreneurial terror is what separates mediocre businessmen from the excellent businessmen. Running a business is supposed to freak you out...the people who persevere are the ones you read about in the news. The rest go bankrupt.

Kiopa_Matt · 01-27-2012, 08:18 AM

Anyone ever get it when they first wake up? That huge knot in your stomach. You just lie there for a few mins as your mind awakens, and while you realize your current life situation again. After a few mins, you go for your morning piss, then settle yourself in the computer chair to see what the previous night brought you.

After about 30 mins, you realize it's the same shit as the previous day, and you continue on without anxiety. Anyone else?

secretagentdad · 01-27-2012, 08:19 AM

I haz the terrorz.

I think its more from having a crappy ass ultra high risk business model though.

handrewrites · 01-27-2012, 09:48 AM

Kind of off-topic(?), but does anyone else get some of their best ideas while in the shitter?

I think it's got to do with increased bloodfow to the brain from the straining.

ShadowCaster · 01-27-2012, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by handrewrites

Kind of off-topic(?), but does anyone else get some of their best ideas while in the shitter?

I think it's got to do with increased bloodfow to the brain from the straining.

Yes! That's why I never go there without a tablet or at least cellphone to write things down

guerilla · 01-27-2012, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by secretagentdad

I haz the terrorz.

I think its more from having a crappy ass ultra high risk business model though.

And that's the incentive to simplify your model either by improving it or finding a better one.

kered · 01-27-2012, 02:06 PM

Two things I did to solve this...

- End my day by making a 'to do' list on a piece of paper of most important things I have to do the next day.

- Take at least an hour, preferably two, before bed and shut off work... do something totally unrelated to unwind and distract (read... walk dog... etc... no video games though that just amps me up).

- LAST RESORT: I have a little voice recorder by my bed so when I do wake up in middle of night with idea, press a button mumble idea, go back to sleep... no need to turn on light and write.

After a years of doing this and suffering with crap sleep for a long time this was my 'fix'...

Oh, and a big ass glass of red wine helps to.

secretagentdad · 01-27-2012, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by guerilla

And that's the incentive to simplify your model either by improving it or finding a better one.

I'm an addict. Its like day trading. Ultra high risk ultra high reward.
Never enough.

guerilla · 01-27-2012, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by secretagentdad

I'm an addict. Its like day trading. Ultra high risk ultra high reward.
Never enough.

At your age, you can do that. But 10 years from now, you won't. Time catches up with all of us.

01-26-2012, 11:47 PM	#51 (permalink)
turbolapp Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Houston, TexASS Posts: 8,335 iTrader: 7 / 100%	You know what helps me fall asleep? Focusing on the "spots". Not sure how to explain it but when you're in the dark and you're eyes are closed you can usually find little red fire fly like spots dancing around. (some sort of visual deprivation thing I guess) anyways following them as the float around sends me to sleep in record time: like 1 to 2 minutes. Where as just laying there waiting for sleep to come to me usually takes me an average of about 20 minutes. If I'm lucky. Seriously, find the spots. It will be your last conscious thought for the night. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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kered Canuck Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Vancouver Posts: 10 iTrader: 1 / 100%	Two things I did to solve this... - End my day by making a 'to do' list on a piece of paper of most important things I have to do the next day. - Take at least an hour, preferably two, before bed and shut off work... do something totally unrelated to unwind and distract (read... walk dog... etc... no video games though that just amps me up). - LAST RESORT: I have a little voice recorder by my bed so when I do wake up in middle of night with idea, press a button mumble idea, go back to sleep... no need to turn on light and write. After a years of doing this and suffering with crap sleep for a long time this was my 'fix'... Oh, and a big ass glass of red wine helps to. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Last edited by kered; 01-27-2012 at 07:16 PM..

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