SLEEPING AWAY

‘Sleep and indolence are not cousins of a good harvest’

Sleep is good because it is required to maintain and sustain a healthy body, but it becomes a problem when it is attached with indolence. An indolent farmer is a lazy farmer and a lazy farmer is not just any farmer who sleeps or a farmer who enjoys sleeping; he is the man who sleeps when he is supposed to be working in the farm.

Our ancestors usually believe that sleep and indolence do not make a good harvest. Any farmer who expects a bountiful harvest is not expected to spend most of his time sleeping. Yes, there is always a right time to sleep. No man can cheat nature; when nature calls, you can’t but obey.

Sleep is expected to come as a result of the extensive energy exerted into wok, so when you are tired after doing a strenuous work, you need to sleep in order to relax your nerves. A man who wishes to be great, effective and relevant in life ought not to choose sleep as his hobby. If you want to achieve what other people fail to achieve, you need to do what other people usually fail to do. A farmer that expects the biggest harvest needs to know that he has to spend more time in planning and working towards the harvest than many other farmers. Until you have accomplished your principal goals in life, you are not expected to sleep and work like every other person, then expect an outstanding result.

Genuinely great people are not those who sleep over their goals and ideas in life, they are the few ones whose goals and ideas cannot make them to sleep easily. Whatever you cannot sacrifice some sleep to plan or do in life is not really worth having. People who often plan while others are sleeping and work while others are slumbering usually achieve greater things while others are still sleeping. If you think, plan and work ahead of your competitors or colleagues, you will eventually have enough time to sleep and even achieve more things while you are asleep.

Don’t be lazy; lazy people joke with their future, they exchange the comfort that is reserved for their old age with the hard work designed for today. So, instead of them to relax and enjoy the fruits of their labor at old age, they end up laboring for the mistakes they made in their youthful days. If you want to live a fulfilled life, you need to control the way you sleep and avoid being indolent. May you never sleep away in life!

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