{"id":36,"date":"2006-01-19T20:21:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/01\/19\/pip-personal-improvement-project\/"},"modified":"2012-04-28T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T13:17:25","slug":"pip-personal-improvement-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"PIP: Personal Improvement Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started what I call my &#8216;PIP&#8217; or &#8216;Personal Improvement Project&#8217;. The new year has sparked a lot of change already. So far I&#8217;ve dropped BusinessBits, established my own domain and completely reorganized my workspace.<\/p>\n<p>But now I&#8217;m on to bigger things.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned the other day, I&#8217;ve started a <a href=\"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/01\/18\/sleep-cycles\/\">biphasic sleep schedule<\/a>. I went to sleep two nights ago at 1am (in order to ween myself into it) and woke up at 6. Last night I napped from 8:30p-10p &#8230; and then again from 10:03-midnight. Oops. I think my body doesn&#8217;t yet realize what I&#8217;m doing, which is fine&#8230; I expected this. Anyway, I got up at midnight, got some things done and went back to bed at 2. This morning I was back up at 6. I plan to try the nap again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>My ultimate goal is to get through four sleep cycles each day. This means I hit REM sleep three times at night and then once during my nap. I wake up immediately after the cycle is complete. Now, I&#8217;ve read that most people&#8217;s cycles are about 90 minutes long but it looks like mine are only about 75 minutes long. I&#8217;ve discovered this now having looked back at the two times I woke up without an alarm. Going back to my goal, four cycles equates to five hours of sleep. From what I&#8217;ve read, this could be more than plenty.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to adjust a bit and see how things go. Technically I&#8217;m on my second day and I&#8217;m not feeling tired or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started what I call my &#8216;PIP&#8217; or &#8216;Personal Improvement Project&#8217;. The new year has sparked a lot of change already. So far I&#8217;ve dropped BusinessBits, established my own domain and completely reorganized my workspace. But now I&#8217;m on to bigger things. As mentioned the other day, I&#8217;ve started a biphasic sleep schedule. I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-biphasic-sleep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}