Bucky 40 Blinks Sleep Give You a Great Night's Sleep

 
How do you know when you've gotten enough rest? While you could obsess over the precise number of minutes and hours you spend sleeping, I think there are easier ways to know that you have gotten enough rest.

     Here are a couple of them:

     - you're more patient with other people
     - you actually look forward to the day's activities
     -  there's a lot more smiling going on
     - you feel tired at the END of the day
     - you get more things checked off your to do list

There are many products out there that can seriously help you get  the rest and sleep that you need. One of them, the 40 Blinks Ultralight Sleep Mask, which I've written about here and here, helps shut out the intrusions of an increasingly restless world.   This mask has hypoallergenic natural fills.

Here are a couple of sensible New Year's resolutions that will also help you to get a good night's sleep: 

• worry less about the things that are beyond your control.
• take more decisive action on the things that are under your control.
• get enough rest that you can tell the difference

Get Some Sleep...Succeed in Business

An interesting piece by Cathie Anderson in yesterday's Sacramento Bee.  At Perspectives 2012 last week, Anderson writes that media mogul Ariana Huffington told business leaders that if they want to succeed in business they need to get more sleep.  Sounds paradoxical, until you think about  research that directly links lack of sleep to health problems like weight gain, early diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other problems.

She also quotes Amer Khan, M.D., a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine, as saying that the average American gets 6 1/2 hours of sleep every night, which is significantly less than in the early 1900s when the average was 9 hours per night. Dr. Khan's blog where he writes about sleep in a personal and practical way can be found here.

The problem with not getting enough sleep, as I can well attest from personal experience, is that it makes it harder to concentrate, harder to make decisions, and generally makes you crabby.  It also makes you more prone to stress, which can lead to the myriad of health problems just noted.

One of the best ways I know of to ensure a good night's sleep is to block out all sound and light, which for me means wearing a sleep mask and ear plugs.  There are many choices when it comes to sleep masks but the two I like best are the eye shades mask and the 40 blinks foam mask, both made by Seattle based Bucky.  The eye shades mask includes a pair of ear plugs.

So until next time, sweet dreams!!

The Litttle Black Bucky Blinks



Bucky Blinks in Color



One of my customers recently asked what colors he could order the Bucky blinks mask in, and when I told him black he said that was perfect.  But it got me thinking about whether I should be carrying this sleep mask in the multitude of other colors and patterns that it comes in.  I have carried other colors in the past, notably the fuchsia and turquoise blue.  They eventually sell but never at the near breakneck speed at which the basic black Blinks do.

 

Maybe it's like the Little Black Dress.  Audrey Hepburn made this dress a fashion statement for all time.  And I know I'm not alone when I feel an almost gravitational pull toward a classic, stylish black dress when I'm shopping (despite the fact that I probably own 5 of them already). 

 

The Bucky blinks mask is like that, it's simple, well designed, functional, and yes it's even stylish particularly when it's in black.  And that's probably why it sells so much faster than its more colorful counterparts.

 

I think I'll stick with the sleep mask equivalent of the Little Black Dress!