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What 13 successful people do before going to bed

By Jacquelyn Smith and Vivian Giang – Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 2:47 PM EDT

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Morning routines are important — but bedtime rituals can have a serious impact on your success.

That’s because the very last thing you do before bed affects your mood and energy level the following day, since it often determines how well and how much you sleep.
Knowing that, we decided to find out how the most successful spend their nights before surrendering to sleep.
Turns out some — like President Obama and writer Michael Lewis — are night owls, preferring to work while the rest of the world sleeps; while others —like Arianna Huffington and Sheryl Sandberg — know how important sleep is, and force themselves to cool down.
President Barack Obama is a "night owl" and likes to work late.

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Unlike Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, who prefers to rise in the early hours, the current president stays up late, reports Carrie Budoff Brown at Politco. He is said to hold conference calls with senior staff as late as 11 p.m. and reads or writes before heading to bed.
In a 2011 interview with Newsweek, Obama calls himself a "night owl" and describes his typical evening:
"Have dinner with the family, hang out with the kids, and put them to bed about 8:30 p.m. And then I'll probably read briefing papers or do paperwork or write stuff until about 11:30 p.m., and then I usually have about a half hour to read before I go to bed ... about midnight, 12:30 a.m. — sometimes a little later."
Obama has also said that if he's home late at night, he'll try to catch "The Daily Show." "I think Jon Stewart's brilliant," Obama tells Rolling Stone.
Inventor Benjamin Franklin asked himself the same self-improvement question every night.

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In his autobiography, Franklin outlined a schedule that would lead him to "moral perfection." In this ideal schedule, Franklin asked himself the same self-improvement question every night: "What good have I done today?"
He described his other rituals before bed as "put things in their places, supper, music or diversion or conversation, and examination of the day."
Franklin tracked his progress on self-improvement daily.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg turns off her phone at night.

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Sandberg might work for a tech company, but she knows when to unplug.
Sandberg tells Jefferson Graham at USAToday that it's "painful," but she turns her phone off at night so that she "won't get woken up."
"I check my e-mail the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night," says Sandberg.
Winston Churchill had an evening ritual that included a short nap, bath, and drinks well past midnight.

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The British prime minister kept to a similar daily routine no matter what happened. In the book "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work," author Mason Currey recorded Churchill's schedule:
Around 5 p.m., the prime minister would drink a weak whisky and soda before taking a nap for an hour and a half. Churchill said this siesta, or short nap, allowed him to work for 1.5 days every 24 hours. When he woke, he bathed and got ready for dinner.
At 8 p.m., Churchill would eat dinner, which was often followed by drinks and cigars well past midnight.
Due to his irregular sleep schedule, Churchill was said to hold War Cabinet meetings in his bath.
Stephen King's nightly routine includes washing his hands and making sure all the pillows face a certain way.

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"It’s not any different than a bedtime routine," says King as recorded in Lisa Rogak's book "Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King."
"I brush my teeth, I wash my hands. Why would anybody wash their hands before they go to bed? I don’t know. And the pillows are supposed to be pointed a certain way. The open side of the pillowcase is supposed to be pointed in toward the other side of the bed. I don’t know why."
Arianna Huffington only reads "real books" before bed.

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Sleep advocate Huffington recommends banning iPads, Kindles, laptops, and any other electronics from the bedroom to unwind.
Instead, she likes to read the old-fashioned way, "real books."
Michael Lewis prefers to write between the hours of 7 p.m. and 4 a.m.

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Author Robert Boynton asked Lewis about his ideal writing routine, as recorded in the book "The New New Journalism":
"Left to my own devices, with no family, I'd start writing at 7 p.m. and stop at 4 a.m.," says Lewis. "That is the way I used to write. I liked to get ahead of everybody. I'd think to myself, 'I'm starting tomorrow's workday, tonight!' Late nights are wonderfully tranquil. No phone calls, no interruptions. I like the feeling of knowing that nobody is trying to reach me."
Former Googler Keval Desai works at night, so he can concentrate.

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Desai, a former Google product director and current partner at InterWest Partners, says that staying up is a habit of his. Desai tells Lydia Dishman at Fast Company that he likes to pick one project per night and doesn't go to bed until the project is done.
"During the day most of my time is spent in meetings with entrepreneurs, and the only time I can find alone to do work that requires some concentration is when the rest of the household is asleep," he says.
Kate White, former Cosmo editor-in-chief, likes to write while standing up in the kitchen.

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As a magazine editor, White preferred to work on her fiction writing in the early morning hours and switch to magazine editing and blogging at night.
"My craziest trick is that I regularly do my work standing up at a rolling butcher block counter in my kitchen. If I were to work sitting down, I’d fall asleep," White told Dishman at Fast Company. "I know it sounds awful, but I think of it as if I’m tending bar in the evening — a bar of ideas. And I always keep the kitchen TV on so it doesn’t seem too lonely. I drink several espressos at night, which really helps."
Bill Gates reads for an hour before bed, no matter what time he gets home.

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The Microsoft billionaire told the Seattle Times: "I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep."
He enjoys "deeply informative and beautifully written" books (in June he released a list of six books he recommends) and his reading topics range from healthcare to climate change to business and politics.
Gates says he considers himself a very fast reader, despite never taking a speed-reading course.
Vera Wang uses this "peaceful" time to look over materials her staffers send her.

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"My bedroom is my sanctuary," the fashion designer told Fortune in 2006. "It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing — at least conceptually if not literally."
She said staffers send her stuff at home, "and I always read it at night — the only time when seven people aren't coming to me at once," Fortune reported.
Buffer CEO Joel Gascoigne walks every evening right before bed.

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Gascoigne takes a 20-minute walk every evening to allow total disengagement from his work before turning off the lights.
"This is a wind down period, and allows me to evaluate the day’s work, think about the greater challenges, gradually stop thinking about work, and reach a state of tiredness," he writes in a blog post.
Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express, writes down three things he wants to accomplish the next day.

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Before retiring for the night, Chenault says he likes to write down the top three things he wants to accomplish the next day. This helps him prioritize first thing the next morning.
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Like Obama I tend to be a Night Owl ever since I first found Johnny Carson and the tonight show before Tape VCRs were invented around 1960 when I was 12. Though I used to stay up during my late teens and early twenties sometimes to 4 am in the morning writing poetry or music lyrics or prose, now I often will go to bed at literally any time early or late but not usually after 1 am. Being retired can allow a person to move in their natural rhythms of both sleeping at waking more. So, all of a persons functions both bodily, spiritually, and physically might work better. I don't ever get into bed until I'm in such a sleepy biorhythm that I know I'll fall asleep. Otherwise, I will just lay there and never sleep. So, unless I'm really sleepy I find it is best just not to get into bed whatever time it is.

I consider myself to be successful in that I have stayed alive to age 66, have a great wife with 3 college degrees, have enough money now to live to 100 likely or more (as long as the world economy doesn't collapse and stay collapsed for 20 to 30 years or more. But then, we all would be in trouble then wouldn't we?), I have 3 great biological kids all of them either in college or already with College degrees and living their lives all over and traveling the world when they can. I also have two successful step kids now in their early 40s with one or more college degrees each. I also have one grandson that I hope to see for the first time in the next few months as he lives quite far away from me at present. However, I will work on changing that if I can so he lives nearer to me so I can influence his life in a good way growing up. So, likely that would mean them moving or me spending more time where they are.

Mostly, success for me personally isn't about money, it is about having my health at 66 which is quite remarkable for me in my way of thinking. I think almost dying at age 50 for about 8 months helped me have the capacity to live to 100 or more possibly. Here is how it works. If you think you are 18 to 25 and act like that into your 40s and 50s without modifying your behavior at all then sudden death is often a likely outcome because you aren't realizing how your body and mind and brain and heart and emotions are changing. So, unless you can address your physical mortality and address not only your diet, health and behavior then an early death likely will greet you. However, at 66 I still have a KLR 650 dual sport motorcycle that I still ride and I still ski downhill and cross country, hike at least a mile a day with my dogs in the forests and along the ocean, and like to write and compile and quote information here at my blog site to make both my life better and more enriched and yours as well, watch movies with my wife and outside of my kids living all over the place, I'm pretty happy with my life.

Also, now all of them are out of the nest so to speak, I can travel more with my wife and stay young from all the necessary adaptation. Because staying in one place in a rut is going to atrophy most people's minds. So, changing scenery (as long as you don't get too extreme like being in a different country every day the rest of your life, might be useful to your happiness and longevity for your sake, your spouse's sake and your kids sake as well as all the good things you can do for your friends and acquaintances along the way.

Traveling to see people and places you love is often a way to live a really long time if you want to. Exploration and adaptation is often good for the heart, the mind and the soul. As long as your are growing and learning your life can go on and on in amazing ways. By God's Grace!

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Parts of West Antarctica are undergoing significant change

Melting ice is fuelling sea-level rise around the coast of Antarctica, a new report in Nature Geoscience finds.

Near-shore waters went up by about 2mm per year more than the general trend for the Southern Ocean as a whole in the period between 1992 and 2011.
Scientists say the melting of glaciers and the thinning of ice shelves are dumping 350 billion tonnes of additional water into the sea annually.
This influx is warming and freshening the ocean, pushing up its surface.
"Freshwater is less dense than salt water and so in regions where an excess of freshwater has accumulated we expect a localised rise in sea level," explained Dr Craig Rye from the University of Southampton, UK, and lead author on the new journal paper.
Globally, sea levels are going up, in part because of the contribution of the world's diminishing ice fields. This is well known.
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While the satellite data record indicates there has been a general upward trend in SSH in the Southern Ocean south of 50 degrees of up to 2.4mm per year, those satellites also indicate a more rapid rise in waters sitting on the continental shelf.
Mass losses Modelling by Dr Rye's team suggests that this additional 2mm per year can be attributed almost exclusively to freshwater runoff from Antarctica, and not to some climatic oscillation that might make sea levels "breathe" up and down on decadal timescales.
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Quite how the freshening of surface waters might be influencing this phenomenon is now a target for study.
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May All Beings Attain Bliss

I Started using this mantra when I first began to meet Tibetan Lamas in Oregon and California in 1980.

This morning as I was waking up I found myself doing this and a very warm feeling came over me as I experienced this statement for all beings in the universe in all time and space.

I realized how great this is to increase one's health and peace this statement. I also realized if someone was having trouble sleeping these days of turmoil on earth that this statement might bring peaceful sleep to you.

I sort of see the problems in the world as speed bumps on a road when driving a car, motorcycle or bicycle.

If you pretend those speed bumps aren't there and hit them at 70 mph in your car or motorcycle you are going to go off a cliff or be in a tree with your car and likely not live through them.

However, if you are aware of them you slow down your vehicle so you don't die from hitting them.

So, whether it is overpopulation, Global Climate change caused by overpopulation, people freaking out and becoming sociopaths from the stress of all this or becoming serial killers like ISIS members, you can begin to deal with all the craziness on earth now. You don't have to be a victim to it, but you can navigate through it and around it with your finances and your life and health. You don't have to die or get freaked out by it. But, you do have to slow down your car and realize it is what it is.

People who die from these things often don't see it coming and get caught in it through ignorance of the truth.

You don't have to get caught with your pants down. You can take control of your lives and slow down for the speed bumps before you are dead.

You may witness many people in the news hitting the speed bumps at 70 to 100 mph and think to yourself, "God Bless them" they didn't have a chance. But, you and I have a chance and can pray for them and try to make good decisions so our lives are not eventually destroyed by the mistakes others are making now.

"May all beings attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss"
"May all being be free from suffering and the cause of suffering"
"May all beings never be without the Supreme Bliss that is free from all near and far
all Grasping and aversion"

if you also want the Tibetan Buddhist ending it is:

By this Merit may I become like the Buddha's and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions and the three times."

(the ten directions allow one to navigate all space, the three times allow one to navigate the past, present and future of the universe).

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Protesters switched on their cellphones at a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday night after China curbed election reforms in the city. Credit Bobby Yip/Reuters

HONG KONG — China’s legislature laid down strict limits on Sunday to proposed voting reforms in Hong Kong, pushing back against months of rallies calling for free, democratic elections.

The decision by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee drew battle lines in what pro-democracy groups warned would be a deepening confrontation over the political future of the city and of China. The committee demanded procedural barriers for candidates for the city’s leader that would ensure Beijing remained the gatekeeper to that position — and to political power over the city.

Li Fei, a deputy secretary general of the committee, told a news conference in Beijing that the nominating guidelines — including a requirement that candidates “love the country, and love Hong Kong” — would “protect the broad stability of Hong Kong now and in the future.”

The move closes one of the few avenues left for gradual political liberalization in China after a sustained campaign against dissent on the mainland this year under President Xi Jinping. In pressing its offensive in Hong Kong, Beijing has chosen a showdown with a protest movement unlike any it has ever faced on the mainland.

A protester in Hong Kong held a placard reading, “Communist Party, you lie!” at a rally attended by several thousand people. Credit Bobby Yip/Reuters

Hong Kong’s opposition forces enjoy civil liberties denied in the rest of China and, capitalizing on those freedoms, have taken a more confrontational approach than seen before in Hong Kong.

They said the limits set by Beijing for selection of the city’s leader, the chief executive, made a mockery of the “one person, one vote” principle that had been promised to Hong Kong.

“After having lied to Hong Kong people for so many years, it finally revealed itself today,” said Alan Leong, a pro-democracy legislator. “Hong Kong people are right to feel betrayed. It’s certain now that the central government will be effectively appointing Hong Kong’s chief executive.”

Occupy Central, the main Hong Kong group advocating open elections, said it was planning civil disobedience protests in the city’s commercial heart. Several thousand people turned out for a rally opposing Beijing’s plan on Sunday night.

Benny Tai, right, co-founder of the Occupy Central movement, rallied democracy activists next to the Hong Kong government complex on Sunday. Credit Alex Ogle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

“We are no longer willing to be docile subjects,” Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central and an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, told the crowd. “Our hope is that people gathered here will be dauntless civil resisters. What is our hope? Our hope is that today Hong Kong has entered a new era, an era of civil disobedience, an era of resistance.”

Other groups were also preparing to protest, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students urged university students to boycott classes.

Beyond their consequences for this former British colony of 7.2 million people, the tight reins on Hong Kong politics reflect a fear among leaders in Beijing that political concessions here would ignite demands for liberalization on the mainland, a quarter-century after such hopes were extinguished at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

“They are afraid that caving in to Hong Kong would show weakness,” Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, said in a telephone interview. “They believe that political weakness will encourage Hong Kong to demand more and will give opponents of the party’s rule in China great confidence to challenge the party.”

People gathered in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest election limits imposed by China. Credit Alex Ogle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Since taking leadership of the Communist Party almost two years ago, President Xi has orchestrated intense campaigns in China against political dissent and demands for competitive democracy, civil society and a legal system beyond party control. But Hong Kong presents special challenges.

Advocates and opponents of political liberalization alike have seen Hong Kong as a potential incubator for change in China since it was returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, the territory has had considerable autonomy and retained a wealth of Western-style freedoms under an arrangement known as “one country, two systems.”

The struggle over electoral change here pits the Chinese authorities and their allies in Hong Kong against an opposition that claims robust middle-class support, protections by the city’s independent judiciary and a voice in an independent, though beleaguered, news media.

“China’s two most important cities are Beijing and Hong Kong,” Hu Jia, a prominent dissident in Beijing, said in a telephone interview on Sunday. He said he had been placed under house arrest, like other dissidents, before the National People’s Congress announcement.

Protesters in the Occupy Central movement outside the Hong Kong government complex on Sunday. Credit Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images

“In the territory controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, only Hong Kong has some space for free speech, some judicial independence, so it is a mirror for people on the mainland,” he said. “The outcome of this battle for democracy will also determine future battles for democracy for all of China.”

Chinese officials have accused Hong Kong’s democracy groups of serving as tools for subversion by Western forces seeking to chip away at party control.

Mr. Li, the legislative official, on Sunday accused them of “sowing confusion” and “misleading society” by arguing that elections for the chief executive should follow international standards. “Each country’s historical, cultural, economic, social and political conditions and circumstances are different, and so the rules formulated for elections naturally also differ,” he said.

Under current law, the chief executive is chosen by an Election Committee, whose approximately 1,200 members are selected by constituencies generally loyal to Beijing and the city’s business elite.

A storm front moved over Hong Kong on Sunday as protesters began gathering before China’s legislature announced its decision on suffrage in the territory. Credit Alex Ogle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

According to the Chinese legislature’s proposal, the leader would be chosen by popular vote starting in 2017, as promised, but candidates would first have to win an endorsement from at least half the members of a nominating committee. The composition of that committee would be based on that of the current Election Committee, according to the decision, announced at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.

Mr. Li said that the existing committee was already “broadly representative” of the Hong Kong electorate, and so would furnish the right basis for a nominating committee in future elections, an assertion that Hong Kong democrats have roundly rejected. Democracy advocates expect that the new committee, like the existing one, will exclude candidates seen as unfavorable by Beijing.

Its composition would ensure “that democrats have no chance of getting nominated,” said Michael Davis, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. In fact, he said, it would raise the bar. Candidates have to win only one-eighth of the support of the current committee but would have to win 50 percent under the new guidelines. “As far as I can see, the government has no capacity to offer a deal the democrats will take in this,” he said.

The Chinese government fears that direct nominations would allow candidates hostile to Beijing, and it has said direct nominations would also contravene the Basic Law, the document governing Hong Kong’s relationship with the mainland. The People’s Daily, the main newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, said in an editorial on Monday that “nobody who is antagonistic” to the central government should ever be allowed to become chief executive.

From left, Edward Chin, organizer of Financial Professionals for Occupy Central, Benny Tai, co-founder of the Occupy Central movement, and the activist Bob Kraft addressed members of the news media at a protest outside government offices in Hong Kong on Friday. Credit Alex Ogle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The Hong Kong government will use the Chinese legislature’s proposal as a framework for an electoral reform bill. That bill then must win approval from the city’s 70-member Legislative Council, where the 27 democratic members could still block its passage by the required two-thirds majority. Emily Lau, chairwoman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, said they would. “We will veto this revolting proposal,” she said Sunday.

But C. Y. Leung, Hong Kong’s current, pro-Beijing chief executive, said killing the bill would also kill universal suffrage.

“Five million Hong Kong people would be deprived of the voting right that they would be otherwise entitled to,” he said. “We cannot afford a standstill in our constitutional development or else the prosperity, or stability, of Hong Kong will be at stake.”

The clash in Hong Kong will be more about winning over public opinion than winning control of the crowded streets. Opinion polls show that most Hong Kong citizens support the demand for “unfiltered” electoral choice, but also that many have qualms about possible disruption from protests.

On the main campus of the University of Hong Kong on Monday, there were mixed views about the wisdom of a student strike, but considerable support for the idea.

“Going on strike would be a sensible way to show our concern,” said Echo Lo, an architecture student. “ If we don’t do anything, they’ll say that we don’t care.”

But others were warier. “The decision of the central government was a bit tight, with no negotiation,” said Terrence Tang, a masters student in economics. “But I also agree that any country must take care of its security. It’s difficult because Hong Kong is so special.”

The Chinese government and the Hong Kong political establishment have accused Occupy Central and allied groups of recklessly imperiling the city’s reputation for political stability and support for business. And many ordinary Hong Kong residents have voiced worry about any political conflict that could hurt their livelihoods.

Occupy Central says it will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience to avoid major disruption. Its organizers have said that they do not plan to plunge into mass protests immediately.

“We’re not making threats, we’re just sending warning signals,” said Mr. Tai, the group’s co-founder. “The house is on fire, something has to be done.”

Alan Wong contributed reporting from Hong Kong, and Patrick Zuo contributed research from Beijing.

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