Don’t Let Your Enemies Control You

Steven Barnes
5 min readJun 18, 2022

I had to get up at 1:00 in the morning to take care of a little family issue Thursday night which tore a chunk out of my sleep cycle. Had a meeting Friday morning, and woke up perfectly alert, but as expected, after the meeting my energy crashed, and I needed a nap. This meant that I couldn’t do 5 sets of 11 reps of Sun Salutations — I could FEEL the degree the sleep loss had damaged by body-mind connection. Yuck. But I also know how to get back on the horse.

Today I’m back to 5 sets of 5, and if that goes well, I”ll probably increase tomorrow, possibly going as high as…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.