Sleep Deprived. Yet Excited!
It’s been some months since I’ve slept for a full 8 to 10 hours. I can’t even remember the last time I had a full night/day of sleep. It’s been crazy the last few months. It’s been crazy awesome!!
For the last many months, I’ve been running two full work shifts, from 11am to 8pm working on BionicWP, and the other from 9pm to 5am running The WP Help. Building a PaaS/SaaS company while making sure the current business keeps running isn’t easy. I’ve been sleeping less than 4 hours on average. Yet I’m excited, I’m motivated.
Each morning when I wake up to go to the office to work with the BionicWP team, I’m excited and looking forward to the day. The team is excellent, making it even more fun and stimulating to be in the office and spend time with them. Work on exciting new features, debug errors, and plan our WordPress domination schemes. All the time making sure The WP Help and our current customers are well taken care of. With over 900 hosted sites, we get a ton of requests every day as we not just host but also manage a lot of these sites, so doing edits and changes. Fortunately, I have an outstanding, young team of WordPress engineers working round the clock, ensuring all our clients are well taken care of.
Just a disclaimer here: I’m not advocating for sleeping less than the recommended 7-8 hours daily. I understand the value of sleep and hope as we grow, become more stable, and have more helping hands my routine would ease up. Right now, we (Michael and Me) have big dreams, but they can’t be achieved by sleeping. They can only be achieved through hard work. Naturally, I’ve always been a 5-6 hour sleeper, I rarely slept 7+ hours unless I wasn’t feeling well or I was depressed. Maintaining this lifestyle for the last many months hasn’t had any adverse effects, at least not those that I can see/feel right now. People do tell me I’ll experience them when I’m older. As with everything else, it’s tough to stop yourself when the adrenaline is pumping.
Update on July Posts Goal
I had given myself a goal of writing 15 posts in July, its 21st of July, and this is my 8th post. I’m a little behind schedule, but I’m happy I’ve made it so far. I think I’ll make it!