Sleep is a practice just like anything else. I highly recommend "Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success" by Shawn Stevenson. This is available in print and audio form (great for those of us commuting back and forth from school and work) and is only 6.5 hours long in that format. It covers everything from how a lack of sunlight affects our sleep, avoiding screens before bedtime, and has a whole chapter on smart supplementation. What an incredible difference this has made in my life and in giving my body what it needs to heal and learn. Even if you have an off night of sleep on the night before the test, you can have banked enough restorative sleep to not let this wreck your performance. Great news for those of us who tend to obsess the night before!

I will be 41. Speaking from a lot of years of experience, you can't have regrets when you look back at your career and schooling. Just take everything as a learning experience and treasure it. Squeeze every bit of knowledge out of life and apply it diligently as you go forward. Don't wish you could have done this or that, just put your head down and do it! I started college when I was 17. I went for years and never graduated. I have over 175 college credit hours and it does not add up to a degree just yet. I am in the last of my four classes that I need to complete to graduate with my bachelor's degree and I will finish the last one just one month before starting law school. I own a business and work 50 hours/week. I will be making an hour long commute four days/week and arriving back home at 10:30 on those nights. Every Friday night and all weekend long I will study and I will repeat this for four years. I don't intend to regret one moment of that time, but rather am looking forward to the grit that I will have gained and the added benefits that being an attorney will provide for my company. I intend to be a force to be reckoned with for another 40 years after that.

You are never too old to go chasing your dreams! Soldier on and don't give up!

Thank you for all of this. Lots to implement!