I’ve been to 30 countries. I love international travel. There’s just one problem if you’re a member of the Online Business Jet Set:
Jet Lag.
I don’t know about you, but Jetlag normally screws me up for about a day and a half “going” and 4-5 days “coming home.” It really sucks.
Actually it USED TO suck. It doesn’t suck anymore.
Here’s how I cured my Jet Lag.
I read a book called Jet Lag Passport which taught me how to use “EFT Tapping” – tapping on acupressure points – to shift my body’s clock.
Now, I don’t wake up at 3am and I don’t feel like a truck ran over me at 5pm. Just so long as the hours of sleep add up, the time zones are not a problem. I’ve been doing this for 4 years. The difference is day and night.
In my recent trip to Israel, my plane left Chicago at 7pm Chicago time. I did the tapping exercises. Landed in Zurich at 10am Switzerland time. I spent the whole day in Zurich. Took an 11pm flight to Tel Aviv and arrived at my hotel at 4:30am Israel time.
I slept a few hours, had breakfast at 9am, slept till 1pm, then spent the day sightseeing. Went to bed at 10pm, woke up at 6am. No jet lag!
Six days later I went to bed at 12am, got up at 3am, took off at 6am. Took a nap. Landed in Poland at 10am. Spent the day in Warsaw. Boarded a flight to Chicago at 4:30pm Warsaw time. Flew 9 hours to Chicago, did tapping exercises, slept as best I could. Landed at 7:30pm Chicago time.
Had ice cream with my kids, picked up my daughter from a party. “Hit the wall” at 10:30pm. Went to bed at 11pm. Woke up the next morning at 6am. No more naps and no jet lag. This works!
Another tip: As soon as my trip to/from begins, I align my eating schedule with my destination. If it’s 3am in the country I’m flying to right now, I do NOT eat a big meal. Hey baby, a little hunger is better than jet lag any day.
You can buy this book for $20 at www.jetlagpassport.com. This isn’t an affiliate link, it’s just something I hope will help you. Best $20 I sever spent.
Perry Marshall
P.S.: Everyone who comes to my live events – seminars, 4-Man Intensive & Roundtable – gets this book free.
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Perry Marshall has launched two revolutions in sales and marketing. In Pay-Per-Click advertising, he pioneered best practices and wrote the world's best selling book on Google advertising. And he's driven the 80/20 Principle deeper than any other author, creating a new movement in business.
He is referenced across the Internet and by Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, INC and Forbes Magazine.
3 Comments on “Curing Jet Lag”
The best way I’ve found, which is also immensely fun, is to get completely ratted on the first evening after arriving. 10-12 pints or half a bottle of whisky should do it (or whatever you can take!). Make sure you do it in the evening so you fall asleep around midnight and wake up at 10, with a bit of a hangover, granted, but the jetlag is gone!!
I was really interested in this item – I had travelled 100,000kms in an aircraft by the time I was twelve. Now that is being in the Jet Set.
Guess what? I suffer jet lag like the flu!
My last trip out to Asia via Hong Kong, I spent the previous month going to bed at roughly half way to HK time and the last week around 1 hr before HK time. It helped a little, but your tip about munching – well that is pretty sensible advice and certainly I will try it next time.
On a trip from the mountain time zone to Sub-Saharan Africa I was perscribed Ambien with instructions to stay awake until normal bedtime in the new timezone. Two nights and I was good to go. Magic.
It sounds like this method is free of drugs. I’ll give it a try on my next long trip and report back in.