Your body is a 24-hour machine, so having routines that sync your internal clock to the current season has a massive impact on your ability to tolerate stress, energy levels, and whether you can fall and stay asleep.
At the end of the day sleeping is like landing a plane, not flicking a switch, so have a routine that starts 2-3 hours before bedtime.
Whether you bounce out of bed or take a few hours to warm-up, have a routine for the first few hours of the day.
Most of the time my routine includes:
ā±ļø | Waking up and going to bed at roughly the same time (even if Iām late to bed and a bit dusty I resist the urge to sleep in). |
š³ | Having breakfast on my front deck which gets the morning sun, and avoiding bright light in the evening. |
š | Doing something every morning to get my body moving, even if it's only 5-10 minutes of yoga. |
š | Not eating after 7pm. |
So where does sleep sit on your priority list?
When it comes to stress, performance and health, consistent quality sleep is number one, but it's the first to be sacrificed for a deadline, night out, or our work.
That's fine in the short-term but realise there's always a biological cost.
How much? That depends on whether you have daily habits that minimise the price and stop a short-term thing becoming a long-term problem.
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