One of the most common concerns I hear in the office is bad sleep. Not enough sleep. Interrupted sleep. Trouble falling or staying asleep.
A year ago I wrote a long post about strategies to avoid insomnia, both obvious and overlooked ones. Within that post I did a hand written checklist. Something about an old fashioned checklist still works better for me than an electronic one on my iPhone. Those boxes never seem to get checked off, and now number in the thousands I think.
And so with the rude awakening of daylight saving time springing us forward last weekend, and a rise in complaints yesterday and today in the office so far, I made a quick pdf of that list from last year. It’s worth a review, maybe a print out, maybe a forward to the insomniacs in your circle.
Here is a photo of what the above downloadable pdf file will look like:
And finally here is that deep dive article for anyone interested in more nuance and detail. Reading through the whole thing is also sleep-inducing, so there’s that.
Hang in there this week! May your circadian rhythms soon readjust to less daylight in the morning, and more at night. And may the sparrows incessantly chirping outside your window at 6 AM now chirp away starting at 7 AM.
Or be eaten by Eagles.
I appreciate the tip to focus on rest and not obsess about sleep time. Sometimes I get too caught up in my Fitbit sleep stats.
Eaten by eagles! Oh my, those sparrows must make quite a racket at your place.😅 I appreciate your extensive list of coping strategies. I have my sleep time set on my phone and it reminds me an hour before that bed time is near. Then I stop using the little screens and we switch our viewing to programs that are light and funny. This seems to help us get to sleep.