The Sleep Paradox
Have you ever told yourself, “Tonight, I’ll get to bed early and crush it tomorrow!”…only to find yourself scrolling away at your phone at 2:00 a.m. in the morning? #storyofmylife (Check out my sleeping tips below to find out what to do with your phone at night).
The truth is that we’ve all been guilty of staying up past our bedtime. At one point or another, we’ve stayed up late trying to cram for a test or finish a last-minute project. We’ve told ourselves that we’re being more productive by working into the wee hours of the morning. Ironically, research reveals that we end up being less effective during the day when we don’t sleep enough the night before.
“Your brain is actually very active during sleep doing important things — it’s not just resting. And if you don’t get sleep you don’t function on a number of levels the way you should.”
– Carl W. Bazil, MD, PhD, the Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center
One of my favorite sleeping tips is simply to get more of it!
Unfortunately, many of us are sleep-deprived. According to a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, more than half of adults choose to sleep an average of an hour less than the amount they know will refresh them.
Sometimes it seems like there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get #allthethings done. Sleep is often the first thing to get sacrificed in the name of “productivity,” followed by working while eating and skipping meals altogether.
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