![]() ![]() ![]() “For most of us it is the mind, rather than the body, that disrupts restorative sleep,” explains Professor Meir Kryger in his new book, The Mystery of Sleep. How many times have you turned off the lights and gotten into bed only to have your mind start racing? Or, you start mentally composing an email you forgot to send? To help us get the most out of our shuteye time, here are some evening routines taken from the most successful people: Transition out of work mode with a “closing ritual” The productive evening routines of Tim Ferriss, Bill Gates, and Arianna Huffingtonįar from being unproductive, the one-third of our lives we spend sleep can dictate how energetic and successful we are in the other two-thirds. Sign up for your free account today and take back control over your time. RescueTime can tell you when you’re working too much, too late. And to make sure we reach our deep, restorative sleep, we need a proper evening routine. It isn’t just the quantity of sleep we get that matters, but the quality. So many things can get in the way of us reaching deep sleep, from stress and burnout to late-night screen usage, eating late, and physical issues. “Deep sleep is how we convert all those interactions that we make during the day into our long-term memory and personalities.” “When we don’t get the deep sleep we need, it inhibits our ability to learn and for our cells and bodies to recover,” explains sleep researcher Dan Gartenberg, in his TED talk on The brain benefits of deep sleep. Yet, according to the National Sleep Foundation, some 47 million adults do not get a restorative night’s sleep. It’s this deep sleep that’s so important to being a high-functioning individual. ![]()
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