How to Sleep Better

1. You go to bed.
2. You can't sleep until X hours later.
3. You wake up with 5 hours of sleep.

You're tired/groggy/unproductive for the rest of the day.

You continue with the process for X weeks/months/years.

Why Do You Suck at Sleeping?

Take Bob.

1. Bob chill-axes during the day.
2. He doesn't push himself.
3. He doesn't sweat/work-out/push-himself.

He spends his day relaxing/resting/chill-axing (because dude says he's tooooooooooo tired "cuz I couldn't sleep last night!") -- so at night, he can't sleep because he's already too rested.

Read that moforo%$^^^%$^ again:

• He's too rested.
• He's too rested.
• He's too rested.

When you're too rested, you convert your resting time for sleep to your waking life.

As a result:

• Bob's never fully rested.
• Bob doesn't fully energize himself to completely annihilate his tasks.

Instead, groggy Bob starts perpetuating the cycle of S.U.C.K.:

1. too-rested-so-can't-sleep
2. tired-during-the-day-so-can't-DO
3. too-rested-so-can't-sleep
4. tired-during-the-day-so-can't-DO
5. etc., etc., etc., etc.

The cycle of monster destruction makes Bob tired all-the-^^@^^@-time.

How Do You Sleep Better?

During your waking days:

• Push yourself.
• Strain yourself.
• Exhaust yourself.

For instance:

• Getting in a full day of work productively completing ridiculous tasks will tire your waking days; therefore, you channel your rest to sleep like a freak.
• Strenuously running X miles exhausts your energies during the day, letting you sleep GOOD.

Flash Back

...to the last time you took an outdoor vacation:

• "I slept so well last night because I was tired from too much skiing!"
• "I slept so well last night because yesterday's hike exhasted me!"

Or, the time you worked productively GOOD:

• "I slept so well last night because of the yesterday's 9876987956875969 presentations we did!"

Work Yourself

Forcing yourself to work/tire/exhaust during the day?

1. Get more things done
2. Sleep better.
3. Rest better.
4. Increase energy.
5. Repeat energized cycle.

You start pushing yourself out of the too-rested-phase, and hop on the cycle of productive goodness.

Work.

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