What are you doing at night between eight and ten?

Are you scrolling on Tik Tok? Going down a YouTube rabbit hole, binge-watching Netflix? Or maybe worst of all, pornography?

Think back to the times twenty years ago. None of this was available. The best options were reading a book, newspaper, magazine, comic book, etc. Watching TV on a flat screen wasn’t available then. It looked like a massive box in front of your bed. People still tuned into the radio as their best form of entertainment. 

Now we have all the technological entertainment at our fingertips! The computer in our pocket has everything we could want and need. How much good is this bringing us before bed?

One-third of our lives are spent sleeping, that’s 33%. And you hear it everywhere, I’m tired, I didn’t get the best sleep last night, I go to bed too late. On and on and on.

It’s funny. Most people have an alarm for waking up but don’t have an alarm for when they go to bed. How much better would your sleep hygiene be if you practised this? 

When we go to the gym we warm up to get the most out of our workout. Yet we don’t warm down when we're about to go to sleep to get the most out of it? 

Before we closed our eyes we spend over an hour on the phone, scrolling, consuming useless content that has our brains overloaded with information it doesn’t know what to do with. You only found a kitchen hack that will save up an extra 5 seconds of cleaning up. Well worth it yeah?!

The answer to why you woke up groggy the next morning is what you did the night before. Unless a virus kicks in overnight and you wake up with a temperature, that’s the expectation, not the rule. 

Think about what you’re doing to your brain before you call it in for the day. 

That 33% spent sleeping directly affects the other 66% of your life. 

You know what damage you’re doing to yourself before you go to bed. Whatever it is, if it serves you well, keep it, if it’s disturbing your sleep, throw it away. 

Keep it simple. You’ll see the changes.

Until next time,

Brody