Sleep makeover

Today I woke to yet another sleep score in the 60% range, feeling groggy, unrested, grumpy, and wondering why I slept so late at 10:45pm. I was of course, doomscrolling on the phone waaay past bedtime.

This needs to stop.

My sleep’s all over the place, and I’ve either been too tired, too stressed or too busy to do anything about it, fueling a vicious cycle of poor sleep, poor coping, poor bedtime sleep hygiene, which then results poorer sleep, poorer coping… you get the picture.

I need a sleep makeover.

I need to get back to the sleep routines where I woke up to 90+% sleep scores, feeling rested and ready. I’ve done it before. I know how to do it:

• last coffee at lunchtime
• topping back up my magnesium levels
• active movement throughout the day
• light or no dinner
• no phone screens after dinner
• bedtime at 9:30pm latest
• meditate before sleep
• keeping thermal comfort (20ºC)

So it’s not a lack of knowledge but a lack of motivation. That’s the problem with slumps – they suck the life and energy out of you and all the powerful habits that were easy before becomes hard now.

That’s the only reason sleep is an infinite game. The infinite part isn’t that the knowledge gets forgotten but life throws seasons at you where you might struggle with time, effort or discipline.

Those are the real challenges, and I have no ready answers on how to solve it, other than (try to) resolve the root issues, and after due diligence is done, we just have to wait it out till motivation returns.

Maybe the acknowledgement “This needs to stop” is the signal I need that it’s now returned, or at least, returning…