My Best Tips for a Great Night of Sleep

People who say, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” will reach their destination sooner rather than later. I’m not here to beat you over the head with boring statistics. This is not a knowledge problem for most people. You’ve had great nights of sleep when you woke up full of energy and ready to have a fantastic day. You’ve also had terrible nights of sleep when you can’t stop hitting that snooze button, and even coffee barely helps. You know what great rest feels like, so why aren’t you getting more of it?

It’s Sleep Awareness Week, and if you live in a country in the northern hemisphere that observes Daylight Saving Time (DST), you just had to spring forward an hour. The people who started setting clocks ahead one minute per day 60 days ago are already fully adjusted. How did you adjust?

Unless you have some medical condition interfering with your sleep, the quality of your sleep is mainly in your control. If I had to boil it down to a simple phrase: “You gotta go to bed!” If you want to get up earlier, go to bed earlier.

The day doesn’t start when you wake up in the morning. The day starts when you go to bed the night before. — Satchin Panda, PhD

What authority do I have to talk to you about sleep? I’m not a licensed sleep doctor or credentialed. Here’s one qualification — a recent Oura ring score.