Always feel tired?
I’ve got two words for you…
Sleep matters 😴.
Way more than we give it credit for.
It affects everything…
- Your mindset and mood.
- Your happiness and positivity.
- How fit, strong and healthy you feel.
- Your weight, digestion and gut health.
- How well you learn and remember things.
- How you cope with and process things that happen to you.
- Your creativity, productivity and focus.
- Your relationship with yourself and others.
- How you feel about yourself and your life.
So, in today’s blog post, I’m sharing 5 ways to improve your sleep to get your energy, motivation and passion back.
You’ll learn the simple habits I follow for sustained energy all day — from the moment my alarm goes off until 9.30 pm — yes, really.
Plus:
- Why most of us don’t get enough sleep.
- What your phone can teach you about sleep!
- Need your coffee? Try these 2 drinks instead.
- The #1 mistake most women make every afternoon.
- 2 overlooked activities sabotaging your sleep (and a simple fix).
- 6 foods and drinks making you tired.
- Why I love 9 pm to 10 pm (hint: it makes me feel calm and peaceful).
- 2 reasons you never feel refreshed in the morning.
These practical rituals have taken me years to learn, so please use my experience as a shortcut to feeling your best, fast!
5 Ways To Improve Your Sleep & Stop Feeling So Tired
If you want to feel happier and healthier — and live your best life — you must give your mind and body chance to rest and rejuvenate every night.
So, use these 5 rituals to get a good night’s sleep:
(1) Prioritise Your Sleep
In a society rewarding busyness, never switching off and keeping going no matter what — it’s no wonder we don’t prioritise sleep. But prioritise we must!
Especially knowing less than 7 hours a night seriously impacts our happiness and health — mentally, emotionally and physically.
So, if you take just one thing from this post, make it this >>> your phone can’t work endlessly without recharging it — and neither can you!
Give yourself the gift of fully recharging YOUR battery every night by deciding right now to make 7 to 9 hours of sleep your priority.
(2) Drink Less Caffiene
This one was big for me because I LOVE COFFEE!
Nevertheless, when I learnt how much caffeine affects your sleep, I broke my habit! I now don’t have caffeinated drinks after 11 am (it stays in your system for 8-12 hours).
Instead, I drink caffeine-free teas — like Aldi’s peppermint (great for your digestion) and Rooibos Green Tea (full of antioxidants).
Are you thinking your 3 pm coffee doesn’t impact you because you fall asleep easily? If so, that might be true in terms of getting to sleep, but what it’s affecting is the quality of your sleep.
So, even if you’re getting 7 to 9 hours, they won’t be as beneficial as they could be. Which is why you never wake up feeling refreshed.
(3) Keep It Dark
When you wake up, you want your body clock to know it’s morning. So, turn on the lights!
In the evening, it’s the opposite — you need to tell your body clock it’s nighttime. So, an hour before going to bed, dim your lights.
Swap your overhead lights for lamps in your sitting room and bedroom, under cupboard lighting in your kitchen and shaving mirror light in your bathroom.
Also, dim your phone screen — or, even better, put your phone away for the night — and replace it with a good book like The Girl On A Train.
(4) Eat & Drink Better
What you eat affects how you perform in every area of life, including how well you sleep.
So, pay more attention to what you eat. Notice how different foods affect the time it takes to fall asleep and how you feel when you wake.
Common culprits for disturbed sleep are refined sugars in cakes and biscuits, refined carbs in processed white bread and pasta, and sugary drinks like hot chocolate and alcohol.
Dehydration and hunger also affect your sleep, so drink plenty of water during the day — and if you feel hungry before bed, grab a quick and easy healthy snack.
(5) Create A Bedtime Ritual
I love creating healthy habits I look forward to, which is exactly what I’ve done for my bedtime routine.
And, since I no longer expect my mind and body to go from 100 mph to 0 mph in minutes, I’ve created a bedtime routine to slow down and relax an hour or two before going to sleep.
Around 9 pm, I put my phone away and my PJs on! I get washed (this makes it much easier to go to bed later — because who wants to take off their make-up at 10.30 pm!), make camomile tea and have some dark chocolate. I watch an episode of a series like Fool Me Once or Friends, then head to bed to read.
Lastly, I make my bedroom as dark and cool as possible, which includes wearing an eye mask (best thing ever!) and turning the heating off an hour before bed.
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As someone interested in health and wellness, I’m sure you’ve heard some of these tips before.
Nevertheless, if you’re here, I’m guessing you want to look and feel better — so if any ritual above appeals to you, I suggest trying one at a time for a week to see what works for you and what doesn’t.
Want To Be The Best Version Of You?
As a smart, ambitious, and hard-working woman with a busy life and lots to do, I know how it feels to be tired all the time. And how much it impacts the way you look and feel, how much you get done, and what your evenings are like vs what you wish they were like!
But, I promise, it doesn’t have to be that way — with a few simple tweaks to your routine, you’ll feel better, fast.
Feeling full of energy and motivation wasn’t always the case for me, but by implementing wellbeing practices like those above — plus exercising consistently and learning how to manage my thoughts and feelings better — I now wake up feeling the best I’ve ever felt.
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YOU and your life are far too precious and important to feel tired, unmotivated and fatigued all the time.
So, give yourself the gift of more and better sleep — and watch how much happier and healthier you feel.
Becky x