Have you asked yourself why do you have trouble sleeping through the night even if you can fall asleep so easily? You always fall asleep so quickly that you can’t even remember turning off the television, yet you still wake up during the night. Why? Can you control the causative factors that determine whether it will be a good nights’ sleep or a restless one?
Sometimes physical substances like caffeine in the late afternoon could be the cause of your restless sleep or insomnia. But sleeplessness could also be triggered due to our emotional issues. Knowing the things that keep you from sleeping is your first step towards achieving a peaceful sleep at night. If you can’t cut back on your caffeine intake, then let’s find a simple and attainable solution for your emotional concerns and day to day life stresses.
Most of the time the reason for your sleeplessness is due to unresolved issues occurring throughout the day. During the day great success might have kept you on moving tasks around on your to-do list but while asleep, you subconsciously search for solutions to your problems and figure out where they should go. This begs the question of how one puts subconscious worries into consciousness before falling asleep.
We all believe that we are great multi-taskers but the truth is that our tiny little brain is unable to cope up and manage all the information we attempt to store in it. And without a good managing system, our mind continuously sorts through the information we store by constantly recalling it. While our brain is busy recalling the information, we are unable to fully concentrate on the other tasks at hand. And as we take a rest and go to sleep, our brain still strives to continuously retain the information.
Create a system for your job and for your life as well. Through this you’ll be able to be more productive in managing your daily tasks, you’ll move through your day efficiently, and most of all feeling more settled as each day ends. Once this system is integrated into your daily activities, you’ll wake up to a fresh morning and each night will feel more complete without the need to take unfinished business with you to bed.
Opening Procedures. This process will help you to start each day more organized and productive.
- List the things that you will do first.
- Choose when you should send and return emails and calls.
- List the things from the previous day that should be done.
- List the approximate time needed to complete a task.
- Leave open blocks of time for those unexpected tasks and schedule your workout or down time too.
Closing Procedures. This process will allow your mind to rest at night, without the need to recall your important tasks continuously.
- Prepare tomorrow’s list.
- Transfer the day’s incomplete tasks to tomorrow’s list.
- Rearrange your weekly tasks.
- Check your emails and arrange them if needed.
Lists are very helpful since it assists you in remembering tasks that needs to be done. However, having a more organized list is even more effective! A very comprehensive list that fills an entire page overwhelms your brain and sticky notes often end up in random places.But by organizing the list by hour, day and or by week, you can look at each task individually rather than being overwhelmed with all the tasks needed to be done.
Thus, decrease your caffeine intake especially in the late afternoon and look at your new system as a key to a more organized day and a good night sleep. Say goodbye to your insomnia with this simple solutions!
