Being data geek, I love collecting it from my personal life. Recently, I start tracking each hour how I spend it daily. And of course, graphing the data:
I don’t think I sleep a lot. Average during weekdays is 7 hours. But I still want to cut down on my sleep. The first search on Google leads to this article. Unfortunately, this article is about modafinil, a prescribtion drug for nacrolepsy. It seems like this drug may work wonders without too many side effects but I was looking for more natural way of sleeping less.
Second search result has more natural recommendations. Basically, it recommends increasing your quality of sleep and slowly waking up early each day. good recommendation but too hard for me to implement especially with my on call schedule.
Finally, I like this guys recommendation. he basically says instead of having a fixed bed time, which I do, have a flexible time. Just go to bed when you feel sleepy. Instead have a fixed wake up time, which I do have but I over sleep a lot. So you wake up at same time every day no matter what.
Well this week I will try this approach and see how it goes.
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So how is this working out for you? That is if you’ve been honest enough to actually wake up at the same time each morning
haha waking up at same time is really hard, especially on holidays, but I did manage to wake up at 7 every morning for a week before holidays. I think I will be able to do it next week once more. Thanks for you comment.