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Getting enough sleep is incredibly important — if you’ve ever gone through a day trying to caffeinate yourself and get by on many, many cups of coffee, you probably know how terrible it is. Except a vicious cycle continues — you drink a lot of coffee to get by, get your second wind in the early afternoon / evening and then stay up late because you have too much caffeine. As a result, you sleep late or not at all, and end up repeating the cycle the next day. Or even if you know not to drink too much caffeine, you feel absolutely terrible approximately 7 hours after you wake up (i.e., the afternoon lull) and find that you have to fight through that meeting trying not to pass out.
Where does a good night’s sleep come from? It comes from developing the right night time routine for yourself. I’m not the foremost expert in sleep but I can tell you what works for me (and I know that these practices will work for you too if you give them a shot).
Wear blue light blocking glasses
I wear glasses so I thought it would be particularly difficult to wear blue light blocking glasses that I see advertised through Twitch and other sites. I did manage to find blue light blocking glasses that clip to my existing glasses. When it turns 6 PM, I put on my blue light blocking glasses and then go about my normal day — whether it’s working…
