Tips to wake up energized and fulfilled

Hi

How’s holiday eating going? First off just wanted to give you a tiny push to keep making healthy eating decisions. Clean fruits and vegetables taste just as healthy if not better than pizzas and burgers. Keep going for the healthier options.

Moving on, let’s recall the sleep tips. Messaging you late so you can act on them faster.

If you’ve been saying you want better sleep all year but couldn’t find the time, now’s your chance to improve it.

Hubermanner, Do you want to wake up excited for your day? Do you wish you had time to ‘catch up’ on the sleep you lost throughout the year?

Here are the best ways to start from the sleep toolkit. I’ll make this as easy as possible for you. These will be tiny changes with big impacts. And I know it’s Christmas and you might be traveling.

I’m saying this because I traveled and my sleep is a mess. Here’s how I’m planning to fix my sleep, even in the craziest conditions.

Concept: The worst thing for sleep is not knowing what time it starts.

If I told you there’s an Eminem concert tomorrow but I didn’t tell you when it starts, can you plan for it?

Nope. It’s impossible. So if your body doesn’t know when it’s going to bed, you’ll lay there for hours in bed wondering what to do. Or you wake up at night because your brain can’t shut down.

Here are the tips to get out of that.

1. Before going to bed, spend 30 minutes preparing for sleep

A good morning starts on the night before.

At night:

Sit in the dark. Close the curtains. Make the room cold. Change to comfortable clothes. Listen to music in the background (not earbuds). Resist the urge to eat.

These are simple stuff. If you just have the time, you’ll do them.

2. No phones after 11 pm

It’s the holidays right now. So no one expects you to answer fast. And no crucial news typically comes out at this time.

Your phone tells your eyes not to sleep. It also steals your attention from sleep. Because you’re thinking about the next ding to reply to a text instead of thinking about sleep.

Get something else to distract you. Talk to a mockingbird, sing for the moment, clean out your closet, or become friends with the mooonster that’s under your bed :)

No but for real, read a book for entertainment or tidy up the place or plan for the next day of your trip.

3. Get up fast and try to see the sunrise

When you wake up in the morning, try to get out of bed ASAP. If your phone is already off, then this is easy.

There’s nothing there to distract you so you just prioritize getting light and having good sleep. (yes you can still get sunlight when it’s cloudy)

Pro tip if you struggle with this: put a wake-up alarm at max volume in a separate. You wouldn’t want to wake anybody else up or you’re annoyed by the noise, do you just get up. Then, the alarm reminds you to look at the light. It’s BJ Fogg calls the ‘cue’.

And that’s all.

It’s 10% effort for 90% results.

You’ll wake up feeling super comfy. You’re not anxious to check your phone. You get up calmly, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, and get some light.

Life is peaceful and you are fuelled without an energy drink. You look forward to the good time you will spend with yourself and your family.

Then you make yourself a cup of coffee and right when you put the mug on your lips to take sip, you remember you should delay it for 90 minutes 🙃

Hubermanner. Happy mornings are blissful. And you’re only a few steps away.

1. In the morning:

   Jump out of bed, move, and look at the sky. It’s okay to be bored.

2. At night, after having fun:

   Get 30 minutes of pre-sleep

And they’re easy when your phone is off because there’s nothing there to distract you.

Other than that, go do whatever you want.

So, here’s a wake-up call. Don’t just read this… do it. It takes a tiny shift for a huge difference.

So make the shift today. Read the two steps again and watch your sleep flourish.

Habit tips:

• Turn your phone off at 10 PM or as soon as you come back home. Don’t turn it on till 8 am the next day.

• if there’s noise, put on headphones and listen to music

• if you’re too active, listen to a podcast

• try to have dinner earlier

• when you stay up late, get up at your usual wake-up time

• Don’t sit at home all day