When we want to sleep, but put it off, it carries a feeling of frustration. There can be many reasons for this. We might convince ourselves to stay up late and finish things for work, or to prepare for an important event, or even finish up an assignment or project for a class.
Sometimes when this happens, it’s when we need sleep the most. It’s as if these things are conspiring against us, keeping us from having a good night’s rest.
Couldn’t they wait until tomorrow? Couldn’t we tell ourselves that? Even though we might, we don’t take our own advice. Instead, we stay up for hours working on whatever needs to be done until it’s finished. By that point, it’s 1 or 2 in the morning. If we’re lucky, we’ll get 5 or 6 hours of sleep. Not enough to be fully rested for work the next day.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to hold off on what needs to be done. Get it done tomorrow so that we can get some rest. Or we can wake up early to work on it (although this is easier said than done). Or we should start getting on a regular sleep schedule, and make everything else work around that.
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