I have been trying to make sleep a priority. This is not a beginning-of-the-year resolution. I’m just tired. It’s only been a couple of days but I already feel better. There seems to be a huge difference between 5 and 7 hours of sleep. For a long time, I have been telling myself that 5 hours of sleep is enough. It is not.
I am not the type of person that lies awake thinking about things. Falling asleep has never been a problem for me. When my head hits the pillow, I am out. The problem for me happens before my head gets anywhere close to the pillow. I have trouble allowing myself to go to bed if there are still tasks that need to be done on my list. For example, I needed to write a Daily Dispatch before bed last night. Writing a post is most often the last thing that I do before going to bed. It wasn’t easy but I shut everything down for the night and got some sleep. So, here I am, early on a Sunday morning, writing about sleep. Take a break, put it off until tomorrow, and get some sleep.