How to Sleep Well and Wake Up Energized: 6 Habits

How to sleep well and wake up with energy every day.

Here we have Eric, who turns off his alarm one, two, three times before getting up.

Still half asleep, he reaches out, grabs his phone and stays in bed checking messages without getting out of bed.

It’s 7:15 a.m., and he’s already running late.

He gets up in a hurry, changes as fast as he can and leaves the house without breakfast.

In the afternoon, he comes home from work exhausted and to get through the rest of the day, he pours himself a cup of coffee.

When his wife gets home, they try to talk, but since they’re still carrying an argument from days ago, they end up fighting again.

So Eric shuts himself in the room and puts on a movie.

At 9:00 p.m., he gets hungry. He goes to the kitchen, heats up a frozen pizza, then takes a shower and gets into bed.

But instead of sleeping, He keeps staring at his phone, scrolling through social media.

Sometimes he falls asleep at 11:00 p.m., other times at 1:00 a.m.

And as you can imagine, the next day, he wakes up exhausted all over again.

His friend Matías starts the day very differently.

He puts his alarm far from the bed and when it rings, he gets up right away.

No social media or coffee. He goes straight to the kitchen and drinks water to get his day started.

Then he showers, has breakfast, and is ready to go to work.

If he argues with his wife in the afternoon, he tries to resolve it before the day is over.

“I can't rest knowing something is wrong,” he often says.

He eats a light dinner and after 8:00 p.m., he turns off the bright lights and replaces his phone with a book.

He always goes to bed at the same time, 10:00 p.m.

And so he won't forget, he sets an alarm for half an hour beforehand.

And most importantly, he never uses the bed to watch shows, eat, or work.

The bed is for sleeping and sharing with his wife.

That morning, when they run into each other on their way to work, Eric asks Matías curiously: “How do you manage to leave home in the morning with so much energy?”

Matías smiles: “It’s because of the habits I have.

Here are a few tricks I use to wake up with energy every day.

One, I don’t snooze my alarm, I get up as soon as it goes off.

Two, I don’t use screens before bed. Three, I don’t eat a heavy dinner or drink coffee in the afternoon.

Four, I don’t go to bed if I’m on bad terms with someone.

Five, I use the bed only for sleeping. And six, I go to bed and get up at the same time every day.

Remember one thing, Eric, sleeping well doesn’t start when you turn off the light, it starts when you get up.”

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