Amen and YES to improving our sleep, both in quality as well as duration. Science provides us a mostly all excellent means, in multiple ways, to take far better control and care of our minds and bodies throughout our lifetimes. Atomic Habits, James Clear, is an excellent guide to both recognizing, as well as correcting for poor sleep habits, as well as other less desirable ones. You know the list. Atomic is the operative word in Clear's title. Find out why. Thank you for this work you do Bill. Not a steady reader, but always find your work useful in some of life's corners. Finding a little more gratitude every day, and finding I have enough stuff is quite enough for me. Pity those living in greed. Peace will always elude them. Sleep on that! You do nice work Bill. Jim
I have found using an Apple Watch to be helpful. It focuses on regularity, duration and interruptions, giving you all those details along with a sleep score in the health app. Lot’s of other useful data that often correlate to your sleep scoring.
Bill, I'm glad you're finally making this decision for yourself. Use a fitness watch/app to set up your sleep metrics. It is extremely helpful for also seeing what effects the quality of your sleep.
Amen and YES to improving our sleep, both in quality as well as duration. Science provides us a mostly all excellent means, in multiple ways, to take far better control and care of our minds and bodies throughout our lifetimes. Atomic Habits, James Clear, is an excellent guide to both recognizing, as well as correcting for poor sleep habits, as well as other less desirable ones. You know the list. Atomic is the operative word in Clear's title. Find out why. Thank you for this work you do Bill. Not a steady reader, but always find your work useful in some of life's corners. Finding a little more gratitude every day, and finding I have enough stuff is quite enough for me. Pity those living in greed. Peace will always elude them. Sleep on that! You do nice work Bill. Jim
Does it matter if the 7-9 hours are, say, 1am to 8am? 12-8,9? If okay, then I am compliant. I'm only 81, so there's time to test this theory.
I have found using an Apple Watch to be helpful. It focuses on regularity, duration and interruptions, giving you all those details along with a sleep score in the health app. Lot’s of other useful data that often correlate to your sleep scoring.
Sleep #1 in my book. I don't sacrifice my sleep. It's just so important! and thanks for the reminder!
Bill, I'm glad you're finally making this decision for yourself. Use a fitness watch/app to set up your sleep metrics. It is extremely helpful for also seeing what effects the quality of your sleep.
Even when I don't set an alarm, the longest amount of sleep I get is 6 hours. My body won't sleep any longer than that. Believe me, I've tried.