Today, I’ve 100% completed my habit tracker.
This includes:
Had a long night’s sleep.
100 decline pushups earlier in the day.
Only healthy food.
Spent time with my girlfriend, chilled.
Listened to like 30+ minutes of a podcast.
Got a good idea while listening to the podcast, wrote it down (to maybe start collecting some tips on longevity on top of diet and exercise).
Drank a protein shake.
Took the supplements.
Added a large part of the script to my video, gotta refine it though to make it more interesting and efficient.
Random positive task (contemplation).
Read (after video work).
Sleeping very well recently. I'm really close to my dream bed time and I'm going to sleep & waking up at the same time every day (stabilizes circadian rhythm, I feel sleepy exactly when it's the right time).
Another pro tip I learned is to not do any unnecessary activities in the bed.
Like using the phone or even reading. If you don't do anything besides sleep in bed, the subconscious gets used to it and associates the bed with sleep, making it really easy to fall asleep.
I only noticed that when I lost it.
I was using my laptop a lot while in bed and it made it incredibly hard to fall asleep when I actually wanted to (even if other activities like sitting on my laptop were in the morning (this rules out the possibility of light shifting the internal clock)).
I was only able to fix it after a week of living somewhere else and then going back somehow made my mind do a reset and I could fall asleep super fast again.
Last thing I learned is to basically avoid screens/lights after sunset. One can try doing the magical '1 hour before bed' but I always had to be more strict to make it work.
The body deduces what time of the day it is using the unconscious information it gets. To sum up everything. Two very practical ways to mess up your sleep are 1. shine blue/white artificial artificial light at your face with high intensity
Spend a lot of time in bed so your mind forgets it's supposed to sleep there
I have to be more careful though because I'm very subtly moving towards later bed times. Maybe some dozen minutes per day but I can kinda see it happening.
Sometimes it's earlier sometimes later but I need to remember my perfect bed time and discipline myself even further to move closer to it, not further.
Terracore
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