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If you know me you know I love to talk — and I do it a lot. The only thing I do more than that is... think! On a serious note there are millions of thoughts revolving in my head (I’ll dedicate another post to that later) and I tend to keep them in my head rather than ‘offload’ into a notepad or a Notion-like app. On top of that I am more of an owl person, meaning I wake up later and am more active and productive later in the day.

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What this results in is spending in average 0.5-1.5 hours every night thinking about different things before falling asleep.

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What not having enough sleep results in is permanent tiredness, worse physical shape and fitness results (which leads to gaining extra weight), increased stress and irritability and a whole bunch of negative consequences.

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To cut a long story short sleep is important and vital in your overall mental and physical health.

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Sleep awareness

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People are different (night owls vs. early birds) and actually can change over time. Some constraints like early workout or teething of a baby can also change sleep patterns. In order to become aware of your sleep routines and patterns it makes sense to introduce tracking which can come in different shapes and forms:

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Introducing tracking gives you insights into how you’re sleeping. So the next step is to act upon the results.

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What affects your sleep?

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Having the sleep data in front of you puts you in control — now you can analyze which activities affect your sleep quality and tweak your lifestyle to improve your sleep. Here are the most common reasons for sleep problems and ways to address those:

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Tips and tools to improve sleep

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These are the tips I've collected over time from various resources, conversations and personal experience. Some of them might work for you and some of them won't — key is to finding something that works for you and something that'll stick.

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My conclusion — Take One

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I've had several sporadic attempts to monitor, analyze and improve my sleep which kind of resulted in some enhancements I've taken up like avoiding using my phone or laptop before sleep, reading physical books, not drinking coffee after 3pm. Key here is some.

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With the arrival of the baby sleep patterns change, sleep becomes unpredictable and frankly you're feeling accumulated exhaustion every day.

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Don’t take sleep for granted! Be intentional about sleep.

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Having said this my plan is to start a journey of improving my sleep and researching more into the topic. Stay tuned if you'd like to join me on this fun ride! We'll kick off with the resources below 👇

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Resources

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