Practical tactics for better sleep

Some practical tactics for better sleep

We talk about sleep pretty regularly because it's important to just about everything in life. Sleep and recovery impact how we feel, how we perform, how we interact with family and friends, and our overall health. Getting enough quality and quantity of sleep is a life hack that we all have access to, and it's completely legal.

The problem that I've encountered with sleep recommendations is that they often don't work with a real life schedule of family, job, friends, and other commitments. The theory often sounds good, but the implementation is difficult or requires significant scaling back of what I do daily. Can anyone else relate to that?

Doc Parsley and sleep science

Dr. Kirk Parsley was recently on The Ready State podcast with Kelly and Juliet Starrett. "Doc" Parsley completed SEAL training as a teenager and went on to serve as an active duty member of West Coast SEAL Teams for several years. Following his time on the Teams, he attended medical school and eventually found his way back to the Teams as a Team Doctor. During his time with the Teams as a doctor, he discovered some amazing things about sleep that we can all use to help us live better, feel better, and do better.

Do this one thing for sure

Follow this link to the podcast episode page and download the Stressless Sleep Guide from Doc Parsley. It's seven simple pages that you can scan in just a couple of minutes. The main things I like from this guide...

• Set a realistic go to bed time and wake up time.
• Don't stress if you don't fall asleep immediately; you can be nearly as effective by using the time in bed to pray, meditate, do breath work, etc.
• Use the "To Do" and "To Worry" lists.

Now that you have the Stressless Sleep Guide, you have permission to not fall asleep immediately, and you have a strategy to still make the most of your sleep time even if you're not actually asleep. Implement this for the next week and see what a difference it makes.

Do this one more thing to really lock it in

Want to take this one step farther? Listen to the podcast with Doc Parsley. It's eye-opening. The podcast is 1 hour and 22 minutes. I normally don't listen to longer podcasts like that, but I was hooked from the first few minutes. There's a ton of value in it, and it's well worth the time investment.

Did you know...

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