Day 9: 30 days – get 8 hours of sleep

Today has been day 9 of my challenge to get 8 hours of sleep for 30 days straight.

Every day I’ll share my FitBit Surge sleep data.

Aside from that, I want to document how I’m doing in terms of changing my habits:

  • No more screens, from 1 hour before bedtime.
  • Go for a 15 minute walk during the day.
  • No coffee after noon.
  • Use my thoughts to get to a place of gratitude before I go to sleep and when I wake up.

Day 9: 7hrs 39min

I failed to get 8 hours of sleep.

I also woke up in the middle of the night, as you can see by the blue and pink bars in the middle of my sleep chart. I remember as I was looking for my covers and was bothered by a mosquito.

I went out to walk outside at 10:30PM after writing yesterdays blog post and took a little longer than I should to have gotten 8 hours of sleep.

fitbit sleep data day 9

No more screens, 1 hour before bedtime

Goal reached?

Aaah, no I have to be honest. I’m very strict. I was writing yesterdays blogpost late at night and only closed my laptop at 10:25PM I think. I went to bed at 11:10 so: almost, but no.

I did go out for a nice slow jog and a walk after that though.

I sat down at the water for a couple of minutes just trying to enjoy the calmness and focussing on breathing right.

Go for a 15 minute walk

Goal reached?

No. I skipped my walk because I was in a hurry to get to a client meeting.

I told myself I was too busy to be able to go out for a walk.

I was still sending out emails, the minute before I left so I I felt like I really had no time.

I believe it is a matter of planning and setting boundaries, but sometimes I’m not doing that right.

fitbit step data day 9

How was it?

So the usual walking time was filled with driving to a client so it was a totally different experience. I didn’t notice that I was not walking because my whole lunch routine was different this day.

No coffee after noon

Goal reached?

Yes.

How was it?

 

Good, I only got an espresso at the train station in the early morning. Hmmmmm 🙂

Be in a place of gratitude

Goal reached?

 

(See yesterday, day 8 :p)

How was it?

(See day 8)

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I document my journey to living a free life. I share the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that journey with you. Because I believe we need less guru's and more authenticity in the world.