Today has been day 2 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 2: 8hrs 17min
I reached my goal!
Sidenote: I must admit: I snoozed from 7 to like 7:20 in the morning. I know! It’s horrible.
No more screens, 1 hour before bedtime
Goal reached?
Yes. But, yesterday, it was a little more difficult.
Why?
“I need to do more work!”
I was feeling the need to do just a little bit more work that night.
“Oh but I really need to get this proposal out of the way, TONIGHT!”.
Do I?
Do I really?
I closed down my laptop, an hour before bedtime and went outside.
Since I had this strange experience with leaving my phone off the last hour before bed the first time, it was a lot easier for me this time. I had already explained I’m doing this 30 day sleep challenge and how it has been for me, so I was less urged to check my phone.
However, when walking outside, a question popped into my head and I reached for my phone while I thought: “Oh, let me Google that”.
That’s why I don’t even have the phone on me anymore, just to make it easier.
Go for a 15 minute walk
Goal reached?
Yes. I walked for 15 minutes during lunch break at work with some colleagues.
How was it?
Pretty easy. The weather was good and we had a new group of people to keep it interesting.
No coffee after noon
Goal reached?
Yes. No coffee was had that day.
How was it?
Easy peasy.
Be in a place of gratitude
Goal reached?
No.
How was it?
Super difficult.
There’s already a big red flashy arrow pointing to this “habit” that’s indicating: this needs some work.
I mean, it’s one thing to be consciously guiding your thoughts into a positive direction.
But it’s a whole other level to really feel that gratefulness in you.
To really be full of gratitude and emanating that.
I mean, we have all had it, some more consciously than others. But we’ve all had a moment where you’re like completely at ease and happy with the way things are right now and you are just glowing.
There’s obviously so much more needed to reach a place like that, but starting with consciously guiding your thoughts to positive things is a good start.
Especially if you never took the time to actively think about this for several minutes/half an hour/an hour.
But this is obviously the most difficult one.
And maybe not surprisingly, the one that yields the most benefits 🙂
Because it’s hard to argue there’s a better feeling than this state of gratitude.
You know, where you’re just smiling, for no apparent reason…
