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Only Get Into Bed When You Start to Feel Sleepy

Ever lie in your bed the second you put on your PJs to then just lie there and aimlessly scroll through TikTok?

Murray said that if you're the type to feel fully awake hours before you want to sleep, avoid climbing into bed.

This one was pretty hard for me. A lot of times when I get home, I feel pretty tired, then after my bedtime routine I'm ready to climb into bed. Once I'm in bed, my mind stays on for hours, so it's like my body tricks me into climbing on my memory-foam mattress. But once I'm there, I'm wide awake.

I was able to make this one work for me by combining it with the power-down hour (slide two) so that I would do a bunch of pre-bed activities until it made me sleepy enough to do my final bedtime routine, get in bed, and go to sleep.

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