How To Be More Productive In The Morning

Are you tired in the morning, even when you have gotten 8 hours of sleep?

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Have you experienced that you couldn’t pull yourself out of bed in the morning? We all love to sleep, but when it comes to waking up fresh, it’s hard. Let me explain it simply. You sleep 8 hours or how much your body needs, but in the morning you are tired, very tired. There is a solution.

The 90-Minute Sleep/Brain Cycle

Well, every night our brain sleeps in 90-minute cycles, and if you want to be fresh when you wake up, this method could help you. I’m not saying that you can sleep for 3 hours and feel perfect, but this hack works for a majority of people. If you want to wake up at 8:00 AM you just need to count back in 90-minute blocks. It will leave you fresh and productive in the morning. Trust me, it works (for me)!

…But if this is not working for you, then you can try another method that also helps a lot of people get to work early (this method is a little more precise). In this method, you can sleep whenever you like, but you need to wake up 90 minutes before the actual time that you want to wake up and then fall asleep again. So, if you want to wake up at 8:00 AM you need to set an alarm for 6:30 AM and 8:00 AM. It’s the same principle, but just a little more precise.

The Deep Explanation

The goal of the 90-minute sleep cycle is to wake up at the end of a 90-minute cycle. This will give you a burst of energy and productivity.

There is a dreaming period that occurs every 90 minutes when you are sleeping. The dream time is also called rapid eye movement or REM. You are actually waking up for a little moment every 90 minutes in your sleep, but you just don’t remember it when you wake up. Pretty weird to think about. Every cycle can be different, some can be deep and some can be less deep.

Recommendations And My Experience

I have used this method for some time now, and it really helped with getting me up in the morning. Remember that you will not be the master of the sleep cycle the first night. It takes practice, but in the end, it’s all worth it. I personally use the app Slumber, but I have also heard of other good apps that focus on meditation and sleeping, like Peak Sleep. As I said, it will probably not work for everyone and every time, but it will help a lot, and I mean a lot!

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