63 Magazine - Issue 4

Sleeping
Made
Easier
Organizers like you just don’t get enough
sleep. It’s an unfortunate reality that many
of us are trying to change. You’ll be a better
organizer if you’re well rested—increasing
your energy, your power to focus and make
smart decisions, your ability to regulate and
control your emotions and much more. Read
about why sleep is so important and how
you can increase your opportunities for sleep
here.
While we advocate for your right to proper
sleep and while you do your best to get as
much sleep as possible, we know there are
times during your organizing career that
a full night’s rest isn’t possible for weeks
on end, and that can really begin to wear
on you. We also know that a groggy wake
up with an hour of snoozing can ruin your
whole day.
Sometimes, you don’t have any control over
how much sleep you get, but you can control
how you wake up. Download an app like
Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock to use your own
body’s sleep cycles to your advantage.
While you sleep, you go through cycles of
sleep states, starting in a light sleep followed
by a deep sleep and a dream sleep. Each cycle
takes about 90 minutes and when you wake
up during this cycle can vastly change how
rested you feel.
Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock wakes you up
during light sleep to help you feel like you’re
waking up naturally rested without an alarm
clock. Of course you would probably sleep
much longer without an alarm, so Sleep
Cycle Alarm Clock wakes you up within
a half hour of the time you set. This way,
you’ll wake up on time to get working, but
you won’t feel jolted awake and crankily
miserable all morning (well, at least not from
how you wake up).
Try this alarm clock (or one like it) to see if
shifting how you wake up can give you more
of the energy you desperately need to get
through the long hours of organizing. Good
luck and let us know what you think! Δ