Last night as I was attempting to get to sleep early for once, my brain switched into overdrive.
All kinds of wonderful, easily implemented ideas came flooding in. I lay there both wanting desperately to fall asleep because I was just exhausted, and wanting to leap out of bed and scribble down all these ideas because I just knew they’d be gone by morning.
I stuck with option one, and still didn’t manage to fall asleep until nearly midnight. I should have gone with option two, because as expected here I sit the next day, with barely a glimmer of all those great ideas left in my brain. I know one was a great, simple idea for a post here, and another involved doing a podcast!
I used to, years ago, keep a pad and paper next to my bed to capture ideas that hit me as I was dozing off. Obviously I need to do that again. And I have a feeling, if I’d simply taking the time to put my thoughts on paper last night, I would have fallen asleep faster than I did, accomplishing both goals at once.
I’m going to go take a walk and see if I can recapture some of it, those thoughts must still be in there somewhere! Hmm, podcast…?
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I always find that the more desperate I am to fall asleep, the harder it is. I never sleep well when I know I have to get up extra early becaues I feel so much pressure to get to sleep RIGHT NOW.
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Well, here you are! I’ve been checking the *other* blog and wondered where you went. Then a light bulb came on…check the new site! BTDT on not being able to fall asleep. Definitely keep a pad and pen by the bed!
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