We don’t do it enough, or at least don’t do enough of it. Study after study points it out, but you and I? We don’t need studies to tell us that we’re all just a bit too tired lately and we’re not getting nearly enough z’s, despite those extra 18 minutes we’ve added nightly.

And yet, we still don’t do it.

“Early to bed and early to rise” is just a quaint saying from the past when people didn’t have things like smartphones and news feeds to keep up with and lights and screens available 24/7, and often we’re on them 24/7.

Even our kids are missing out on sleep. Studies show that more teens are sleeping less and screen-timing more and stress related everything is on the rise and it seems like there’s a simple solution – get more rest.

But we don’t do it.

Resting can feel a whole lot like shirking when you think that you have to keep up with the Jones’s and the Instagram feed.

Even a restful vacation at the beach, if you’re lucky enough to be able to get it, isn’t nearly as restful as it should be with most of us lugging our laptops out to the sand to sneak in a bit of work because, yeah, work is where it’s at.

Consuming media and counting likes and counting comments becomes constant.

We’re so busy consuming that we can’t quite see that it’s consuming us.

So busy being busy that we’re too tired to really be effective.

The solution is really simple. Solutions are usually like that. Rarely complicated but rarely easy. So yeah, simple-ish.

Tuckered out people need to be tucked in.

Sleep restores cells and minds and yeah, even hearts.

The fact is, the one single, simple-ish thing that you can do today that will have an immediate effect on your tomorrow is to turn off the screen and turn off the light just a bit earlier and tuck in and allow yourself to sink into the pillows and give yourself the gift of a full night’s sleep.

Yeah, allow yourself. This, I think, is where a lot of us with the best of intentions sort of get derailed.

Believe me, I get it. Life is busy, busy, busy and there is so much to do and a lot of what we do is stuff we really want to do.

And I believe that you can do it all, just not all at the same time.

So yeah, one thing. One simple-ish thing you can do today to make tomorrow better.

If you’ll allow yourself.

~xo,
LuAnne