How To Recover From A Bad Night’s Sleep

The Maximal Life

Consider how your routine can suffer a setback due to something simple such as one red eye flight, anoddly timed conference or just an unusually long day. Your well settled day can get disrupted. Suddenlytime management is difficult, you feel groggy in the middle of the day, tired for no reason!

According to statistics, about 40% of Americans don’t get enough sleep at night and as many as 44%between age 30 and 49 sleep less than six hours in a day. This hampers your personal success, cognitivefunction, energy levels and ups disease risk.

Here are a few simple tasks for how do you bounce back from short term sleep deprivation.

Resist the urge to hit ‘snooze’ after a late night. Get out of bed and take a cool shower to really wake up.Drink some waterto rehydrate. Don’t miss your workout if that is a part of your morning routine.Remember to eat a proper, nutrient rich breakfast to stimulate the brain and offer sustained energy. Getsome sunlight to send the wakeup message to the body and brain.

Begin with the most important tasks while you are fresh. Instead of coffee, sip on green tea or an herbalconcoction such as Ashwagandha, which supports the metabolism and acts as a tonic. If you feel sleepy inthe afternoon restrict the nap to no longer thana 20-minute power nap.

A Maximal Life isn’t about sprinting or short spurts of activity; it is about a steady speed that can remainconstant over time–it’s about developing the endurance for a marathon.