Improving your sleep is an extremely powerful way of improving every aspect of your life. Many of the benefits are very obvious and well known such as having more energy, improved body composition and better mood. Others are a little more obscure, like improved learning ability.

Many people think that improving your sleep relates to the actions you make right before you go to bed. The truth is that for most, it is much too late and all the changes you make will seem ineffective. We are actually going to start with changes you can make in the morning which will improve your sleep for the coming night. The earlier we can get things started, the more effective we will be at improving your sleep. Sleep isn’t something we can shock into adapting to. We need to coax our bodies and our natural rhythms into slow steady change.

I like to use the analogy of a candle. At the end of the day, we want our candle to be burnt all the way down to the base. It’s tough to make a candle burn faster, so the easiest way to have our candle burn to the base is to get things started as early as possible in the day.

My goal for you in this section is simple. I want to you to make enough changes so that we can satisfy 3 guidelines. Falling asleep quickly and easily, stay asleep throughout the night and you wake up feeling refreshed.