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How a paper planner could help you get a better night’s sleep
In a digital world, there is still a place for analogue — especially when it comes to decluttering the mind.
We’re all pretty obsessed with sleep. How much we’re getting, how much other people are getting, how little we can manage on.
However, that’s understandable when you think of the impact a lack of sleep has on us. For those who really struggle to drop off, or who wake up at 4am and then can’t nod off again for hours, it’s really no laughing matter. Not only can it leave us irritable and not really ourselves, but it might even be dangerous if we’re affected to the extent that our reaction times are reduced when we have to drive or operate heavy machinery.
The National Institutes of Health estimates that around 30 per cent of the general population has trouble with sleep disruption, which means there are likely to be millions of people worldwide lying awake on any given night, wishing they could do something to get them off to sleep.
One of the most-cited reasons for sleeplessness is worrying about the never-ending list of tasks you’ve got to do. In our always-connected world, it can feel as though we’re always under pressure to be doing something, and that’s not conducive to restful…
