Better sleeping patterns help create more time.

Being a grownup adult is not as simple as we thought when we were kids; we’ve got responsibilities for which we’ve to buy enough time. One way of buying your time is by creating it.

No, you don’t have to pay a monetary value for buying time. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing to buy time more efficiently. One thing to change in your life is your sleeping schedule.

I’ve seen people striving hard to manage time, and I always tell them to create it instead of having a fulfilled life. The only point I maintain is to fix your sleeping schedule.

Once you have organized your sleeping schedule, you’ll eventually start creating more time.

I Sleep a Little Lesser

My sleeping schedule is simple to follow. I wake up at around 4:30 A.M and spend a half-hour in complimentary prayers. No, I don’t enjoy flexing, but telling you how to transform your sleeping schedule into a better one.

Once I’m done praying, I either stay awake or sleep for another hour and wake up again to lead morning obligatory congregation prayer at home and read some books.

These activities take around an hour, after which I turn on my laptop and start working on my articles.

Sometimes, I have other work to complete, so I spend the morning completing all my dues.

I know I am not wealthy yet, but I’m on it. Earning anything takes time. Since I’ve started sleeping early and getting up early, I’ve changed a lot from the inside. Now I feel more relaxed and fulfilled. My spirituality is reaching another level.

If I’m exhausted or not feeling well, I go to sleep again for another hour and then do my breakfast around 10 right after the morning shower and workout.

Since this is all about my sleeping routine, I’d have to cut off the other activities and jump to when I sleep next.

Experts say that napping after lunch or during the afternoon has some health benefits, which I regret not doing at all. My mother and paternal grandparents used to take afternoon naps, but since my dad, my brother, and I have occupied ourselves with other stuff, we couldn’t have time to nap.

As you would be curious about when I sleep next, I try my best to go to bed by 10 P.M. But somehow, I can’t do it until 11 P.M. However, I fall asleep anywhere comfortably and immediately. When it’s hard to fall asleep, I recite a few prayers that instantly help me fall asleep.

This cycle keeps on repeating every day like an infinite loop, and I’m used to it. I feel way more active than I used to be years ago.

The Practical Examples

Have a look at two different scenarios of sleeping schedules and figure out the differentiated outcomes they create for us.

Scenario # 1:

A guy, P, works 9–5 in an IT office. He leaves his home around 8 A.M to reach by 9 at the office. And when he leaves his office at 5 in the evening, he takes an hour to get home.

After coming back home, he spends time at dinner, watching tv, surfing the internet, and playing video games to relax his mind. Instead, he gets the opposite result.

As soon as he’s done with all those activities — a total waste of time — he goes to bed and fights hard to sleep.

It’d take an hour or more for him to fall asleep because of constant exposure to electronic devices that had left a negative impact on his mind.

Wellness Now reports that mental and physical strains are proportional to spending a tremendous amount of time in front of electronic screens. But, P can’t figure out why he struggles to fall asleep at night.

Now, instead of waking up early in the morning, he gets up at 7 and starts preparing to leave for his office. It’s a lack of sleep, no?

Scenario # 2:

Another guy, X, P’s colleague, also has the same office hours as P has. X also spends his office time the same way as P does, except for lunchtime, and also leaves one hour earlier from home to reach his office by 9. Likewise, when he gets back home from the office.

Instead of indulging in leisure activities, X makes his dinner and sleeps by 9. He doesn’t struggle with immediately falling asleep as P does. I’ll tell you why.

X sleeps for only 7 hours and gets up at 4 in the morning. He has four extra hours to spend mindfully. The activities he indulges himself include morning workouts and reading self-help and motivational books. These two activities must take him a maximum of two hours.

He still has two hours left. He devotes the remaining time to journalizing, future planning, and office preparation.

X gets a lunch break for an hour, which he uses in the following way:

• 20-minute nap,
• 10 minutes lunch,
• and 30 minutes reading self-help books.

Yet, he doesn’t waste his time in leisure activities.

P isn’t full of energy when he wakes up in the morning because he wastes four precious hours doing unnecessary activities and influences himself by surfing through social media and watching movies.

He takes all the influential pressure from there and contemplates why he isn’t prosperous as the people on the internet and television are shown. That contemplation takes his precious hours during sleep time, and he couldn’t sleep well.

P isn’t aware of the struggles behind the success of the social media influencers and couldn’t even acknowledge that until he realizes everything takes a lot of hustle.

The Final Takeaway

It’s not so easy to sleep instantly for some people. The reason might be that they engage in unnecessary activities, like watching back-to-back movies and TV shows for hours. Wouldn’t that affect your mind?

For others, like me, getting a prompt sleep is a blessing, but we must sacrifice our interests for a better future. We don’t waste our time watching movies and surfing through social media.

Why not you follow a similar sleeping schedule as I do? If I can witness a spiritual and mental change, why can’t you?

I’ve also presented you with two different scenarios of P and X to determine who’s likely to be more successful in life. It’s, of course, X because he creates his time and uses it in mindful activities that lead him to a fulfilled life.

I’d suggest that you follow X’s schedule to witness promising results.

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