Over-thinking, a game-changing sleep tip & a brilliant book recommendation.

Don't look at the time!

You know when you get up in the night and you automatically got to look at what time it is, praying that you've still got ages until you need to be up...

Then once you've seen what time it is you start doing all sorts of sums in your head about how much sleep you're still going to get...

Well all that thinking and calculating is exactly what you don't want to be doing if you then want to get back to sleep quickly .

The best thing you can do is avoid looking at the time completely.

Whether you've got 5 minutes or 5 hours until your alarm goes off is irrelevant if you're not aware of it.

Ignorance is bliss!

Just get back to sleep.

This is such an interesting book and really gets you thinking about the world we live in.

He begins by saying, "Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."

It includes incredible stories of people being evacuated from war torn countries then doing everything they could to return. They missed the camaraderie and community spirit that existed in the midst of war.

That rather than societies collapsing in war times, they unite. Suicide rates and other mental health problems have been shown to fall.

And other fascinating insights like when the Native American Indians captured Americans, once they were released, huge numbers of them then chose to go back and join the Indian Society.

An absolutely brilliant book, I would definitely recommend!