get into a regular sleeping pattern

during the next 21 days.
Last few days have been good in that I’ve woken up early. However, I’ve still had trouble going to sleep. Saturday night I slept for 5 hours, Sunday 4 hours and last night 7 hours. 7 hours is pretty ok, I’m actually not sure how much sleep I need. I slept in until 7am though. I want to get into a habit of waking up at 6am the latest every morning so that when I start going to yoga, I won’t struggle to adjust to the rhythm.

Last night went to bed at 10pm and fell asleep almost immediately. Woke up at 5.30am today, wasn’t too difficult at all. That’s 7h 30mins sleep.

Slowly, I’m getting to a rhythm that I like, going to bed early and getting up very early. Once I managed to wake up early a couple of times, I remembered how much I like that time alone in the morning, doing yoga and sitting down for a while.
I haven’t really made note of what time I go to bed, but I think I should, just to see how I feel the next day and how much sleep I need. Running really seems to take it out of me, so I’m usually quite tired in the mornings after the I’ve gone running in the evening, though once I wake up, I seem to be ok.

Last night, I didn’t get to sleep until some time between 11pm and 12am and then I was woken up by a noise at around 1am and it took me a while to get back to sleep. I still got up at 5.30/5.45am and did yoga. I feel quite tired now, but I’m glad I got up early despite not having had the best night of sleep. This will help me get into a regular pattern.

I really must try to get to bed, and to sleep, early. I haven’t had much sleep in the last couple of nights and I feel tired now. The problem is that I’ve been on such a high that I just don’t want to go to bed! Quite often I also feel tired around 8 o’clock or so, but then couple of hours later, I’m not tired anymore.
I’m going back to work tomorrow (yawn!) and would like to continue feeling high and energetic, but that’s not going to happen if I don’t sleep well. I would like to wake up early enough to do yoga in the morning, sit down for breakfast, even journal a little and not feel that I have to rush. To be able to enjoy my mornings, I need to be in bed with lights out by about 10pm. I think I need to come up with a good way to wind down in the evenings.

After experimenting with my sleeping habits, I finally feel I`ve managed to find a pattern that works perfect for me:) At first, it seemed impossible to find ANY kind of solution but now it`s my second nature to give myself a reasonable amount of sleep without hesitation:)

Well, it`s not always 9 hours since sometimes I fall asleep a bit later but still – it`s a progress;P It is ruined a bit during weekends (especially Fridays) but you can`t always be perfect, can you?;P

So I ended up staying up all night and going to work and helping my dad out with some construction… ended up staying up until around 8 that night and when I passed out I woke up at like 6am. Since then I’ve been on a “10pm-6am” schedule.

I need to do this, not just for myself, but also for my sons. They are closer to a “regular” pattern than I am, since they go to bed between 9 and 930 each night, but I am frequently up past midnight, awake at 6:15, and start all over. It makes me miserable. I need to figure out how to get things done earlier in the day so that I can be in bed by 10 every weeknight.

literally…
On Sunday I was feeling really tired and went to bed around 8.30pm. I read for about an hour and then felt so tired that I turned off the lights and went to sleep… only I couldn’t go to sleep… I was still awake at 1am!! I don’t actually no what time I fell asleep, but I was exhausted the next day.
So on Monday, again, I was really tired around 8, but I thought I best not go to bed too early. I finally went to bed around 9.30 and the same thing happened as on Sunday. I just could not sleep and again it was probably around 2am that I finally fell asleep. The weird thing is that I wasn’t even stressed about getting to sleep, it’s not like I was really trying to sleep. I simply went to bed because I was so tired that I thought I that I would fall asleep immediately.
Last night (Tuesday) I stayed up until around midnight, which is a bit better than the 2 previous nights, but still way too late.
I don’t actually know how much sleep I need – maybe I don’t need as much as I think I do. Still, I’d like to learn to go to bed a bit earlier so that I can wake up earier too.

I’ve started getting up at 540 ish.
I try to lay down by 8 even though I don’t fall asleep right away.
I think I might have to have a later night tonight but thats ok :)