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5 Tips To Recharge Your Body And Mind Overnight

Written by Dave Navarro on June 24, 2008

Now that you know that quality sleep is more important than just getting X hours of shut-eye, let’s talk about what you can start doing this week to take those hours you spend sleeping and turn them into serious recharge time.

Recharging Is Different Than Sleeping

For a lot of people, “sleeping” happens every night, but “recharging” doesn’t.  How do you know if this is happening to you?  If you wake up as tired (or more tired) than you were before you went to sleep, then you didn’t recharge.  You just took a breather, but you’re still exhausted.  Naturally, you want more than that out of your night.

The key to restful, recharging sleep is to do the same thing I do to the AA batteries I have at home when I want them to recharge - unplug them first.  Unplug your mind from the stress of the day, from all your worries and obligations, and give your mental wheels a chance to spin down and cool off for the night.

Easier said than done?  Perhaps so.  But perhaps the real issue people have isn’t that “unplugging” is difficult as much as they don’t have a plan for doing so.  When you’re stressed and exhausted, winging it isn’t the most effective way to do things successfully.  You need a plan.