Also: remove phones and ipads from bedroom, remove tvs/laptop/computers from bedroom, no email/blog/web articles before bed time.
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#12Ha. A "blogfomercial", or a blog infomercial.
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#13I don't mean to be cynical, but it seems like someone else has just "discovered" the motivation for GTD. After all, that's the entire point of the system; Loading everything you need to remember into a trusted system so that your mind can remain clear, focused, and relaxed.
You are spot on. If you are well organized, you will have no problem sleeping, because your stuff is in your trusted system/inbox and not your head.
But if you are not well organized, then this 1 simple technique comes in handy.
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#14This doesn't necessarily work for me. I will start going down the rabbit hole of fleshing out ideas and going down corridors of thought, and I'll soon have filled up four or five pages of a legal pad only to have amplified the circus in my head to a deafening level. I find a glass of scotch and putting on an old TV episode that I've seen 100 times before to personally be the best cure for insomnia.
+1 on the TV advice, but I personally don't need the scotch ;) I find that old cartoons and/or space documentaries on Netflix do the trick.
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#15Also: remove phones and ipads from bedroom, remove tvs/laptop/computers from bedroom, no email/blog/web articles before bed time.
True, I have the urge to check my mails often when my system lies in front of me, I made it a point to keep my laptop inside its case before sleeping and this has reduced the email urge to a great extent.
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#16This is not the reason I can't sleep. I fall asleep just fine. I have a hard time staying asleep because of the small child who climbs into my bed in the middle of the night. Even then, it's not the extra person in the bed as much as getting kicked for the rest of the night.
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#17Ha. A "blogfomercial", or a blog infomercial.
Bingo. Note his posting history.
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#18I agree that 'brain dumping' is incredibly useful for soothing a racing mind, but I would also say that caffeine doesn't help.
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#19Summary: Because I don't use your software. Please no more ads on HN.
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#20Also: remove phones and ipads from bedroom, remove tvs/laptop/computers from bedroom, no email/blog/web articles before bed time.
I do this - all my technology is in another room of the house. My computer, phone, TV, none of it is in my bedroom. I just plug my phone into a charger in another room overnight.
The only concession to technology in my bedroom is a DAB clock radio. I'm not interested in checking Twitter or email or whatever from bed, but if it's there, I'll do it instead of sleeping. So just keeping all that stuff in a different room works!
This article is nonsense. It's just a sales pitch for some software. Going on the computer and writing your notes in that software just before bed is likely to harm your sleep, as is going on a computer to do anything right before bed...