Some life hacks from an old lady

It’s not like I haven’t mentioned my upcoming birthday incessantly over the last few days… I may now be forty-four, when it comes to my birthday, I’ll be a four year old forever. And yet, I have gained some nuggets of wisdom over the last years that I’ll share with you here.

It works well for scaredy cats like me, until you reach the last available season. I’m now completely hooked even though I can hardly deal with the suspense. So when I watch it before bed, I would have trouble falling asleep if it weren’t for this trick:

Think of a word, five letters minimum, something you can visualise.

Like:

Then, for each letter of that word, think of another word.

It’s called 'cognitive shuffling’ and it works so well because it’s challenging enough to take your mind off other things while boring enough to let you fall asleep.

On the subject of sleep…

I hope you found this helpful!

If you have any good tricks, please let me know!

With love,