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Sleep on Your New Year’s Resolution
Every year millions of Americans make one or more New Year’s resolutions. A New Year’s resolution is a kind of personal promise to change something about one’s life for the better. It could be losing weight, achieving a career goal, or eliminating some bad habit. It’s all about personal improvement. Often, people resolve to do something that is unpleasant or difficult. They pledge to cut out high calorie foods, work overtime to get ahead, stop spending money on unnecessary (but fun) things, and so on. Within a month of the New Year’s start, most of them have failed and are back to their old ways.
There is one easy New Year’s resolution that can be adopted in order to improve your health, the quality of job performance, and even your mood and social life. Unlike most of the other New Year’s resolutions that people try and quickly discard, this one’s easy. To improve all of these areas of one’s life, the only resolution one needs to make is to make sure they get at least 7-8 hours of quality sleep every night.
A full night’s sleep, according to a number of studies, can dramatically improve one’s ability to focus and concentrate on difficult tasks. Being better able to focus on the daily issues that one faces on the job is going to pay dividends when it’s time for one’s annual merit raise review. Additionally, getting a full night’s sleep reduces irritability and mood swings. That’s also going to improve your stock at the office.
Not only will a more easy-going and steady demeanor make you more pleasant to be around at work, but it can help in social situations as well. A better relationship with one’s family and friends could be one of the benefits of adopting the simple New Year’s resolution of getting enough sleep, if you are currently getting less than six hours of sleep each night.
For some, making and keeping this resolution might be as simple as buying a new memory foam mattress. An old uncomfortable mattress may be one thing that is currently preventing a full night’s sleep. Old mattresses tend to sag in the middle, resulting in improper spinal alignment that can not only interfere with a restful sleep, but can also be a cause of chronic back pain.
Memory foam mattresses also reshape themselves to conform to the contours of the body to reduce pressure points that can occur with conventional mattresses to the areas where most of one’s body weight lies: the shoulders, the hips and knees. A memory foam mattress, instead spreads its support out over the entire surface of the body to allow a restful night’s sleep without all the tossing and turning trying to find a comfortable position.
This year, instead of making a New Year’s resolution that you probably can’t keep, make one that is not only easy to keep, but which can help make dramatic improvements in a number of areas of your life.