Your Biggest New Year's Resolution and 5 Ways to Keep It

In a single sentence, just lose your sleep on the target you set! Heck, you must now all be cursing me and call my prescribed procedure as purely theoretical; those into the habit of raising counter-questions and being combative shall bring in the importance of sleep for keeping the psycho-somatic balance intact. However, my point was to reduce the number of hours you sleep every day. That it's necessary to sleep for at least eight hours a day is a myth bygone; new medical researches find six hours of sleep to be sufficient. If you ask why, then think about why you sleep. You sleep to re-energize yourself and to feel refreshed, which is attained within the number of hours aforementioned. Evident as well from the studies of Gregg D Jacobs PhD - let me quote him here "If sleep duration is too short or too long, you'll have a higher likelihood of having heart disease or depression later in life." Now, depression is the main culprit that bars you from reaching your target; besides, it sets in the tiredness once more that blocks you from working towards the goal simply because the brain starts believing that it didn't have adequate rest if the second-cycle sleep is broken abruptly. Comprende? So wake up after being asleep for six hours at a stretch if you want your fate to wake up as well!

If you are asking me why I'm stressing more on reducing the quantity of sleep, I shall be honest about it; 2008 has been a year that deteriorated the quality of my life because of oversleeping. It has been to me an year of over-indulgences and now I feel there's more of caffeine and alcohol in my veins than blood and nicotine and THC in my lungs than oxygen. It's time to cut down on the less-harmful stuff; while caffeine and nicotine are useful at times, the other two are never. It's a late realization, but a realization nevertheless. Deduce further and you shall come down to one simple cause that has simply kept you away from reaching your goals: it's a-d-d-i-c-t-i-o-n!

So all of you who are addicted to something or the other - may it be the Internet, or chocolates, or even work, get the facts straight on how to keep it in control (if you can't leave it completely, that is) even if you can't let it go straightaway:

i. Schedule your tomorrow tonight.

ii. Don't cram today's leftovers into tomorrow; rather leave no leftovers.

iii. Allot equal number of hours to your individual tasks; if you finish a task earlier, utilize the saved hours for the next. But that doesn't mean you are getting 3 hours for a 2 hours job; you are supposed to get that done within the pre-scheduled 2 hours. That way, you shall be able to retire early for the day, everyday.

iv. Never gulp down more caffeine than you require in fact, check your intake amount by visiting this link.

v. Have the willpower to stick to what you have set for yourself.