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I Was Diagnosed with Insomnia. Here’s How I Get More Sleep.

Insomnia: pay attention to your patterns

Look at your full day to identify the causes of insomnia, not just the hours before you go to bed.

For example, setting too many meetings or not permitting yourself to take a break can leave you too wound up to fall asleep later at night. Instead, schedule your most intense work in the morning, and do more mundane tasks in the afternoon.

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To really find out what your individual sleep needs are, do the following experiment for at least two weeks:

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