Making any lasting change requires three things: Motivation, Mechanism, and Monitoring. I've implemented these three things to fix my sleep schedule: Motivatio

Making any lasting change requires three things: Motivation, Mechanism, and Monitoring. I've implemented these three things to fix my sleep schedule: Motivation comes from my own desire and encouragement from those around me. The Mechanism is to shift my eating schedule earlier by eating a snack in my bed right when the alarm goes off and eating dinner earlier. Monitoring is the log book of times that I eat, wake up, and go to sleep. Applying this technique for 2 weeks has yielded a 2-hour forward shift in my sleep schedule! :) The article mentions another mechanism: going outside right after waking up. I'm going to think about adding this mechanism to my sleep-schedule-shift personal development project.