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5 Evening Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Sleep

If you want to sleep better at night, here’s what you need to do.

Matt Lillywhite
4 min readDec 19, 2019
Photo by Remy_Loz on Unsplash

How often do you find yourself struggling to sleep?

Perhaps you’re tossing & turning under the covers, unable to get to sleep because your mind is continually overthinking.

Or maybe you’re waking up in the middle of the night, with a desperate urge to use the bathroom after drinking loads of water before bed.

For the longest time, I used to watch YouTube videos until the early hours of the morning.

Each day, I woke up extremely tired as a result of poor evening habits that were sabotaging my sleep. As you can imagine, focusing on my college work during the day wasn’t easy.

I knew that something had to change.

So I began studying the benefits of sleep and how to optimize my evening routine to wake up feeling refreshed. Although changing my lifestyle wasn’t easy, the difference it made in my sleep quality was profound.

Below are a collection of lessons I’ve learned from adjusting my habits for better sleep. Each one changed my life for the better, and I hope they do the same for you, too.

Don’t Drink Coffee In The Evening.

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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