Roxanne’s Tips For Making A Smooth Transition After Daylight Saving Time

We've heard all the statistics supporting the fact that changing the clocks is bad for our bodies. So you can imagine that it creates plenty of loss in productivity at work. What can we do to make the adjustment run smoothly?

A sleep-medicine doctor, Rachel Zielger, explains that "Daylight saving time can affect your mood, your overall alertness, your memory and your ability to overall comprehend appropriately. It's the most difficult to adjust to for those who are already sleep-deprived or those who already have poor sleep habits."

Well, that's bad news. So the worse you sleep, the worse you are going to sleep after the time change. Here are some tips from an expert, and then how they worked for me or how I had to modify them.

1. Slowly change your bedtime. The week before go to bed a little earlier, like l5 minutes earlier each night. And adjust your meals while you're at it.

Great tip, unless your a procrastinator (me).

2. Shut off your electronic devices early.

Nice idea, unless you are nervous you might sleep through your alarm and you keep waking up to check the phone.

3. Follow your normal bedtime routine.

Please tell that to my children.

4. Get natural sunlight

If you're like me, and find these tips to be good in theory, but couldn't actually execute them properly, you can try these tips Monday morning:

1. Dunk your head in a bucket of ice as soon as your alarm goes off.
2. Ask a co-worker to meet you at your car so he/she can carry you to your desk. (Thank you, Andrew.)
3. Ask a co-worker to drug you. (nothing illegal or heavy. Just an extra scoop of matcha in your coffee when you're not looking.) Thank you, Andrew.
4. Tell your co-workers where they can find you if they can't find you. Passed out or hiding under your desk.

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