Get a good nights sleep

You want to talk about be a wreck. How about being nervous all day and then not being able to sleep at night. Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and your brain is just wide awake or you are worrying about something? Do you find yourself so sleepy in the evening you fall to sleep early only to wake up at 2 am? If you have trouble sleeping due to your anxiety here are a few tips that have worked for me.

1. Establish a regular bedtime. Force yourself to stay awake in the evening.
2. Go for a walk, get busy with something but don't go to bed at 9 pm only to suffer in the middle of the night.
3. Brain wash yourself: I use the following technique when I am not sleeping through the night and it helps me. I get settled in and I calm down and tell myself 3 to 5 times, "I am going to sleep until 5 am". Repeating this phrase to myself brain washes my mind to know that I am not suppose to get up until 5 am. It really helps me.
4. Turn the alarm clock around: Another thing that really frustrated me was waking up in the middle of the night and looking at the alarm clock and getting upset that it was 3 am and then waking staring at the clock until 5 am being upset. Finally, after going through this several nights my wife suggested that I turn the clock around so I couldn't see it. It helped a lot. If you wake up in the middle of the night and you look at the clock it just frustrates you.
5. Eating and drinking: Pay attention to what you are eating and drinking and how late you are eating or drinking. If I have beer to late I have to go to the bathroom too many times in the night and it interrupts my sleep. However, if I have just a small glass of wine, it calms me down and doesn't wake me up with the trips to the bathroom.
6. Melatonin: During business trips I sometimes have trouble sleeping due to time zone changes and jet lag. I have found 2 melatonin tablets are fantastic for supplementing a good nights sleep. In fact sometimes 2 is too much and I actually have a hard time waking up. For more information on melatonin go to: http://www.melatonin.com/