Dr. Michael Grandner

So like maybe within a half an hour of when you're planning on going to bed, maybe switch to something that's not too mentally activating.

Like if you're the kind of person where you watch the news and it gets you all worked up and angry, don't do that before going to bed.

Maybe do it the hour, you know, in the, in the earlier part of the evening.

Um, I mean, the great thing now is TV isn't live anymore.

Back when I was a kid, you had to watch it when it was on and that was it.

Now we can watch, we can, we can gain more control over what we're exposing ourselves to media wise.

The rule of thumb I use, and this is what I use for myself.

If an alarm went off right now and said, okay, time to turn it off.

Could I?

If the answer is yes, then it's probably okay to do within that timeframe because I can easily disconnect from it.

If the answer is, no, no, no, five more minutes.

I want to see how it ends or I want to, you know, whatever.

That's probably not the thing to watch in that buffer time.

Watch it before the buffer time, but don't do that in the buffer time.

Like if you're scrolling and you can easily put it down.

I don't know that that's that big of a deal.

But if you're scrolling and like half an hour will go by and you wouldn't even notice and you lose that time.

And then you say you don't have time, but you just threw away some time, you know, that you didn't need.

So like those are the sort of things you want to, you want to make sure that you curate what you're doing so that it's not too activated.

Well, they don't not work.