While making a long distance travel, ‘how to beat jet lag‘ is a question that usually stays on top of your mind; especially when your first experience of jet lag was of splitting headaches, odd sleeping and waking times, and no feeling of rest in spite of long hours of sleep (as was the case with me).

This time, when I had to make a trip to India and back to US in a few months, I didn’t want to be incapacitated with jet lag. While I did find options of getting no jet lag through medications, I was only interested in natural ways of preventing jet lag all together and if I do get jet lagged then the easiest way of getting over it.

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… This time, we could bring in a total of 5 suitcases and 2 handbags (between me n hubby) which is equivalent to more than 300 pounds of stuff. You can probably imagine what a feat it should be to put everything in its rightful place. But the speed at which we could finish sorting and organising everything surprised us. Within a couple of hours we finished the daunting task of putting everything in it’s place be it kitchen, pantry, closet etc.

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It is said that the easiest way to simplify complicated concepts is to try explaining it to a kid. With a kid, all layers of complexity dissolve and you are left with the pure and core value of your concept – ditto when trying to make some kind of changes in you / your life.

This week as I observed how my three year old niece’s sleep timing was changed from late riser to early riser, I stumbled upon one of the simplest ways to change our sleeping pattern.

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The basic test of being organized consists of two simple questions to which if you answer yes, then you are all set and if you answer no, then you still have some work to do.

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