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.

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.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort – Paul J Meyer. Top 8 Productivity Hacks will help you become productive (as is obvious). It consists of some tips, tricks and ideas to make you more efficient.

Productivity Hack #1 : Plan Your Sleeping Pattern

A lot has been said about becoming an early riser. While I do agree that waking up early has it’s own benefits, it is not mandatory to do so. As long as we sleep for required amount of hours, our body and mind will function well.

Sometime back I wrote about How to Become an Early Sleeper where I highlighted all the do’s of becoming an early sleeper. Following are some of the don’ts; Common mistakes made while forming a sleep pattern:

How To Sleep Early