For When It’s Time to Get Off the Couch and Go to Bed
Okay, buster—the jig is up.
It’s past your bedtime, yet here you are: on the couch, barely awake, with no intention of getting up and going to bed.
This is a classic case of Newton’s first law of motion: objects at rest stay on the couch. We have a suspicion that you’re scrolling on your phone while somehow also mindlessly watching a show you’ve already lost interest in, simply because the gravitational pull of the couch is too strong. So you need to make getting up and into bed as easy as possible.
Here’s what you’re going to do (and what we’re confident you
can do): get up and go to bed.
And here’s what you’re not going to do (and what we’re confident you
wouldn’t have done anyway): anything else beyond that.
Too tired to wash your face? We’ll worry about it tomorrow! Don’t want to brush your teeth? Molars aren’t that useful anyway! Too sleepy to put on PJs? Your jeans are plenty comfy!
The one and only goal right now is to get into your bed. We know you can get there. Because the alternative is waking up in the middle of the night, confused, with a crick in your neck and a sinking feeling that you should have just gotten up and gone to bed in the first place. Then Newton wins, and nobody wants that.
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