11/19/18 Newsletter: The Sleep Trick You Need

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Insomniacs, listen up: The key to perfect sleep is restricting the amount of time you spend in your bed. Lounging in your bed attempting to snooze could lead your body down a path of associating the bedroom with a restless night.

The Trick: Instead of spending more time in bed each night hoping to get better sleep, set a consistent early wake-up time and don’t go to bed until six hours before it each night. Many experts say that this short-term sleep restriction method promotes a more restful night’s sleep for those struggling with insomnia symptoms.

The Bottom Line: While getting six hours of sleep seems like it wouldn’t necessarily help you sleep better, you’ll successfully train your brain to go to sleep when you need it, launching you out of that terrible cycle of insomnia. Sleep FTW! [Swirled]

Life Hack Of The Day: Potatoes Edition

Keep potatoes warm all day long by using the “warm” setting on your Crock-Pot.

Health

There are some pretty awesome benefits to being an early riser. Research shows that morning people are more likely to take charge in their own lives and change less-than-ideal situations to make them more advantageous ones. They tend to be happier than night owls, too. [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

Your iPhone has some tricks up its sleeve that you need to know about. For instance, you can learn what data your location services has picked up about you. Just go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations, and you’ll be able to see how long and how many times you’ve been to certain places. Don’t miss our other great phone secrets. [Swirled]

Need To Know: You can free up your time by outsourcing some of your chores with service-oriented apps. Cleanly, for example, will pick up your laundry, clean it and deliver it right back to your door within 24 hours. Talk about tackling your day! [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

It takes more than 10 million pounds of cheese to make a year’s worth of Cheetos. We bet you also didn’t know that the world’s largest Cheeto, which is the size of a small lemon, resides in Iowa. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Snuggle up to a heaping bowl of chicken and dumplings to battle the chilly weather outside. You can make it all in one pot in less than 30 minutes, or you can let it simmer for longer — whatever floats your boat! [Swirled]

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Travel

According to a new survey, more than half of travelers say the worst behavior on a plane is someone kicking the back of your seat. Coming in second and third place? Crying babies and smelly seatmates. Check out the list to read about other pet peeves of your fellow passengers.  [Swirled]

Deal Of The Day: You can fulfill your ultimate French dreams by staying in a houseboat Airbnb located right next to the Eiffel Tower. The Airbnb includes lodging for two, a full kitchen, a bathroom and easy access to all of the best things about Paris for just $226 a night. [Swirled]

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Props

Jon A. finished three clerkships and started working at a law firm.

Emily A. is embarking on a month-long Asia adventure.

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