Step 5 of 11 · Sleep Better Tonight Without Supplements
Phone charges outside the bedroom
Phone charges outside the bedroom — step 5 of 11 in Sleep Better Tonight Without Supplements. Move your phone charger to the kitchen, the hallway, or at minimum the far side of the bedroom.
Free everyday life tip: Phone charges outside the bedroom (step 5 of 11 from "Sleep Better Tonight Without Supplements").
Move your phone charger to the kitchen, the hallway, or at minimum the far side of the bedroom. If your phone is within arm's reach, you will check it — not because you lack discipline, but because it is designed to be checked. Notification sounds, screen glow, and the knowledge that the entire internet is 30 cm from your pillow all contribute to arousal when you should be winding down.
Use a cheap alarm clock ($10) instead of your phone alarm. If you need the phone for an alarm, place it across the room face-down (same strategy as the morning routine course). The 30-second walk to turn off the alarm in the morning is a bonus — but the real benefit is that you stop scrolling in bed at 11 PM. Every study on phone use in bed shows the same result: later sleep onset, shorter sleep duration, worse sleep quality. Remove the phone and you remove the cause.
You'll need
- Phone charger moved outside bedroom
- Alarm clock purchased or phone placed far away
- No tablet or laptop in bed
- TV off at least 30 minutes before bed
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