Sleep to Achieve Your New Year's Resolutions

With the coming of the New Year, many will have made resolutions to lose weight, stop smoking or get more exercise. These are all worthy goals.

Here's another resolution to consider - get more sleep!

For many of us, this may be as unattainable as some of the other resolutions. In fact, in giving time to some of our other resolutions, we may even be increasing our sleep debt.

However, if you make sleep more of a priority, you'll find that Jeripetrini other goals will be easier to achieve. When you are well-rested, you'll have more energy for exercise. You'll be in a better frame of mind to make better food choices. Most importantly, with better sleep, you'll be better able to manage your weight because your natural hunger suppression mechanism will work as it should.

Another resolution to consider if you are not sleeping as well as you would want is to finally take that step and seek the advice of a sleep specialist. The majority of people who have sleep problems never tell their physician because they don't believe that a 'sleep' problem is a medical or health problem. As a result, 90% of people with sleep disorders have never been diagnosed.

This New Year, resolve to get the sleep you need to be healthy and in so doing, we'll be better able to achieve your other important goals and resolutions.

Strategies for Health and Well-Being

Learn about sleep and sleep disorders.

Choose sleep before chores.

Provide sleep disorder screening for all employees.

Monitor hours of work so that employees have adequate time for sleep.

Ensure stress is minimized so that work-related stress and anxiety don't interfere with sleep.

Carolyn Schur

Carolyn Schur is a sleep strategist who helps people Sleep Better - Feel Better - Work Better. Her new book is 'Alert@Work: Keys to Managing Sleep and Fatigue in the Workplace.' Go to http://www.alertatwork.com or call 1-866-975-1165.