How Writing A List Can Help You Get Better Sleep

The busyness of our lives is keeping some of us from getting a good night’s rest.  We lie in bed reviewing our unfinished to-do lists and wonder how it will ever get done.  It then seems more and more stuff gets piled on.

Researchers at Baylor University conducted an experiment to find out if writing down a to-do list would help people sleep better.

The experiment involved one set of volunteers writing a to-do list of things yet to be accomplished verses another set of volunteers who wrote down a list of completed tasks.

It turns out that those who wrote down a to-do list, on average, fell asleep nine minutes faster than those people who merely wrote down their list of accomplished tasks.

Researcher, Micael K. Scullin says, “There are two schools of thought about this.  One is that writing about the future would lead to increased worry about unfinished tasks and delay sleep, while journaling about completed activities should not trigger worry. The alternative hypothesis is that writing a to-do list will ‘offload’ those thoughts and reduce worry.”

Source:  Want better sleep? Write a to-do list, study says

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