Your Life Should Revolve Around Sleeping

Start your bedtime right when you wake up

Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Published in
4 min readNov 12, 2020

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Illustration of a woman getting into bed at night and getting up n the morning.
Illustration: Abbey Lossing

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead” might be one of the more damaging sayings in our contemporary productivity lexicon. Indeed, we know that sleep deprivation reduces productivity. In fact, you could even argue that because being well-rested makes you more productive and efficient, sleep doesn’t take time, it makes time.

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Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Writer for

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.