Coaching practices for Daring Greatly Before Bed

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• The moment the lights go out my brain starts running tomorrow’s to-do list on a loop
• I lie awake at night with tomorrow’s undone work circling in my head, and then I start each morning cold, burning my best focus just deciding where to begin instead of already knowing.
• The second my head hits the pillow my mind starts up
• There’s one hard thing I’m dreading, so I "warm up" on easy busywork to feel productive
• I can see the wall coming

Practices that may help

1. Daring Greatly, Made Practical
   Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
2. Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal
   Write tomorrow’s to-do list and any intrusive worries before bed — externalized thoughts stop competing for attention at sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
3. Write tomorrow’s six most important tasks the evening before
   Before the day ends, write exactly six tasks — no more — for the next day, ordered by their importance to you.
   The Ivy Lee Method, Made Practical
4. Schedule a worry time earlier in the day
   Contain bedtime worry by giving anxious thoughts a specific earlier window, then postponing them at night.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
5. Do the hardest task first
   Tackle your single most important, most-dreaded task before anything else in the day.
   Eat That Frog, Made Practical
6. Extend sleep before an anticipated shortfall
   Sleep longer — 9–10 hours if you can tolerate it — for several nights before a period of known sleep restriction.
   Sleep Banking: Building a Buffer Before Sleep Loss
7. Use paradoxical intention for anxiety and anticipatory fear
   Intentionally wish for what you fear — not to encourage it but to dissolve the anticipatory dread that amplifies it.
   Logotherapy
8. Break the anxiety-about-sleep loop
   Interrupt the cycle where worrying about not sleeping becomes the main reason you can not sleep.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
9. Get out of bed when you can not sleep
   Leave the bed after roughly 20 minutes of wakefulness to avoid reinforcing the awake-in-bed association.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
10. Set a screen cutoff time
    Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
    The Digital Sunset

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