After a night of poor sleep, you’d think that you should catch up on sleep by sleeping in the next day. But, by sleeping in, you won’t feel tired the following night, and you’ll stay up late again and wake up late again.

In order to develop a better sleep schedule, it is best to go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time regardless of the day of the week and how bad a night of sleep was.

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