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7 Healthy Habits to Stop Napping Every Day
Without giving up coffee!
I used to nap most days. The earliest recollection I have of taking a nap when I probably shouldn’t have was when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I got home from school and was supposed to be going to my friend’s house once I got changed. Instead, I lay down and went to sleep.
My parents were not impressed, and neither was I. Even at that age I felt guilty, having messed up my friend’s plans. I still feel guilty looking back on it.
That was a one off in primary school (as far as I can recall, or want to recall anyway) but then about halfway through high school I picked up the bad habit of napping more regularly. I didn’t nap every day, but it was still often enough to call it a habit. Once I got to university however, the odd nap became the regular nap, and it was almost a must when I started working as well.
This continued into 2020, when I decided I was wasting far too much time, and had to change things. I didn’t change one individual thing, so I can’t pinpoint which ones were most influential in my endeavours to stop napping.
But if you also suffer from the perpetual urge to nap, then my goal with this article is to just put down everything I did in the hope that, if you can adopt some of them yourself, you will be able to…
