STOP HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON!

ONE thing we can all do that would make a surprisingly big difference to how we feel in the mornings is to stop pressing the snooze button on our alarm.

It’s tempting to think that an extra ten minutes will make you feel better, but hitting snooze will actually have the opposite effect.

‘Setting an early alarm only to “snooze it” continuously will needlessly interrupt deep sleep,’ says independent sleep expert Dr Neil Stanley. ‘Rather than waking up every ten minutes and snoozing the alarm, you’d be better off actually setting it for the latest possible time that you have to get up, and buying yourself another 30 minutes of consolidated sleep.’

This way, you’re increasing the chance that you’ll be in a period of light sleep by the time your alarm goes off, making it much easier to get up.