After three years averaging 6.5 hours of sleep nightly with 80% consistency, this person is raising their target to seven hours. They'll track the change through November and December, testing strategies to hit the new goal while expecting to maintain roughly 80% adherence.
Sleep, like I said, it's my most important foundational health habit. And 6.5 hours is always what I've tracked since I started tracking habits 6 years ago. So 3 years ago. And for the most part, it's taken me the best part of 3 years to get to the point where 6.5 hours is comfortable, second nature, and almost always over 80%. So I feel like it's in a safe enough space now to increase my expectations a little bit for sleep. And I think 7 hours is what I really need to kind of choose as the next level to try and hit for sleep. So I'm going to increase my sleep from 6.5 hours to 7 hours. We'll see what happens in November and December. I think with a little bit of extra attention and focus on sleep, I should be able to stay in the 80%, but it's also not unreasonable to expect that I will have to find myself pushed down to the 70%. And then I will have to figure out the odd tip or hack or strategy to kind of more safely always be in 7 hours.
