It's one of life's cruel ironies: on the nights when you most desperately need to get some good sleep, your mind is in overdrive. It can be a presentation you're giving the next day, obsession over a new guy, or fear that you won't wake up in time to catch an early-morning flight. And somehow falling asleep turns into mission impossible. Once I was trying hard to fall asleep and found out what exactly it was that didn't let me do it. It was the clock.

Simply hide the clock you alarmed for the morning. Don't you think that what contributes to insomnia is the stress of lying there at 3 a.m. and watching the time go by on the clock. If you're worried about oversleeping, set two alarms, then turn your clock away from you. Otherwise you'll periodically open your eyes and watching the clock ticking will add more drive to your brain.

Have a good sleep!