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Daylight Saving Time imposes a one-hour jet lag on millions of us at once,” says Benjamin Smarr, PhD, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and Reverie sleep advisory board member. ” Sleep experts say that it’s easier to adjust to the time change in the fall than in the spring, when we “lose” an hour of sleep. I’m going to toss and turn in my bed and get frustrated, then get anxious that sleep will never come,” says sleep-disorders specialist Sue X. Ming, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark. [That’s about] how much your body naturally makes,” says Anil Rama, MD, medical director for Kaiser Permanente’s regional sleep medicine laboratory in San Jose, California.

In fact, according to Dr. Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep & Health Research Program and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine clinic at the University of Arizona, sleep is one of the best predictors of overall mood. This can impact not only your ability to focus and keep mentally balanced during the day, but it can also help you make healthy dietary choices, since it improves decision making and helps you keep perspective on your priorities; get more physical activity, because you have more energy and are more efficient with your time; and manage stress.” Squeeze in a work out, no matter how quick it might be. Whether you want to keep a gratitude journal, or simply make a list every day, starting a “gratitude practice” has a surprising amount of health benefits. Research shows that expressing gratitude can improve physical and psychological health, cultivating things like better sleep, self-esteem, and resilience.

Sometimes, it’s a big project where you usually need a lot of time to prepare, like a far-out work deadline or training for a half-marathon; it’s easy to delay tasks you won’t have to deal with tomorrow. If you are trying to work on a lengthy, time-intensive task, like cleaning a super-messy garage or writing a 10-page end-of-semester assignment, make a contract with yourself to get started— albeit, for a short time. Maybe you committed to edit a friend’s resumé, or you’re trying to find time to see a work acquaintance because she asked you for help. But saying no to some tasks that aren’t in line with your values can free up more energy and calendar space to work on challenges that are, so you don’t end up delaying your personal projects and goals in the service of others.

You might be fatigued at the end of the day or the day might run long because things happen and all of a sudden you have no time to [work out],” says celebrity trainer and Fitbit Ambassador Harley Pasternak. But if you schedule your workout for first thing in the morning, it’s done before you run into any obstacles during the day (like a long day at work or spontaneous plans with your friends) that can keep you from working out. when you’re going to exercise in advance will give you less to think about in the morning—which will make it easier to roll out of bed and get to your workout. But if you’re not in the habit of exercising in the morning (or exercising at all), waking up to run six miles or lift for an hour can feel overwhelming—and make it more likely that you’ll turn off your alarm and go back to sleep.