There you are in bed and your anxious mind is recalling the things you didn’t get done during the day—unwanted thoughts coming at you like pop-up signs “why didn’t you______, you should have________” fill in the blanks: resisted that cookie, exercised, called that person, not watched so much TV… the list goes on and on, and sleep eludes you once again. Many people have trouble falling asleep at night, and some have trouble going back to sleep once they’ve woken up.  We’ve heard over and over that we need 7-8 hours of sleep in order to function.  If we get less than that on a regular basis we make more mistakes and can be cranky and unpleasant. No matter how much work you have, you need to schedule enough sleep so that