I Have an Interview Tomorrow and Can’t Sleep! | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
I’ve got a job interview tomorrow and I can’t sleep. How do you calm your mind down the night prior to something major/semi-major and get a good night’s rest?
FEELING DEPRESSED About Your Search? Struggling? Feeling Fatigued?
What do you do when you have an important interview the next day, and you can’t sleep? I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, a career and leadership coach. And I host No BS Job Search Advice Radio, the number one podcast in Apple podcasts for job search with more than, as of this recording, 2300 shows over more than 11 years plus JobSearchTV.com on YouTube and Amazon.
Now, there’s a number of things that you can do. And one thing is meditation. You can focus on your breath, and breathe in, hold it for a four count, breathe out for a four count and then when the air is out, just stay there with a four count before you, again, breathe in for a four count, hold it for a four count and then breathe out for a four count and do this repeatedly. That’s one thing that you can do.
You can also take chamomile tea, if you have it in the house. Melatonin, if you have it in the house. Don’t take . . . I would say you can take two tea bags of chamomile to relax yourself. It won’t happen instantly. It’ll happen pretty quickly. You’ll start to get tired. You may try yoga, just gentle yoga, nothing particularly strenuous. And of course, counting sheep. You can count them from 1000 downward. You can count them by ones, threes, fives . . . slowly. The idea is to do things slowly and bore yourself. In this way, you’re not concentrating on doing it perfectly. But there is these are simple things that slow you down.
And that’s what you’re going for– simple things that slow down your mind so it has a chance to unwind. And with the exception of the yoga, it keeps you in bed, lights out so that this way you can fall asleep. And before you do that maybe you set an alarm.
Oh, I forgot one thing. There are relaxation sounds that you can get on your phone for free, or on YouTube for free. It can be sounds of waterfalls or a rainstorm, or a combination of the two that allow your mind to slowly slowly relax and fall asleep.
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