Did you know just 6 minutes of reading reduces stress by 68%?

Bill Gates reads for an hour before hitting the sheets, no matter how late it is.

Here are a few reads he has recommended:

The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion

2. Meditate

Sleep science: Meditation helps reduce stress levels and boost sleep hormone Melatonin.

Oprah Winfrey meditates twice a day, once before bed. She has even released her own mediation app.

Top meditation apps:

Oprah & Deepak’s 21-Day Meditation Experience

The Mindfulness App

Headspace

3. Have a bath

“If you raise your temperature a degree or two with a bath, the steeper drop at bedtime is more likely to put you in a deep sleep,” – Joyce Walsleben, PhD, NYU School of Medicine.

Arianna Huffington is an advocate for a pre-bedtime bath filled with Epsom salt and lavender oil.

The best sleep-inducing bath ingredients are:

Epsom salt

Pink Himalayan sea salt

Lavender essential oil

4. Get a Massage

Did you know a gentle, three-minute back rub could help you get 35 minutes extra sleep?

Gwyneth Paltrow recommends a foot or head massage to relax before going to bed.

If you cannot get to a masseuse often, try to recruit your partner or get a trusty massage pillow.

5. Feel the humidity

Mariah Carey sleeps roughly 15 hours a night and has several humidifiers in her bedroom.

Sleep science: Having a room that’s the right temperature and humidity can aid sleep. If you or your partner snores, a humidifier may help as it clears your sinuses.

If you want to try this at home humidity levels should be around 45%. Anything lower can irritate your eyes, nose and throat. Measure your humidity with a digital hygrometer.

6. Keep it dark

‘Exposure to light stimulates a nerve pathway from the retina in the eye to an area in the brain called the Hypothalamus.’ This consequently wakes us up. – The National Sleep Foundation.

Eminem supposedly goes as far as wrapping tin foil around his windows to keep the light at bay!

If you do not want to go reaching for the foil, blackout blinds should do the trick.

Best of luck with your pre-bedtime routine. Good night!

Popular African Twitter user, @Cellular_ZA (Cellular) shared two pictures of himself as part of the "How it started vs how it's going" trend. Cellular's first image appears to be his pre-school graduation.

The second image is of him graduating from a tertiary institution. Cellular's tweet received hundreds of responses from Saffa tweeps. Many are congratulating him on his accomplishments while others can't get over how cute he was as a kid.

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Cellular's "how it started vs how it's going" challenge received over 6 000 likes and over 300 retweets at the time of writing this report.

Pretty lady shows off her NYSC certificate after completion of 1 year service, many react (photos)

This young man shared his glow up through a Twitter trend. Source: @Cellular_ZA / Twitter

Take a look at Cellular's tweet below:

Take a look at some of the responses to his tweet:

@Thato_Rachidi wrote:

"That's a good thing, my Man... This shows that we are serious with life, we are not on Twitter only without doing anything."

@Bongv_ said:

"All u need is respect Mr!!"

@theolimourii replied wit"

"The boy is focused and nothing can disturb the boy... Congratulations once again."

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In similar news Legit.ng recently reported about a man who hustled to put himself through varsity . Not everyone can afford to go to university but some people work hard to make their dreams a reality.

One man, Jon Lyon, took to Twitter to share how he hustled to put himself through university. Lyon took part in a social media challenge where he detailed how his life has changed over a couple of years.

Level up! Man who hustled hard to pay fees in school finally makes it, see his new car people can't stop talking about (photos)

The post inspired South Africans and they applauded Lyon in the comment section. He captioned the post: "How it started vs how it is going. Hustle for University Application fee 2012 vs 2016 UCT Alumni."

Unemployed graduates are too many in my ghetto