An early bedtime can be an active choice about tomorrow rather than a surrender of tonight.

Going to bed early can feel like giving up on an evening, as though the day had beaten you. Read the other way round, it is a decision made on behalf of tomorrow by the only person who can make it. Rest is not the absence of activity; it is the thing that makes the next fourteen hours possible, and it has to be taken from somewhere.

Pick one night this week and go up before you are forced to. Notice how the next morning behaves, and let that, rather than any sense of what an evening ought to contain, decide what you do next week.