Weariness

What it takes to be alert and active during the day is a good sleep. I'm not calling this skill set, because biologically, you should already know how to do this. Before I get into the hard core reasoning of why sleep is good, I'll give you tactics on how to fall asleep.

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There is many websites on how to fall asleep, so here's one of them. On that website, they give you many ways to get some shut eye.

TACTIC 1: DO NOT EAT FOUR HOURS BEFORE BED. Simple, but this is because food gives you energy and energy is wasted and keeps you awake with its digestion.

TACTIC 2: BEFORE GOING TO BED, DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU ENERGIZED. Don't try to make yourself want to stay up and not sleep...

TACTIC 3: TRY TO GET AS COMFORTABLE AS YOU CAN. If it's going to be hot, don't put on heavy clothes, if it's going to be cold, don't sleep naked.

TACTIC 4: PLAN AHEAD AND DON'T WORRY. Set a list for yourself so that you know immediately what needs to be done in the morning so you don't have trouble falling asleep worrying about what will happen tomorrow.

TACTIC 5: DON'T THINK! Simple, just don't think, it helps the longer you think about it.

TACTIC 6: SIMPLE REPETITIVE, SOFT MUSIC CAN HELP YOU BECOME CALM AND REST. Making playlists and listening for a little bit before bed can help. But you don't have to do this if you don't want to.

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There is many more ways to get sleep, but these are some of my personal recommendations made through a little research.
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Looking across the internet, there is many websites dedicated to the knowledge of the mysterious process of sleep. Throughout all of them, they all agree that sleep is good. Not necessarily that the more sleep the better, just that sleep is needed. My main sources, WS 1 WS 2.

Sleep is a process not well understood. It's a behavioral state in which one is nearly motionless and unresponsive. There is two types of sleep; Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (nrem) and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (rem). Nrem sleep is more common than rem sleep, and results in four cycles. All of them are different and usually, you experience more "heavy" sleep in the first hour of sleep than our last. Rem sleep occurs in a specific time period and happens usually many times in one night. There is many theories and myth about sleep that may or may not be true and I recommend checking out the first website if you are interested in learning more.

Sleep is important because, it can cause narcolepsy, a disease of constant weariness, learning and memory prevention because, your brain doesn't work as well with little sleep, metabolism and weight-gain problems because, sleep may affect your metabolic functions and hormones, safety issues because you are more likely to make mistakes when your tired, irritability, moodiness and impatience, heart health and immune system weakening. If you get enough sleep and do not build up a sleep debt (Where you get just under the recommended amount of sleep for days or weeks), than you will be safer and more alert for the incoming invasion destined to happen.