All Things Beautiful
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I woke up this morning before the alarm went off at 5 AM. It appears that I am adjusting to the new schedule. It certainly has been long enough. In case you missed it, I am doing a trial of waking up at 5 AM every day of the week for 30 days. I slipped a couple of times and had to restart the 30 days. So far, so good for a couple of weeks.
As mentioned earlier, sometimes it’s not so easy. It is especially rough when I go to bed late. If I don’t hop out of bed as soon as the alarm goes off, I’ll linger and fall asleep again. I am damn convincing on just a few hours of sleep that I ought to go back to sleep. I fall for it every time.
Once you wake up early long enough, you start to wake up in anticipation of the alarm clock. It isn’t always easy, even when you beat the clock. However, your odds of waking up and staying up get much better over time.
Things are easier when you wake up early. For one, you can be one of those annoying morning people if you’ve had enough time to wake up before getting to work. Another thing that gets easier is your commute to work. You can drive in between the first waves of morning traffic. You have time to make breakfast and eat it. You have time, which I’ll begin to use, to make lunch. You have a better shave because you are not in a hurry. If you forget something, you have time to go back home to get it. I could go on and on about the benefits; but, I haven’t had a chance to discover all of them yet.
The most surprising thing about waking up early is how relaxed it is. I’ve read about how Type A personalities who wake up start tackling the world early suffer from higher stress and rates of heart attacks. Perhaps I am the wrong personality type.
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