Becoming an Early Riser: Day Two
posted on june 7, 2005, tag: me
So this is day two. I had a dream this morning—one of those really vivid, feels completely real kind of dreams—that I slept through my alarm and woke up at 10:45. In the dream I was really pissed off—it was only my second day of trying to become an early riser and I had overslept by 3 hours. I ran into the bathroom and showered like a crazy person, constantly yelling about how late I was and how it only took one day for me to completely ruin any chances of success with this 30-day trial.
Then I woke up and it was 7:15AM. That made me feel a lot better.
Last night I fell asleep at about 1:15AM, which seems too late, but here I am. I have a problem where if I'm doing something on my computer, I can seemingly stay up all night without blinking an eye, so I have to be careful about that ruining the method. After all, how can I go to bed only when I'm tired if I'm on my computer and never feel tired? I've decided that from now on, my cutoff time is 12:30AM. If I'm not tired by then, I'm going to stop doing whatever I'm doing and lie down and read.
7:30 feels too late. There isn't much time after showering and getting dressed, et cetera. I'm thinking I might need to move the time back to 7. I'll give it a few more days.
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Erik Weibust on 06/07/2005:
Yeah, 7:30 isn't that impressive but after reading the posts on Steve Pavlina's blog I see the point he was making about baby steps (like when he was talking about dropping coffee). You should try getting up at 7:30 for a couple of weeks and then move it back to 7am for a couple weeks.
Me, I get up at 5:30. With NO alarm..... It took a number of months to get to the point where I don't need an alarm clock but I'm there now...
Erik
Timen on 06/11/2005:
Let me know if you move it to 7, because then I might follow.
I have the exact same problem with my computer. I can keep at it till 4 AM, at which point I start doing less active stuff like watching a movie or reading an essay, after which I will fall asleep pretty easily... but 4 AM is far too late. I will also adopt the 12:30 point.
Man, I love it when I don't have to do the thinking.