04.17.08

Starting the day

Posted in life at 10:00 am by coldclimate

I’m trying to get into a new routine in the morning.  I am traditionally a night owl and slug-a-bed, but I’m trying to affect a change.  Gone are the days (erm, nights) of staying up until 2 am buggering about with stuff followed by dragging my grumpy bum out of bed at 8am to struggle into work, fueled by caffine and 10am bacon sandwiches, being grumpy all day and only getting productive at 9pm.

Firstly, I’m getting out of bed when my alarm goes off.  I used to use 2 alarms, the radio coming on (BBC radio4) to “warm me up” and then my mobile phone’s harsh and abrasive beeping to actually drag me out of bed 15 minutes later.  The problem being that I woke up when the radio went off, and then dozed until the phone went off.  This method taught me how to doze through alarms.  Now I have one alarm - the very harsh and rasping beep of my alarm clock, and once it goes off I have to get out of bed ot turn it off (it’s on the other side of the room).  I’ve started not closing my curtains at night so that the rising sun “warms me up” to getting out of bed.

Once I’m out of my pit I then make myself get out of the bedroom and go for a shower, rather than risk “just laying down for a moment” and thus sleeping for another hour.

I’m also getting up earlier.  By setting my alarm 15 minutes earlier ever week I should have time to get use to it, and also me getting up an hour earlier each month.  I don’t know how early I’ll push it, but 6am seems like a good time.  The page that got me motivated to start makign the most of my day is written by a man who is up and out by  4:30am, but I think that’s a bit extream for me.  He loves sunrises, I do too, but not that much.

And what do I do with all this extra time I now have?  Well, not a lot just yet.  I have a cup of coffee and flick through the over night emails.  This morning I upgraded a wordpress plugin and glaced my work email because stuff was going on late at night.  If I get super motivated, I might start putting my shoes on and going out for a walk (a pre-emptive strike on running) or take the camera out to photograph the world before it gets up.  What I won’t be doing is going back to bed to sleep through the sunniest, quietest bit of the day.

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