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So this week I’ve been trying mornings. It seemed recently like with all that I had to do, I was working later and later into the evening, then making dinner for my family way too late, and then having a not enjoyable couple hours with my kids. (Then exhausted once it was just me and Jen time… and Cameron…) 🙂
I figured, might it work better if I get up a tad earlier? Why not? I decided to give it a try, and a client of mine forced my hand when an urgent project necessitated a 6:00am meeting on Tuesday morning after Labor Day! Nice!
I agreed to it, and woke up at 5:00am on Tuesday. At 5am, it’s still dark. To me, that is not right. You don’t wake up when it’s dark. But, I went with it.
As I mentioned, my plate is extremely full at the moment, so it was pretty cool getting so much time to get so much done. Problem was, I didn’t stop getting stuff done until after 6pm. Long, tiring day.
Got to bed by 11:15pm that night though, not bad! Second straight night closing my eyes on the post meridian side of the clock!
Next morning, didn’t have to wake up that early, so got up at 6:15am. That’s still early morning! Was still kind of dark. (But better…) Yesterday was no different in the amount of work to be done, but was able to finish up at 5:15pm, slightly earlier. (Of course, on Tuesday we took about a 2 hour break in the middle of the day to celebrate “NOT Back To School Day” as a family… so I may have worked more hours on Wednesday…) Another long day, and this time we headed out for some fun and errands for the evening. Bedtime? Midnight. (Ante meridian this time.)
This morning the alarm clock wasn’t working. 🙂 (It was functioning properly, it just wasn’t accomplishing the task of awakening me!) Ended up realizing it was going off at about 6:30am.
5:00am, 6:15am, 6:30am … not sure that’s going in the right direction, but it’s going.
We’ll see how long I can keep this up. I’d like to try it at least another full week. I’m doing pretty OK with getting at least 6 hours of sleep, but that’s the hardest part. Normal bedtime for me is two or three in the morning. Definitely been an adjustment.
At the moment I feel like I’m burning the candle at both ends… but I am getting stuff done.
Now… back to work! 🙂