become an early riser

i have never been an early riser, but i want to be.

I’ll consider this thing done if I’m able to watch the rising sun for twenty one days in a row…

But still I don’t actually leave the bed until 7 30. I read, or use my laptop, or simply stay in bed. Sometimes it takes me longer. But on the plus side, that means I get up at 7 30 most days. I think the solution is three fold>
1. Follow a PM routine, which I have, but don’t follow. I should put on it read one hour. And start the routine by 8 pm so the chances are increased of me going to bed more or less early.
2. At night leave the computer in the study, not by the bed.
3. Practice waking up as soon as the alarm ring and making the bed. Which requires a change to my am routine.

I stay up too late and waste hours of my days off sleeping. I can’t seem to make myself go to bed at night. I like enjoying the peace and being with myself alone just doing my own thing without anyone watching or talking to me and late night is the time. I’m in demand both at work and at home so my “me time” is important. When it’s work days I haven’t had enough sleep because I stayed up late with myself again. I tell myself I’ll catch up on sleep when I’m off..and I do. And waste the day..again.

Have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, regardless of how much sleep I get. Need to figure out how to do this!

Well hello there. Yes I’m still here and still working towards goal number one.

To be honest I’m here because I lost all the great progress I made somewhere in the last year (or more? How long has it been?)

So much so that my wife has told me – at 1:30am – that she is sick of playing second fiddle to the computers.

Fair cop.

I’ve been missing out on family life in the mornings because of my late night habits, which saddens me greatly. I should be taking my son out for bike rides every morning for starters.

So it begins again. My iPhone alarm is set to 8:03am for every day of the week and that is my goal.

Who’s with me?

Not on this right now. Honestly, getting ENOUGH sleep is my biggest priority at the moment! And perhaps, not getting to bed too terribly late.

Um…. have totally let up on this. I believe semi-coming down with what my mom and step-dad had, is probably due in part to not getting enough sleep.

Interesting how this one tends to curtail, eh?

Whatever happened to the me who was reading Mastery? Maybe I need to pull that out again!

Again, to bed at 12:18 am last night, awoke groggily a little after 8, and it does not feel good!

Interesting, how my intention goes from lots of intention to no intention so quickly. Let’s do 6:30, boys! And go to bed without internet.

Totally off of it now. Not so pleasant, waking up at 8am! Feeling like a bit of a shlub about it.

At the same time, 7 am is not bad, and 6:30 is quite early, while not being nearly so extreme as 5:30 or 5!!! Let’s try for 6:30 tonight, or even 7. Let’s go for stability, rather than insane pushing, on a goal that is really not uber-critical at the moment.