Mission failed, we’ll get em next time…
Okay so waking up early on a regular basis seems to have been a monumental failure. I’m not even sure why right now. There’s been a few days in recent weeks where I’ve not been up and about until at least 13:00. Some of those days I’ve stayed up late and others I’ve been in bed at a standard time. I still have alarm set for most mornings at 7:00 and to be fair some days I have been up at 7:00. The only days I’ve been guaranteed to be up early are for morning shifts at work. this makes me think it’s not that I can’t get up it’s that I don’t feel the need to . I’m not working on anything, I’m not required to be anywhere, therefore there’s no reason for me to be up early.
So now, the solution. Pick a project to work on, make sure I give myself artificial deadlines to meet so that there’s some sense of urgency to work on something. I’ll probably make a dedicated post about artificial deadlines and how I use them since I think I rely on them heavily as I’m very prone to time wasting when I don’t have any immediate deadlines.
Having a reason to wake up early is just one aspect that I think may be the cause. Having a consistent bed time is also a likely culprit. Going to sleep is just as important as waking up and one can’t be successful without the other. I’ve tracked my sleep using the Android app “Sleep as Android” in the past and according to my sleep ratings, bedtimes, wake up times and whatever else they use to calculate it, I should be sleeping for around 7-8 hours which is pretty standard for someone of my age. So for now, with an alarm set for 7:00 ideally I should be asleep by midnight at the latest. Most nights I do seem to be doing this which basically means I’ve been oversleeping. This is what irritates me most since I know I can easily function on my 7 hours and sometimes less so why do I without fail manage to fall asleep after my alarm and wake up 3 hours later. I even use a QR code at the opposite end of the bedroom to make me get out of bed to turn off the alarm.
I know that motivation doesn’t really exist, it’s all about discipline, so my aim is not to be more motivated but to maintain discipline over my sleeping patterns. This should also lead to discipline forming in other areas since my time is better managed and my days start more productively, at least that’s the idea.
Also surprisingly enough I don’t have any pictures of me sleeping so enjoy a picture of my dog sleeping instead.
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