Okay so it’s currently about 1 in the morning and for some reason I’m typing rather than sleeping. For some reason my sleep schedule has been butchered the past couple of weeks and I haven’t been able to maintain any sort of consistency. This has been extremely irritating since before this I had been managing to keep myself in check with relatively acceptable bed times and being awake by around 8:00. It has been my intention to slowly work towards becoming a morning person, and in my defence, after working a few months worth of 6 and 7 ‘o’ clock starts at work, waking up early really didn’t seem too bad. I quite enjoyed getting a solid chunk of work done in the morning and then basically forgetting that I had been in work at all. But now it’s all down the pan. I know how to fix it, but I also kind of don’t care enough to try? Does it really matter when the work gets done? As long as it gets done?
I suppose a lot of the ideas about productivity requiring a 5:00 start and 10 mugs of coffee come from the research that says that you are generally a more effective worker early in the morning. I think overall this is likely true, however sometimes, breaking the pattern doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to somehow become less productive. I however do appear to have become less productive. By waking up later I feel like I’ve fallen at the first hurdle. I still have an alarm set for early in the morning, so by turning it off and waking up again 2 hours later, it just annoys me. It’s not a particularly conscious decision, turning off the alarm and going back to sleep but more of an automatic response. And due to it’s consistency it’s now becoming a habit, and everyone knows that habits not only hard to make but hard to break. So, This is me holding myself accountable. I’ve decided that I’m getting up at a decent time again. Hopefully the fact it’s written down somewhere increases my chances of sticking to it.
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