I am a night owl by nature.
When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I'd be up past midnight (on a school night) reading books by flashlight in my room (until Mom came in and yelled for me to go to bed). In high school, I often stayed up past 2AM just watching TV... and typically much later if I were hanging with friends. In college, I usually didn't fall asleep until shortly before dawn.
Sure, joining the workforce forced me to bed early--to an extent. But, for the most part, I continued to stay awake late and sleep as late as possible. Even now, although my kids wake me very early most days, I have nights when I'm still awake at 1 AM.
As a result, I sleep in as late as possible. Or I catch a nap on the couch whenever I can.
However, I'd like to find out if I can actually become an early riser, stay awake throughout the day, and generally be more productive. If I could just get up by 6 am, I would be able to at least exercise every day. And, some days, I might even be able to get a little writing done, too.
To someone who's used to going to bed only a few hours before this time, this sounds... impossible.
But I'm going to try, dammit.
So I'm going to try an Early Riser Experiment. The first thing I'm going to do is utilize an app on my phone. It's an alarm clock, but it forces you to do math problems to turn off the alarm. Maybe this will wake me up enough to get me moving in the morning.
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I find this extremely painful...I am not a morning person, just the thought of doing math problems before coffee! Before noon! Why are you doing this? I am most productive after the minions are all asleep!
I'm up at 10 til 6 Mon-Fri and no later than 7 on Weekends. I must admit that I'd like to sleep later, but I DO accomplish a whole lot more.
Texan: If I wait to exercise until evening, it'll never happen. I'm just too lazy by that point. I'm hoping that rising early will help me get in a workout.
Andrea: I wish I could get up that early! You probably do get a lot done during the day!
I get up early out of necessity not because I want to, however I do function better in the morning.
I blog in the morning as I think better then (anything written later in the day is very bad) however I don't move very fast then. I would love to stay up late but sleep takes over.
Maybe when our son has left school things will improve, but I have a while to wait for that:)
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