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What I love about Wednesday's Whetting:
What I love about Wednesday's Whetting:
- It forces me to make goals and be accountable to them
- It usually only lasts a week
What I do NOT love about Wednesday's Whetting:
- The name
- It usually only lasts a week
MY CHALLENGE:
Get myself out of bed early in the morning. Of my OWN accord.
Early, for the sake of this challenge, means 5:30 a.m.
(Weekends by 7 a.m.)
I know, I know - I've done this one before, but I plan to do this for 10 weeks. TEN WEEKS people. I have not gotten out of bed before I absolutely had to, for even ten collective weeks of my entire life.Get myself out of bed early in the morning. Of my OWN accord.
Early, for the sake of this challenge, means 5:30 a.m.
(Weekends by 7 a.m.)
I love my bed, I hate to leave it. It's cozy, it's warm, it facilitates all sorts of idle and fantastic dreams (waking and sleeping).
But I need that early start, it really sets the mood for the day. (Or so I've heard). My whole life I have struggled with this and have thoroughly convinced myself that my life would be so much better, that I would be a distinctly and wholly better human being simply by becoming an early riser.
Then. I had an epiphany.
Okay, it was more like a paradigm shift.
**I don't want to get too carried away**
This thought occurred to me:
Okay, it was more like a paradigm shift.
**I don't want to get too carried away**
This thought occurred to me:
Why do I choose to believe this? After all, it may not even be true.
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- For all I know, all these early to bed, early to rise propagators may just be blowing smoke!
- It's also been said that, misery loves company. I'm suspicious of these so-called morning people...
- How will I actually know how true these claims are, unless I try it out myself for a while....hmmm.
- For years I have felt lazy, slothful, platitudinous -and maybe, just maybe, these feelings are in fact UNJUSTIFIED (insert hopeful gasp here). See where I'm going with this? I'm not looking to change my ways, I'm looking to justify my behavior!!! This is so unbelievably thrilling to me, I'm actually looking forward to this challenge!
It is the only way I can go back to my old ways guilt free. If, in 10 weeks time, I am not healthier, wealthier and/or wiser - I will, once again, let the outside forces of mandate determine when I beat the sheets.
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...{See you at O-5:30}...
3 comments:
I too am not a morning person.... Absolutly hate waking up at the butt crack of dawn.... Nathan manages to wake me up every morning at 5:30 to get himself ready and I never get back to sleep. Instead of being productive I lay in bed and hope to fall back to sleep... never can though. I much more a determined night person. :o) Good luck!
I too believe that somehow I would be a better person if I got up earlier. But I have recently given up the fight. I'll let you experiment for the both of us. :)
Ok Melis. You know I love you right? But I just don't know if we can be friends anymore. You are making me look bad. Waking up at the butt crack of dawn is not my idea of a good time. I am all for the motivated girl - but only if I LOOK better than that girl.
We really need to discuss our friendship.... ;)
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