Early To Bed, Early To Rise
December 1, 2006
Today I started my first 30 day trial: every day this month I am going to get up at 5am. I hope it gets easier than it was today!
I usually get up between 6:00 and 6:30 (okay, some days maybe more like 7:00-7:30) which I can do without an alarm. That doesn’t leave much time to get anything done before I need to get out the door to work. And by the time the kids are in bed and the evening chores are finished I’m usually too braindead to get much done at the end of the day either. So this trial (and let me tell you, at 5am this morning it sure felt like a trial) is an attempt to find some additional productive time. Not just productive time but quiet time, where I can think about stuff like what I want to be when I grow up, without The Youngest climbing up my back.
The first morning went well and has me encouraged. I knocked off some household chores, exercised, and even meditated for fifteen minutes and still got off to work at about the same time. On the weekends I plan to skip the chores, jump right on the computer, and spend a couple of hours building my business before the kids get up. If all goes well I could add 50% to the amount of time I’m spending now.
Hopefully I don’t fall asleep during dinner.
December 9, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[...] I spent the morning working on my plan for the first quarter of 2007. This is the first time that I have tried to make a formal plan like this, and I am impressed with the results. As per my 30 day trial, I dragged myself out of bed at 5am (actually closer to 5:30 by the time I worked up the will to drag myself out from under the covers…it is cold) and hopped onto the laptop. I created a blank page on started with: By April 1st, 2007? What can I do? What should I do? What do I want to do? What must I do? [...]