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Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-21 03:50:48
April 13 2012 14:58 GMT
#1

05:45. That's what the clock read when I woke up this morning. The day before? 08:03. More than a two hour difference in just a day. What prompted the sudden, voluntary change?

Those of you following this blog would know that for the past few months, I have been experimenting with waking early to write each day. With respect to writing, I have been more successful than I had expected; with respect to waking early, the results have been mixed. The stated goal had been to rise each morning at 07:00, but the reality has been closer to 08:00. Once I was conscious of the reality that I could wake at 08:00, write a short essay, and still make it to work at an acceptable hour, my ability to become alert at 07:00 vanished.

Over the past few days, I had been pondering a more permanent shift in my daily routine, where I would add to the tasks performed in the morning. It was clear to me that my mind would be rather incapacitated in the evening, so I reasoned that other personal endeavors such as reading or coding should be moved to the morning as well, where my mind is quickest. With this inner conviction, I managed to squeak out a few pages here and there in the mornings, but no great change came to be.

So again, why the sudden change?

If the door doesn't open after pushing with all your might, we might as well try pulling at it gently. If all the preparation (sleeping early, eating well, fitness, etc.) and the extrinsic motivators (ambition, success, tangible goals, etc.) fail, then it may be time to try something new: something more internal.

Last night, I ran across this line while reading:

Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself. None of it lay fallow and neglected, none of it under another's control; for being an extremely thrify guardian of his time he never found anything for which it was worth exchanging. So he had enough time; but those into whose lives the public have made great inroads inevitably have too little.

Seneca

Just a small, internal epiphany: a small reason to treat the morning hours preciously, and refuse to give it away to the Baku. Those words are the string to which all my previous meanderings have crystallized: something that all the cliches in the world (life is short) could not do.

The straw that broke the camel's back; the ant that broke the dam. It often doesn't take much for us to make breakthroughs (especially if we've set the stage for the final straw).






Crossposted from my main blog

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mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
April 13 2012 15:02 GMT
#2
this is awesome actually, I'm so shitty at getting up, I really like this a lot
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KNICK
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Germany248 Posts
April 13 2012 15:20 GMT
#3
I honestly thought this would be a World War II blog.

Also, props to you for doing that, I probably couldn't. I'm not a morning person at all and every time I've tried to change my sleep schedule to wake up a little earlier, I was back to the usual in about 2-3 days.
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ApocAlypsE007
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Israel1007 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 15:58:02
April 13 2012 15:57 GMT
#4
You know that you played too much SC2 when you read the title 5:45 and think 4gate
I'm playing the game, the one that will take me to my end, i'm waiting for the rain, TO WASH-- WHO I AM!!!
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
April 13 2012 15:58 GMT
#5
I like how you share your epiphanies, but you ever feel like one of the lines in this xkcd comic?
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Like I feel like having epiphanies will never let me become like mightyatom no matter how hard I try. I'll just realize that I should go to bed earlier, do it for two weeks, then move on to my next epiphany.

I think it's really important to make sure that you don't take any steps backwards if you really want to improve.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
netherh
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom333 Posts
April 13 2012 16:25 GMT
#6
On April 14 2012 00:57 ApocAlypsE007 wrote:
You know that you played too much SC2 when you read the title 5:45 and think 4gate


Yeah. I thought he'd forgotten to start combat shields or something.
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
April 13 2012 16:31 GMT
#7
On April 14 2012 00:57 ApocAlypsE007 wrote:
You know that you played too much SC2 when you read the title 5:45 and think 4gate


more like korean 4 gate^^
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surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
April 13 2012 18:36 GMT
#8
Well, I'd love to congratulate you but to be honest, I feel it's a little early. Don't you think? How many people have had that one life-changing epiphany, have made that one life-changing step for the better? I myself have smoked several last cigarettes in my life and know quite a few people who are still smoking their last one every other month. I've been changing my diet for the last two months and I know how hard it is to keep up and how easy it is to give up. These steps we take for our self-improvement are important but difficult and I hope that you'll succeed. But do it for a month at least, then we'll talk.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
April 14 2012 04:11 GMT
#9
On April 14 2012 03:36 surfinbird1 wrote:
Well, I'd love to congratulate you but to be honest, I feel it's a little early. Don't you think? How many people have had that one life-changing epiphany, have made that one life-changing step for the better? I myself have smoked several last cigarettes in my life and know quite a few people who are still smoking their last one every other month. I've been changing my diet for the last two months and I know how hard it is to keep up and how easy it is to give up. These steps we take for our self-improvement are important but difficult and I hope that you'll succeed. But do it for a month at least, then we'll talk.


haha definitely. But considering I Couldn't even get to this point earlier, it's encouraging
Zariel
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Australia1285 Posts
April 14 2012 04:48 GMT
#10
TBH, I find waking up early it makes my day seem that much longer. Theres a huge difference between waking up at 8am and 11am. I know it's only 3 hours but those 3 hours you could get a shitload of stuff done such as your laundry, house chores, and more starcraft.

However, I've been longing for a day that I could sleep for 12 hours, it's a dream for me.... really.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
April 14 2012 17:37 GMT
#11
On April 14 2012 13:48 Zariel wrote:
TBH, I find waking up early it makes my day seem that much longer. Theres a huge difference between waking up at 8am and 11am. I know it's only 3 hours but those 3 hours you could get a shitload of stuff done such as your laundry, house chores, and more starcraft.

However, I've been longing for a day that I could sleep for 12 hours, it's a dream for me.... really.

haha definitely. I feel like an entire day has passed by 2pm if I wake up early on a weekend
BrTarolg
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom3574 Posts
April 14 2012 20:26 GMT
#12
I wake up at 5:30 every day for work

You get used to it pretty quickly

I usually goto sleep like 10:00 or 10:30

On weekdays cause i get home at 7:30 i feel like i don't have any time for myself, but in reality i still got a few hours and i don't do much on weekends
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