Action Always Generates Inspiration. Inspiration Seldom Generates Action.

location: my office

mood: hopeful

music: 'Learnt My Lesson Well' by Kaiser Chiefs

I thought this week would be a good one to attempt getting to bed by 10 o'clock every night. And thus far, it's been successful, or at least, relatively successful, with me upstairs and in my bedroom by the allotted time, and usually with me asleep within 15 to 20 minutes. But my body is so used to only getting six hours of sleep (read, I usually go to bed at midnight and wake up sometime around 6:30). Which means that just about every night this week (with the exception of this morning), my body automatically wakes me up around 4:30. Usually telling me I need to go to the bathroom (because that's typically what wakes me up in the morning anyway). I don't really mind it too much, because it just means that I still have two entire hours left where I can close my eyes and continue to rest. I didn't wake up last night, but I believe that's because of feeling off-kilter yesterday.

But of course, it was upon waking up this morning that I won't be able to finish this week, as for one thing, I usually don't get home until 10 o'clock on Wednesdays. That can be readjusted to fit my schedule accordingly, as I can always leave early, not go to the grocery store, etc. The other reason this weeks wouldn't work is because it's kind of hard when you, without thinking about the logistics of it, schedule a meeting for 9:30 p.m. on Friday night. *shakes head* What was I thinking?

The other good news is that, albeit the getting to bed at 10 o'clock isn't working this week, thus far, I've been good about getting up every morning when my alarm clock goes off. I am allowing myself just a few minutes of give in between the two alarm clocks that I have in my room. One of them is set to go off over my head, and I allow myself one hit for that. I have it set to go off one minute before the second one goes off, which is across the room, and the alarm over my head is my signal that the time to force myself to get out of bed is coming.

I hadn't realized just how hard it would be to force myself to stay out of my bed once I got out of it. Right now, I'm getting up at 6:45, but I'm hoping to push that back to 6:30, so that I can have more time to myself in the morning, and so I don't have to feel rushed about getting in to work. That's yet another one I have to try and tackle - getting in to work 15 minutes early. But I figure that, rather than trying to attempt all of these at once, if I take them one at a time, and build them into habits (which was the whole point of writing those goals as I did), then I'll gradually be able to have them all in there. Already, I've built water-consumption and washing my face back into my daily routine. If I can do that, then I guess I can get these things going, right?