Ryanware

It’s time to put the goal aside until further notice. I have decided that I like getting up early, but going to bed at 10 is not going to work. Going to bed when I’m tired and waking up early will work though and I’m planning on sticking with it. Checking my e-mail and staying away from forums until 7PM is a little extreme when I wake up so early. Not checking until 2-4 PM is a bit better.

I never thought I’d say it, but it actually is possible for me to be a morning person. I still doubt it’ll ever be easy, but it IS worth it and it IS possible.

If I can do it, anyone can. Seriously.

Last week I said I was going to start going to bed early, waking up early, and change my e-mail and forum habits. I also said I’d post on Monday’s about how I was doing with it. Well now that it’s Tuesday I figured I might want to do that.

Overall it’s going very well, considering how hard it has always been for me to wake up early. I must admit though that going to bed early really makes it a lot easier. What a concept!

Wednesday ended up getting messed up. The reason for this being that one of the local lindy hoppers (swing dancers) was assigned to go to Iraq on Saturday. He was originally going to go in a few weeks and we were planning a going away dance for him. So when his leave date was moved up suddenly so was the going away dance. So I drove an hour and a half to dance for about the same amount of time and then drive home again. I got home at 1 AM. I was so tired. I don’t think I managed to get up on time, but I don’t remember what time it was anymore that I actually got up.

I also stayed up late Saturday watching a movie* and slept in a little later on Sunday morning. That was my own fault though, with no excuses.

I think I’m doing pretty good so far.

* Don’t ever rent “Westender”. My friend and I rented it, only to stop it after 15 minutes. We then watched “Regarding Henry” with Harrison Ford. That was pretty good.

After reading Steve Pavlina’s 30 Days to Success I’ve decided to do a 30 day trial of my own.

For the next 30 days I am going to:

* Go to bed before 10 PM each night, before midnight Thurs-Sat.
* Wake up by 5:30 AM each morning, 7 AM on Saturday.
* Give up e-mail until after 7 PM.
* Give up forums until after 7 PM.

I will post updates on here about how I’m doing with these things once a week.

Crap, I just realized that the going to bed and waking up are going to be thrown completely out of whack by the Denver Lindy Exchange at the beginning of June (lots of swing dancing for a weekend, including dancing until 4+ AM). I’ll just have to pick it back up after I get back. So maybe I should say this is a 24 day trial. Then, I imagine I’ll have to do another 30 day trial to get back into the habit, if I end really wanting to keep doing these things.