ruthminkov
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Early to bed, early to rise
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Week 2 of 2
ruthminkov commits to:
Going to bed before 9pm at least 5 days a week. Getting up before 6:30am at least 5 days a week.
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 ruthminkov
May 12, 2015, 10:25 PM
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| Yo bitchez. I'm writing a blog post on tips for the long sleeper... stay tuned, audience of 0! :))) | |
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ruthminkov
May 3, 2015, 7:12 AM
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| Also... it's really hard to set small goals. Hard on the brittle olde ego, I think. Ahh well. | |
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ruthminkov
May 3, 2015, 7:11 AM
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I have so far figured out that: - When I'm really, really tired, I tend to go to bed later. Paradoxical. I think this is because I get a swarmy feeling inside my head, and I can't grab hold of anything concrete, so I feel out of control, and so I am compelled to organise and complete tasks in order to gain back some order. However, it has the opposite effect than intended. - Whatever limits I set for myself, those are the ones I will push. Some advocate setting goals that are "so small they take virtually no effort to achieve". Whilst I agree with the sentiment, my brain certainly isn't "tricked" into thinking that one step is all I need to take. I don't gain a sense of achievement from these tiny tasks... because I feel like anybody could do them. Gradually, whatever small but consistent task I have set for myself becomes "normal", and pushing beyond that becomes very difficult. In relation to my "Early to bed, early to rise" goal: My ultimate goal is to rise around 5:15am, and get to bed around 8:00pm (for sleep at 8:30pm). Since that was my desired "norm", I would feel absolutely terrible when I would wake up at 5:15am, then go back to sleep, get woken up by further alarms, and end up getting out of bed at 7 or 8. Now that I have set this more "achievable" goal, I find myself treating this as the norm... so that, rather than thinking "oh, I need to go to bed now, it's getting toward 8", I think, "I've got plenty of time! I only have to get up before 6:30am!" This is an annoying cognitive error, and one that I would like to alter. - People will not prevent you from going to bed early quite so much when you tell them you have to go to bed now or you'll be donating to the NRA. |
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ruthminkov
April 30, 2015, 8:33 PM
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| Snowball is unsupportive of my efforts... | |
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