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mousmeOkay, so getting up this morning wasn't quite so much of a struggle as it usually is. I still got up half an hour later than I normally would, but that's better than forty-five minutes later. If I get up at seven o'clock, I can still get all my shit together in time for work and not have to run like a mad running thing.
I prefer to get up at 6:30, because that gives me an extra half hour to not freak out and forget things and get all stressed if something goes wrong because I don't have time for things to go wrong. However, 7:00 is infinitely preferable to 7:15, as I have to be out of the house by 7:45 or 7:50 at the very latest in order not to be late for work.
I didn't get to bed early last night. I managed an 11:00 pm bedtime, which isn't bad, but I don't consider it early. I got back late from the retirement party (and who the hell knew that St-Hubert was so damned expensive these days? Honestly, $20 for a drumstick, a drink and a dessert is not my idea of cheap), because the computer system was having issues processing my tab. I was sorely tempted to just leave without paying after waiting for nearly half an hour, but my sense of civic duty intervened.
Have been reading First Things First that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ai731 lent me yesterday, and it looks like there are some very good things to be taken from it. Shall be taking notes, in any event.
This week my goal is to reduce sleep-deprivation. So far so good, I think. I’m really going to catch up over the weekend (I hope), but the long-term goal is to not keep horrendous bedtime hours the way I have been. I just do not function well on less than eight hours of sleep a night, and really, if I'm entirely honest with myself, I work best with nine to ten hours' sleep in my system. Yes, that means that there are fewer hours in the waking day in which to get things done, but I don’t think that necessarily translates into more stuff getting done when I sleep less. There's a lot to be said for efficiency when one is working with an optimal amount of sleep.
Eventually, I shall incorporate other healthy-type goals in my time. However, changing habits one at a time seems like the way to go. I'm not eating entirely unhealthy stuff these days, but obviously I could be paying a lot more attention to what I eat. Same goes for exercise. I'm doing my dancing thing three, sometimes four times a week, although part of that is simply spent standing behind a counter when I'm volunteering. Dancing is pretty good exercise, but what I'm doing is not really enough to get into better shape.
So, that makes two other goals to think about in the near-to-middling future. There are probably lots of others, but I’m not going to try to change everything at once. That usually just spells crash-and-burn for me.
Look at me, being all reasonable and shit. Whodathunkit?
I prefer to get up at 6:30, because that gives me an extra half hour to not freak out and forget things and get all stressed if something goes wrong because I don't have time for things to go wrong. However, 7:00 is infinitely preferable to 7:15, as I have to be out of the house by 7:45 or 7:50 at the very latest in order not to be late for work.
I didn't get to bed early last night. I managed an 11:00 pm bedtime, which isn't bad, but I don't consider it early. I got back late from the retirement party (and who the hell knew that St-Hubert was so damned expensive these days? Honestly, $20 for a drumstick, a drink and a dessert is not my idea of cheap), because the computer system was having issues processing my tab. I was sorely tempted to just leave without paying after waiting for nearly half an hour, but my sense of civic duty intervened.
Have been reading First Things First that
ai731 lent me yesterday, and it looks like there are some very good things to be taken from it. Shall be taking notes, in any event.This week my goal is to reduce sleep-deprivation. So far so good, I think. I’m really going to catch up over the weekend (I hope), but the long-term goal is to not keep horrendous bedtime hours the way I have been. I just do not function well on less than eight hours of sleep a night, and really, if I'm entirely honest with myself, I work best with nine to ten hours' sleep in my system. Yes, that means that there are fewer hours in the waking day in which to get things done, but I don’t think that necessarily translates into more stuff getting done when I sleep less. There's a lot to be said for efficiency when one is working with an optimal amount of sleep.
Eventually, I shall incorporate other healthy-type goals in my time. However, changing habits one at a time seems like the way to go. I'm not eating entirely unhealthy stuff these days, but obviously I could be paying a lot more attention to what I eat. Same goes for exercise. I'm doing my dancing thing three, sometimes four times a week, although part of that is simply spent standing behind a counter when I'm volunteering. Dancing is pretty good exercise, but what I'm doing is not really enough to get into better shape.
So, that makes two other goals to think about in the near-to-middling future. There are probably lots of others, but I’m not going to try to change everything at once. That usually just spells crash-and-burn for me.
Look at me, being all reasonable and shit. Whodathunkit?
