onday
Missed three alarm clocks — seeing a pattern here?, but still up bright and early
9:30
(To the sound of clapping hands in the back of my head). This might seem normal for most people, or even half an hour late, but I get to the office bang on 930 — the earliest I’ve got here for a very long time.
10:15
I am realising just how difficult that is. Looking through my notes over the last few days, I might have enjoyed almost a week now, stable mood, but I’ve overslept three times in a row. Hitting the alarm clock and going straight back to bed is one thing, but I have no recollection or even hearing alarm clocks this morning. I had the same problem on Saturday morning. How can alarm clocks make so much noise, but not get heard?
Somehow, I managed to awake naturally at 8:40, and decided I’d give myself five minutes together, rather than trying to go back to sleep again, and accepting defeat. I might have set a target to get to the office for nine, but 9:30 would still be perfectly respectable. I try to take him a little bit of what Tony Robbins had to say about diet. I don’t think it’s so easy to cut out everything he says, should be got rid of — after all, that includes all meat and dairy products, not to mention a few other things, which should be used to replace these daily staples! Taking his advice of eating lots of fruit, and starting the day with nothing other than fruit, seems to be a lot easier, so our glass of orange juice first thing, and have already gone through a a punnet each of raspberries and black berries. I know that Subway will be calling, but even their so-called veggie delight contains two of the big no-no’s — cheese and bread. I don’t know if it really can be remotely realistic to eat such a restricted diet, but I’m sure there can be some big benefits and making a few small changes. I just have so much more research to do to get a full understanding of what really is the best food to eat, especially as there’s so much conflicting information out there. One thing I do know is that getting food intake right isn’t just about maintaining a good physical shape, eating properly really should help me feel a great deal better in the mornings, and this is so key for the rest of the day.
4:24
It looks like any fears about getting up without are fully solid night’s sleep or unfounded. Yes, I was getting a bit tired. By mid-morning, but I soon perked up after a sandwich and a caffeinated soft drink. I’ve managed to breeze through around 4000 words of content, so I’m just shy of my 5000 word target, it should be able to complete this and still be on the way by about 5:30. This really will be an exemplary day, and exactly what I’m trying to achieve every work day from now on. How difficult will this be to keep up?
4:30
All this might seem like a big fuss about nothing, but I have bought myself down with so many irrelevant details before, and got so worked up about little trifles, that it is better to continue noting down which small changes help, and which do not, however insignificant they might seem. The whole day can stand or fall on the slightest distraction, so it is important to keep everything as focused as possible. About 10 minutes ago, the computer crashed, in a way which I’ve only seen it do once before. I didn’t get it a chance to note down the full nature of the error, but I run a few diagnostics, and I think seems to be wrong. I hope it doesn’t occur again soon, although I have been having some problems with this voice recognition software, and it could start to get irritating, and this is the linchpin of my attempts to stay on track.
My trip to the market was pretty successful, I managed to pick up loads of fruit and veg, and my mind myself, that in these times of high inflation, there is such good value out there in that market, if I can just get into a good enough routine to go there more regularly.