The Making of a Morning Person (Day 21)

I’ll cut to the chase: my 5am plan is out the window. I take full responsibility for this breakdown in self-discipline, but in my defense, it’s hard to restructure your morning routine while you’re starting to date somebody new: evenings are unpredictable, bed times are consistently late, and if there is a sleepover,

it’s not cool (or enjoyable) to wiggle out of bed at 5am, even if she could forgive the annoyance of the alarm.

Two beneficial side effects have come out of this attempt:

1. My base wake time has moved back by an hour, and I comfortably (and often automatically) get out of bed by 6am.
2. I have an entirely new intimacy with my alarm clock. I now understand how the Nap function and the Snooze timer work. And oh how I use them.

When my schedule settles down a bit more

I think it will be very easy to push my wake time back by another hour. I find that I am very tired at 5am, and cannot fight my urge to snooze. The few times I did manage to stay up, I really enjoyed having the quiet bubble of time before the day started.