{"id":3481,"date":"2012-10-05T17:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:42:54","slug":"waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2012\/personal\/waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Waking up Early &#8211; a New Habit of Mine :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read that some people are night owls and others are morning people. For the past 22 years, I&#8217;ve always considered myself to belong to the former category. I\u00a0<em>hate<\/em> waking up early. Hate, hate, hate. I never sleep better than after slamming the damn alarm clock, and going to bed again nestled in warm blankets :). As a kid, my mother used to wake me up early for studies. I would delay in bed till she had to pretty much drag me out. Then I would lay out the towel on the bathroom floor and go to sleep for another few precious minutes!<\/p>\n<p>When I started freelancing, I gave up early mornings forever. There was no need in the world for me to sleep less. And for four years I did just that. I woke up nice and late. 10:00 am was my waking time and by the time I started work, it would be 12:30 pm. I would go to sleep at around 2:00 in the morning. And so the cycle continued. This had some unpleasant effects. For example on weekends Anupa would like to have breakfast together, but I wouldn&#8217;t be up and ready till around 1:00 pm. Plus there&#8217;s no denying that being awake early in the day\u00a0<em>does<\/em> make you feel better in a strange sort of way. You get the feeling that you have the whole day ahead of you&#8230;you know how it is.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2012\/personal\/how-i-learned-to-stick-to-my-resolutions.html\/\">began using a calendar tick sytem<\/a> for sticking to my resolutions. Since then, I&#8217;ve developed a number of new habits that I&#8217;ve been able to keep up for months altogether. Such as:<\/p>\n<p>Working on my blog everyday<br \/>\nProgramming daily<br \/>\nMeditation daily<\/p>\n<p>A month ago I decided to add a new habit &#8211; waking up early. Like every other late sleeper, I&#8217;ve tried this before only to fall back again. But I was hoping that my new system of crossing off days on a calendar would keep me motivated enough to carry on long enough for it to become a habit. So for every day that I woke up early, I&#8217;d mark it with a big red cross. The resulting line of crosses makes me feel good and pushes me to keep the line unbroken. After a few days, it gives me satisfaction to see the progress I&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<p>I started on the 22nd of August. I first woke up at 9, then 8 and after a few days I started rising at 7 am. I also adjusted my sleeping time from 2:00 am to 11:00 pm. And here is my set of crosses for all of September:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3490\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3490 \" title=\"Waking up Early in September\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155.jpg\" alt=\"Waking up Early in September\" width=\"408\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155-400x461.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waking up Early in September<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pretty impressive for a self confessed late riser huh? :D I&#8217;m enjoying my new schedule &#8211; finishing up work by 11 am and then having a lot of sunlight left. The change is mostly psychological. The total amount of time I spend awake and sleeping is still the same.<\/p>\n<p>One more good habit formed :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using my earlier calendar system, I changed myself from a night owl to an early riser!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waking up Early - a New Habit of Mine :)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Using my earlier calendar system, I changed myself from a night owl to an early riser!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2012\/personal\/waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waking up Early - a New Habit of Mine :)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Using my earlier calendar system, I changed myself from a night owl to an early riser!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2012\/personal\/waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Expressions - Bhagwad Jal Park\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-10-05T11:42:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121004_073155.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"408\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"471\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"bhagwad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bhagwad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bhagwad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"bhagwad\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bhagwad.com\\\/blog\\\/2012\\\/personal\\\/waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine.html\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bhagwad.com\\\/blog\\\/2012\\\/personal\\\/waking-up-early-a-new-habit-of-mine.html\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"bhagwad\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bhagwad.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/06c9c710885b810f1dfe3779fc346b23\"},\"headline\":\"Waking up Early &#8211; 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