Pace is the trick

26 May 2011 1 Comment

by lisacostello in Life

You know the saying “Not a morning person doesn’t even begin to cover it.”?  Yeah, that’s always been me.

So imagine my surprise when I suddenly became a morning person, and am actually enjoying it.

It all came about originally as a concession to my work schedule.  I had a change of management at work recently and my delightful nearly full-time telework schedule switched over to needing to be in the office two days a week.  The days that I go into the office I get up at 4:45.  Yes, that’s oh:dark:thirty in the morning.  I struggled for a while with keeping two different schedules–the “in the office” one and the “working from home” one, but quickly realized that simply wasn’t going to work, for so many reasons.

So a couple of weeks ago, on one of my work from home days, I simply decided to get up closer to the time I would when I commute.

It’s been an amazing change. All of the sudden, I had tons of time in the morning in which to meditate, exercise, write, think, be.   I no longer have that extreme existential pang upon waking on my commuting days.  I’m just getting up on time.  If I get to the end of my workday (with or without a commute) and I’m too tired to do anything useful, it doesn’t matter, because chances are I’ve already done something worthwhile with  my day other than work.  I no longer feel like I’m doing nothing but work–and that’s highly important to me, since I’m so unhappy at my job.

The change has done wonders for my eating program, since now my all meal timings are way more precise, instead of lunch & dinner being at the same time each day and breakfast being whatever time I get up.

I’m having a harder time with the need to go to bed at a reasonable time.  I love staying up until midnight, but that’s just not realistic for me anymore.

And that’s OK.

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