WAKING UP AT 5AM
I’ve made no secret of my recent lull in energy and mood. I was ill throughout February and this past week the dreaded Covid finally caught me - so it’s not been made easier by HEALTH, but I’ve decided that APRIL WILL BE DIFFERENT!
I was watching some YouTube videos while cleaning my office yesterday and the algorithm played me 2 or 3 ‘morning routines’ in a row. This isn’t usually content I’d search for as it tends to be wildly unrealistic to my life, but I had a bit of an Aha moment. I am as independent as I’ve ever been in my adult life, right now.
I have never not been a parent. Pregnant at 18 is another blog post but you get the picture, I haven’t ever had only myself to consider.
I’ve read about these early morning routines in the past, but it just didn’t fit in with my life. When you can’t sleep (small children) the last thing you need is a self imposed 5am start. Then my parents lived with us and if I were to get up at that ungodly hour I would definitely have disturbed their dog - and that was as much justification to stay in bed as I needed.
While cleaning the office yesterday I realised that my children (now 10 and 16) aren’t going to need me at 5am, our dog barely acknowledges my presence if I enter his sanctuary in the dead of night and so my only issue was my husband. I honestly thought I could get him on board with the experiment cause he’s an earlier riser than me to begin with and has often said he’d prefer to get his work out in before his drive to the office.
He was initially on board but soon fell back to ‘maybe 6.30’ while giving me his blessing to set an alarm for 5.
And so here I am, it’s 6.13 on day 1. I haven’t been incredibly productive, but I’ve had my coffee at a leisurely pace, I’ve made my to do list, made a playlist (okay - this could have been procrastinating - I didn’t realise I’d do that at 5am too) and WRITTEN A BLOG POST - surely I get points for that last one?
I’ve been really enjoying a certain podcast recently by some girls who still maintain a blog and it’s inspired me to keep updating here. It does feel like blogging is dead but every time I start writing something new I miss it - we’ll see.
The general premise is that you’re finding extra hours in your day to develop yourself, your business, whatever it is you’d like to improve but feel you have no time for. Spring is just around the corner, the clocks are going forward (which I think makes this a terrible time to try this?!) but I feel like this is the perfect window to finally give this miracle morning thing a go.
I’ll keep you updated in a very fair-weather diary format here and probably in vlogs - mostly because it will hold me accountable. If I’ve told you I’m doing it, someone will ask about it.. and it’s just embarrassing to give up after a day, isn’t it?