Have you heard about the practice called "Hell week"? There is a book about this experience, by Erik Bertrand Larssen (Hell week. Seven Days That Will Change Your Life).
I decided to follow the juiciest thing from it: to start my day at 5 am and finish at 10 pm. Each day.
It was not totally a fresh practice for me as I have yoga classes two times a week at 6-30 am. But there were only two mornings, and with staying up late.
I embarked on this journey on March, 14. So I’ve been on it already for 2,5 weeks and I think this is one of the best decision I’ve made lately.
To say that i am awaiting those early mornings this is not the right word. I craving them. I love going to the street with the dogs while the whole world is still asleep. Can you imagine that? I am like the only one in the planet except of very random cars and maybe one or two people passing by somewhere in the distance.
I am so happy that by the time the day officially is started I wrap up a gazillion things! For example reading or writing in English. My morning journaling routine and the things I’ve never had enough time to do. I listen to the interviews on YouTube which i was looking to, like, forever. I meditate, clean the house, reading Irvin Yalom study book and "The daily stoic" by Ryan Holiday (recommend it) .
I have the sensation that I have all the time in the world. You know. Before that I didn’t let myself go to bed because I had so many things to wind up; so I was starting doing one thing, then dashing to the other, without completing the undone, to have time to finish the other one. And that made be flip out and sometimes I could say to myself a one or two self-deprecating words. A nerve-racking experience, I must admit)
Now I wake up and go to bed with anticipation. This practice makes me calm and more vigorous and lets me achieve all the goals I set up for a day.
Also I don’t know how but it worked also that way — I am not prone to spend my time on nonsensical things which were quite kicking-back before: relentless series watching or scrolling the phone. Such a huge time waster! The time is really precious to me.
You know this adage: early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
So flat-out True!
Join me and have the time of your early morning life with me!