Sure enough, this morning my alarm went off and I was out of bed before I was even fully awake. Last night I thought about my alarm going off, feeling the cold outside the duvet and having an overwhelming desire to roll over and go back to sleep and visualized myself just getting straight out of bed. I've been having a bit of trouble lately sticking to my habit of getting up at 5am to work on my own stuff (open source and writing a book). Inflection points here are those tough spots where you are more vulnerable to regressing to your previous behaviour.
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I'm halfway through the book "The power of habit" at the moment and here's two little titbits I've picked up so far:ġ. I definitely believe that I'm more productive in these 8 hours a day (9 if you include commuting) than I was in the days where I'd be 'working' for 12-14 hours. There's very little email where I work and I keep my distractions in check with willpower and Leechblock (not got long left to post this). The commute in (cycling usually, train sometimes) is where I do the majority of thinking and planning for the day ahead. I got in to the office this morning and within 2 minutes I was programming away where I'd left off the night before. That hard cut-off to the end of my working day is very motivating as I know I don't have any buffer to stay a bit later to finish off something I'd said I'd do by the end of the day.
I have to leave the office at a certain time in order to pick her up from nursery, no chance of running late or getting someone else to do it. Last night my sleep time was determined by same said wriggly 2 year old alarm clock who has a horrible cough/cold combo disrupting her sleep (and ours) throughout most of the night. My wakeup time is determined by a wriggly 2 year old alarm clock that comes in to the bedroom at roughly the same time every morning (~7am) shouting "WAKE UP MUMMY AND DADDY! WHERE'S MY MILK?" (we're working on the pleasantries).
I doubt I'd have the willpower to ever enforce one upon myself but, luckily, I don't have to. Having enforced immovable schedules can be very useful for productivity.
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