Waking in Darkness
There’s a feeling of comfort when you know you’re awake before everyone else.
The advantage comes from the uninterrupted moments. No calls from coworkers, emails from clients, or interruptions to my morning routine.
The easiest excuse I’ve found with not getting out of bed each day stems from not having a plan of execution that morning. Therefore, the night before I will layout the key goals I have for the day. Next, I layout the clothes I’ll be wearing and set the coffee for 5 minutes prior to my alarm.
Failing to plan is planning to fail or so folks say. But they aren’t wrong. When I originally set out to get up this early in the morning I failed. Drastically. It tooks me the better part of 6 months to iron out this habit and guess what? I still finding myself creating excuses as to why I cannot or should not get up and out of bed that early. So what do I do? I get out of bed anyways. I pull myself together and get my coffee. Some mornings I sit on the corner of my bed for 10-15 minutes trying to convince myself to get back into those warm covers. But not today, tomorrow I’ll take a break I tell myself.
Progress is hard. Discipline is harder.
Sometimes you have to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, am I really working at capacity? Or am I holding back?
Sometimes it’s difficult to hear the answer but deep down you know the truth.
The truth is that life is hard and sometimes I don’t give it all I have and I’m aware of that. But if I can close my eyes and focus on being present I can get a little bit closer to the discipline I’d like to have tomorrow.
That’s why I start my day at 430am.