Good Morning my fellow losers (tongue in cheek)
So I woke up at 5am this morning. My normal time to wake up, between 5am and 6am. The issue is not waking up early, IT'S GETTING UP EARLY!!!!
One of my changes this year is to go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6am. BOTH are huge problems for me. Then this morning I tried to convince myself to get up and take a bike ride. "YEAH RIGHT LOLA, you have to convince yourself to take a shower before 8am, now you want to exercise 6am in the morning?" This is exactly how I set myself up for failure!!!!! "Lets just work on getting you out of bed in the morning FIRST!" I don't have any dependents, as my son is grown and lives on his own. I feed all the animals before I leave for work, just before 9am. My shop opens at 9am, so there is really no reason (in my mind) to get up at 6am every morning. Even though I do wake up at 6am, I will literally lie in bed working on my laptop (doing admin etc) until at least 7:30 - 8am. How on God's green earth do I think I will just miraculously get up one morning and WANT TO do exercise? (rolling eyes) What will happen is that after day 3 of not getting up and doing exercise I will feel like a total failure for not exercising every morning (like I inevitably would like to do) and I would just quit on every change and go back to my bad old ways.
MY POINT BEING:
Too much change too fast will cause complete failure. I have at least 20 years of bad habits to change and it is not going to happen over night no matter HOW strong willed and strong minded you are.
SMALL STEPS AND SMALL CHANGES ARE PROGRESS NONETHELESS.
SMALL CHANGES MEAN I IMPROVE AND AREN'T STAGNANT
Keep moving forward, no matter how small the step.
That one little step means you are MOVING!
Apart from continuing to cut fizzy sugary drinks from my diet, being more physically active on a daily basis (even if it means sweeping the kitchen floor daily), this week's step is going to be to go to bed at 10pm and GETTING UP at 6am. (All while still sticking to a calorie restricted diet too).
