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Day 9 Monday 9am

I was absolutely tired and worn out, I had spent all Sunday training parkour and running doing body weight exercise, plus the outside air, by the time I went to bed I slept when the alarm went off at 5am I heard it but I was worn out and my body was aching, felt more beneficial to sleep the extra 4 hours. This experiment on the few days where I have got up around the 5am mark has really run me in to the ground. Still try and get up tomorrow, I really felt better for the extra sleep, my arms and back of shoulders were really aching today.

Day 10 Tuesday 5.30am

Got up at early today, put on the trainers and got out the house, went for a jog. Had a bit of a run then some walking, felt really great jogging at that time , there was a few cars about and people walking around must of thought he’s serious. The air was nice and clean and it really blew the cobwebs out of the system, took a while to get used to. The iPod headphones kept falling out of my ears while I was jogging which was very annoying. Also found that I was a little bit shaky on my legs, trying to do some leaps and jumps my legs were not quite awake. I got home, had a blast in the cold shower, also seem that bit colder in the morning when you’re not quite woken up enough to take the sharp shock. but that felt good and had breakfast bananas and oats, and all this by 6.45am so decided to get back in to bed for a bit, which feels great after a cold shower. Set the alarm and fell asleep / snoozed till 7.15am which is my usual wake up time on this shift before I started getting up early. Felt good at work, the days are starting to feel long, the morning goes on forever when it feels like I’ve been at work all day, its only 11am. Also felt good saying that I had been up had a run ect.

Day 11 Wed 10am

Tired, my shift today was 12-8 as it only takes me 15mins to get to work I could have got up at around 11.20am at a push, this morning the alarm went off at 5am, I reset to 6am, snoozed it a bit , rest to 8am, snoozed button pressed a few times , reset to 9.30am , then pressed snooze and then just laid in bed till about 10am then decided to get out of bed. My snooze button sets the alarm to go off 10mins later, so pressing it 3 times in a row that half an hour in 3 ten min sleep instalments. Needless to say I didn’t get up early today; I have yet to get up at 5am when I’m on a late shift. Getting up at 5am when I don’t start to 12pm that’s 7 hours before I even get on my shift. This is the excuse though, on these days I don’t need to get up till at the latest 11.20am so there is so much time to have a lay in bed and snooze/daydream. And I think that is what most of my team does on this day as well by the sounds of it. They say oh tomorrow will have a nice lye in! Me too! Even though I’m trying not to, also on Wednesday I went out and stayed out late, so got to sleep at 1am which leads to Thursday’s effort. Today I didn’t feel myself at all, It was very hard to concentrate and think of anything to talk about or think about. I could do my job because I have only so much information I need to advise, but when on my breaks I felt very detached, on the night out after work, it was hard. Just took allot of effort, maybe I’m really sleep deprived, and need a good 15hours rest or something.

Day 12 Thurs 7.10am

Went to bed late, worn out and slightly drunk. After a full on day, today the alarm went off at 5am, snooze, it went off at 5.30 I reset it to 6.30am , then snoozed a bit more. I got up at 7.10am, slightly annoyed at the fact I had pressed snooze so many times, it would have been better to just set the alarm for 7.10am and got up without all the messing about. Still not bad, the thing is I still haven’t learnt to go to bed early, and the headspace I was in yesterday after drifting through the whole day. I think I read in another article Steve Pavlina, he states get up at a set time and only go to sleep when tired. I’m not really that tired until around 1am, and then if the alarm is going off again at 5am it doesn’t seem right to get up after only 4 hours of rest. Or am I supposed to so that I struggle through the day, and then need to sleep by around 9pm. Also reminds me, while doing this I have been feeling light headed sometimes, just like whoa I could just pass out here in my chair. I’m still working on getting up early and getting a straight set of days in a row where I am up. What is funny is the woman I sit with at work, gets up every single day without fail at 5am! I asked her what time she goes to bed, around 10pm was the answer which makes sense, around 7 hours of rest. She got up today and did some gardening at 5am, fair play. Also she was reading a book for 2 hours. To read at 5am would make me fall asleep; it’s too relaxing to do.

Day 6 waking up at 5am

Starting to wake up before the alarm goes off, this is a sign that my body clock is starting to adjust to the new wake up time of 5am, By 10 or 11 Pm this is the time that I need to go to sleep.

How does this make me more successful, I supposed I can spend? This morning did not help as its been raining hard the sky outside is dark and black, Today the tv went on for some sound , and the computer came on for some entertainment, there is live channels on tv and its weird watching the same people who are on at this time of day. I am tired, but I’m not going to sleep this one today.  Six days I’ve been getting up really early and all its been so far is just a new experience, I think at the end of this I would have gained the skill of being to get out of bed even when I feel tired and my mind tells me not to. Also struggling of things to do but I struggle when things to do anyway I think just having to get up early rubs this in my face a little more. Because not only am I bored, I’m tired and bored.

Day 8

The last few days the alarm has been going off at 5am but I have been sleeping through it, I have lost most of the initial motivation from this exercise and have found the last few days I’ve been sleeping more than normal, sleeping till 9am and also going to bed early and falling asleep in the afternoon. So it seems like I have been sleeping more and still not feeling any better for the whole experience , apart from a few days where I got up at 5am , the rest has been worse than before.  Going in to the new week I need to come back on this challenge with a renewed energy, the hardest thing about this is I don’t find any reason to get up , when the alarm goes off, I have a goal to wake up every day at 5am which I do , I wake up every day at 5am to switch off the alarm and go back to sleep. I had some really good success for the first 3 days, but now it’s falling apart and my sleep is all over the place.

I wanted to get up early so that I could jog, or look for success, so far I’ve got up early played computer games and fell back to sleep.  Hmm, I find this difficult so much and also very boring. The 5am get up is hard because it’s more of a chore and boring than just staying asleep and having some entertaining dreams.

Waking up at 5am is not hard, if an alarm goes off you wake up to turn it off, but waking up properly takes longer than this,  I don’t feel awake when this happens , I fall back to sleep after I’ve returned to my bed. If I get up and sit in front of the computer, I will just stare at the computer for an hour, my job is on a computer so I’m just working myself before I even get to work.  So I need to focus on something else, perhaps a walk or even just look out the window at the sun coming up for an hour while stretching.

I am Trying to get up at 5am , day 5

Woke up and got up at 5.30am, once again i had pressed snooze with out knowing three times. So got up at 5.30, which is still good going and allot earlier than usual. Very tired last night I went to bed at 1am , so only 4 hours sleep. I had breakfast and checked on all the usual sites, made a drink. By 6.15am I was running out of things to do and motivation, thought I may as well chill for a bit, fell asleep. Not at work till 11.30am today, so plenty of time woke back up at 9am.

Not sure, this must be the 5 day hump. Day 5 being the day when all the initial, hype and motivation has worn off and it gets down to just doing it. Think this is where i’m at, I’ve done this by the book now i’m starting to feel it catching up with me. Need to change some things up if i’m going do this , just keep working on this 25 days to go.

Rising from Sleep, awakening early day 4

I am glad that I won an I-Pod Shuffle, the new Skinny 1 that looks like a memory stick while I was on my holiday. This morning doing a little bit of dancing about to wake up. Woop jiggle jiggle, wake up! Seems to be working, I pressed the snooze button twice, got up at 5.20am. The two hits on the snooze button were completely unconscious, its only at about 5.18 I caught myself and just got up. I forgot how nice it is just to have some music playing, it’s almost time as well for the sunrise to happen as well.

Wish my house was empty, even though I am up, there is things that would be easier to do like the cleaning if there wasn’t people asleep all over the place.

After this weekend, still getting up at 5am, I feel like im learning about how to manage tirdness, at the end of the day my energy is still high even at about 12am. Like I thought it would be a challenge, im learning to understand how to cope with tirdness through out the day. As a result of managing my energy and becoming more aware of my current level of awarness, when I do finaly hit the pillow at the end its after a long day.

6.23am , another thing that is new since I’ve been doing this, is for the first time in years, I am eating breakfast. I have for years not been able to stomach food until at least midday. Eating breakfast in the morning used to make me feel queezy, now I’ve had my breakfast for the last 4 days. Eating in the morning with plenty of time before work seems to give me time to not rush and digest it properly. I am on the porridge, tribulus and maca combination, boiled some hot water to make a coffee , but decided to leave that alone as well.

Evening update, I was almost unemotional all day, by 4pm I was starting to make mistakes. Finding myself loosing track of my sentences, and completely removed from the situation, it felt good just on a nice clam flow, easy to talk and easy.  Didn’t replenish my energy , I skipped lunch and food on both my breaks felt very light-headed. Came home at and then just feel asleep for 2 hours. Also fell asleep for 5mins at 7.20am when i leave for work at 7.30am dont know how i woke myself up out of that one.

It’s been a while since I herd this tune, But I set the Ipod to just have a random selection from my computer and this tune came on which was nice.

I really enjoyed yesterday, it was like my own personal secret getting up early and working my day with the additional 2 hours at the beginning. As I am now up at its 5.20am something I read yesterday where, waking early seems to be just like shifting time zone is starting to feel like the case. I am having difficulty writing this blog right now I’m still half not with it.

With the alarm going off at 5am the last two days it has caught me right in the middle of a vivid dream. Both times I have been in the dream stage at the time. Which is good because both days my dreams were almost like nightmares, so its good that they got interrupted. And I’ve had a chance to see what is running through my mind, at these points of my day. I would have usually had a dream gone back in to deep sleep then had another then woke up. But getting up at 5am its stopped those, too much time dreaming about these weird situations and worries, just put a stop too that altogether. Think I need to look in to visualisation or meditation and get some positive images running through my mind.

Tomorrow is going to be a difficult day at getting up at 5am, and so is today will be challenging working with the post 5am energy. I’m going on holiday for a day, and this includes a full day at a theme park and a full evening partying. If yesterday was an example to go on, il be in bed by 10pm after spending the whole day drifting around like a stoner.

5.30 Sun is coming up, and at least I’ve got plenty of time to get myself sorted for this day holiday. Sitting at my desk wrapped in duvet im technically still not out of bed, I’ve just brought the bed to my desk; all I need now is a chair that fully reclines and my pillow.

Tune for Chase and Status Let you go

How to wake up at 5am, for the next 30 days.

So after yesterdays wake up time of the unusual early time of 7am and reading and writing about getting up early benefits over the course of that day it manifested in to the goal of waking up at 5am for the next 30 days. I’ve been struggling to get up early for many years always thinking of ways of doing it, so instead of trying to get up an extra 20 mins early or 30 mins , lets just completely burry this old habit buy getting up at 5am , this is two and a half hours early for me. Like the cold showers im sure this is going to feel harsh for the first few weeks, but then once ive got over the initial shock they will become a new experience and insight for my character.

I nearly slipped up on the first day, I jumped out of bed at 5am, then stood and thought il just lay down for 30mins and decide what im going to do with this time. I also thought i better set my alarm for 30mins as well, mmmm sounds like someone is trying to get back to bed. So i decided to do the same thinking on the pages of this blog instead.

Waking up at 5am isn’t a new thing for me, i used to work shifts and used to get up at 4.45am , by 5am i was out of the house and on my way to work. Getting up at 4.45am and leaving at 5am perhaps i should have got up 2 and a half hours earlier in those days as well because i was always rushing during that morning routine.

What to do , now that im up. I guess i better get on with some jobs. I’m hoping that i will soon start to do an exercise routine, and also get some pictures on here and video of some 5am experiences.

How did I wake up at 5am today, well I was pretty motivated to do this as i gave it allot of thought yesterday so when the alarm went off I got up. Now the hard part is doing this again and again for another 30 days, I wonder if this will be something that I will keep doing after it’s over.

Update 5.10pm. Ive been up over 12 hours now and ive just completed a full days work , i advised 58 customers today, it felt relaxed and easy almost too tired to want to cause and disputes. even angry customers i eased over with my relaxed calmness. The one person on my team who is already an early riser i spoke to today to ask some advise, they had been up since 4.45am and has spent the morning painting and gardening before work. I enjoyed the fact that ive been up all this time, it even sounded weird when people told me they got up at 7am usually this would have been earlier than me but i was thinking , wow you got up late!. So now its the afternoon do i take a nap or stay awake or fall asleep for many hours , i can’t quite figure out what my body is saying to me. I feel tired but i haven’t eaten yet, and i dont feel sleepy tired just a dull warmth in my body.  I have had a good day so far and have had some great calls with some positive feedback, communicating almost in a detached state.

More days to follow , this may just be my own hype real test will be in several weeks time.

Here is a tune to listen too while you read! Dub step Example remix

Reasons and Health Benefits for getting up early in the morning

So my next big challenge in life is to overcome my need to spend all day asleepand day dreaming, as much as i love a good snooze its almost a guilty pleasure that i love and hate at the same time, true its very comfortable laying arround for 2 or 3 hours snoozing and daydreaming, but at the same time i also miss out on those 2 or 3 hours a day activly working on my life. If i just had more time in the week then i would be able to do more with myself, the main part of my snooze thoughts is thinking and brainstorming ideas, but as im half asleep these strokes of insight and genius are soon forgotten, it would be better to just get up and write these ideas on some paper, and do a quick 20 minute’s of brainstorming and mind-mapping.

Ive got lots i want to do and im sleeping through my life, missing the point and the action by laying in the dreams and thoughts of my own mind.

Motivation to get up early, so I’ve made this list of reference of insights and ideas to get up early and some of the positive reasons and health benefits for getting out of bed and being awake in the morning.

Make it in to daily routine, at the start of learning the new routine of getting out of bed like anything this will seem like hard work, but usally after only a few weeks it becomes a talent that can be masterd, think of the edge you will have over most people if you can get up and start your day before, most people have even pressed the snooze button a few times. Being prepared for the day and having time to get ready for the days events. So life would be easier having already make your plans for what is about to happen over the next 12 hours. Making it a routine makes it harder to break , just as its a routine that is used to sleep in and the results that come from that routine are in place, so is getting up early a rotine and that also comes togther with its own set of outcomes.

Hitting the snooze button, i hate my alarm and i also hate the sound of the snooze, its an annoying ringing sound that makes me clench too the depths of my soul, the sound sickens me to the stomach, my mind hates this snooze button and yet i press it over and over. I hate the snooze and alarm. But i press it again and again, i would like to not use this alarm any more and just get up with out having to listen to this annoying beeping. By snoozing your training yourself to become sleepy fast, you wake up press the snooze fall asleep, wake up press snooze fall asleep , over and over, up down up down. When do you really wake up perhaps doing this is not healthy. There is no clear cut line between sleeping and being awake, no wonder i often feel like im walking around in a daydream state.

Pondering, this is the number 1 activity while i snooze and lay in bed , i ponder think plan self talk and daydream, often thinking in circles round and round, until i slip in to another snooze, its a very comforting mindframe, i kind of lull myself to sleep in this rhymical thinking, ponerding and thinking ahh snoozing , and then beep beep the alarm goes of again for the 4th time, then i repeat, should i get up , but ive so much to ponder, blah blah unitl beep beep that bloody snooze button again.  Should just get up pull out my to do list or open up my blog and write down some ideas instead. Get those thoughts out of my head, if there so useful then i should put them to work straight away.

Eat like a king, breakfast sleeping too much reduces the time in the morning before i have to leave the house, i get up and go and daily i miss out on some food or fruit in the morning, i start my day with no time to fuel up. By getting up early one of the activity’s in that new space of time will be eating some food.

When im snoozing i think there is no reason to get up, even when ive achieved all the goals i want , i could always pull out a to do list and fill it with another 50 things i want to do with my life. In this world there is always some thing to do, even if it just means walking to the local store and buying a paper, there is new news to read. Finding a book there is new ideas to consume, exersise there is a few extra reps that can be added. There is lots to do, there is never nothing to do, even if you dont need to work for another 3 hours then just spend some time, working anyways get it out the way, getting up early would give me enough time to watch a whole movie or listen to 2 hours of music.  Spend 2 hours painting or drawing or writing a book, 2 extra hours to walk around and jog and climb practice parkour.

Stretch and breath, and drink and eat , have a cold shower and put on your clothes. Don’t spend time sleeping and snoozing spend time getting fully energised and awake. Loosen up and grab hold of life before anyone else has a chance to. Get the bed made the night time clothing put away and get dressed and ready, iron the clothing . Do chores and washing, electricity is cheaper before 7am in the uk so do the laundry in this time. Get this skill down to an auto pilot response,

Exercise i think it would be awesome to hit the park at 6am or 7am , spend that hour climbing the frame and running and stretching, there would be no one around , i could even spend the hour kicking a  football or shooting baskets at the net, spend 45mins a morning training parkour/ free running. stretching and deep and powerful breathing.  my exercise routine is about functionality, i want to be able to run climb balance , have endurance and speed/power. At the moment after a days work i have no energy or motivation to work on this and my current job role is mainly sitting in an office, so then if i spend the morning doing a walk riding my bike or even powering through some parkour training at the park, then il be able to kick ass in my day time, and may even had a little energy left over at the end of the day.

People my freinds in china are only on the net during the periods when im usually asleep , if i just got up earlier it would give me more time to socialise on my global network, i could spend some time reading facebook or looking through youtube at some new people and ideas.

Just as i wrote that last sentence an prime example happened , its now 10.38 am ive been up since 7am my house-mate has just got up and is just waking up and making some breakfast. What an example ive already had almost 4 hours head-start on this guy. I must gain this skill to wake up earlier.

When i do wake up and get sorted earlier i seem to have more productivity as well, ive found the days when i start early i usally get a blog done or a video on my youtube channel , or even drop a few messages on facebook, my house also gets cleaned quicker and my  day seems more prepared and organised. Ive had some time to warm up my voice for my job on the phone as a consultant., and prepare my mind for some of the questions i am going to face from my customers. I have already gone through 20 – 30 calls in my mind of some of the situations that i will be faced with and the responses im going to be giving to these people, just like a sales man should understand the questions and rejections they are likely to face. Ive had time to prepare and then when these people come up with there questions ive already been awake 4 hours and im more than ready to advise them.

Just want to do more with my time, getting up will give me that time. The extra hours i could do so much more with than pondering, ive spent allot of time working on my internal relm while snoozing its time that i developed more my waking life. Perhaps i would need to do less snoozing if i had less to ponder, and the only way to do that is to work more on the things i do when im awake.

This is not the first time ive come to challenge my morning routine,  but like an old annoying habbit it is one thing that i want to destroy. Being harsh and getting up is going to give me another skill that i have at my disposal if i can stay awake and work on my life for many additional hours year, then all the goals and things i want im giving them more time and chance of being realised.

If your an early riser let me know in the comments below!

How am i going to get up earlier each day, learn to get up at 6am or earlier

Latest goal to work on is how to get up early, there will be plenty of time too sleep when im dead. The goal getting up early and sleeping less , too much time. Just like the cold showers, they will probly feel bad for the first few weeks but then once i get them in to the system , it will start to feel bad by not getting up early. The cold showers hurt at first , but now it seems that as im on a role it would be a shame to quit now.

Getting up early, how early should i get up? . The reason i stay asleep for so long is due to day dreaming, i almost find it hard to face life when im half asleep. By getting up and out , then i hope this will improve my focus. Of all the hours ive spent daydreaming and thinking in my daze, i honestly dont remeber what ive been thinking about or if that this has even been of benifit to myself.

Its going to be a struggle to get up early, perhaps just go straight for 5am so i can train my body clock to get up early if i wake naturaly around the 5am mark or even 6am this would still give me a great advantage.

Getting up earlier would give me more time to prepare myself for the days challenges, at the moment i role out of sleep get up get washed dressed and get in the car to go to work.  If i got up that hour or two earlier, i would have time to work on this site. Maybe an hour of reading an inspirational or instructional  book. Or just an hour walking through the park, which would blow the cobwebs out of my system and get some good air in to myself.

Im up now and it seems like ive got the whole day ahead, this moment in time 9am i would be rolling around sleeping and buried deep in my pillow.

Tomorrow morning im aiming for 6am, for the next 3 weeks 6am, this is going to be the learning and trail phase after that i should be on a roll like the cold showers and that would be the new easy route to take, it would be harder to stay in bed and daydream.

Power Breathing Store PowerBreath UK, Review and personal experience so far.

I recently purchased a PowerBreathe, the reason for this is i wanted to improve my lung capacity and also the efficiency so my breaths, i have found when running hills i am breathing in heavily but i doesn’t feel enough to keep me going, i wanted something so i could train at home my breathing. Since i have had this only a week i have found it to be a positive tool so far. Ive got the powerBreathe Red Fitness Plus edition. I have used it daily quite allot and i enjoy this exercise, On the lower levels its really good for just focusing on deep breathing on the higher level, although i can only do level 2 at the moment it really starts to focus on the explosiveness and force you have to use to get the breath through this device. I find it a good idea to really breath out all the air , then the next breath it is very deep. Have only done a little jogging and not sure if i felt and improvement. But i work in a call center and have allot of talking to do, this has helped me to find my breath easily when explaining long and complex queries. I have also been sleeping well since using this product. Another point to mention, i think this may even tone the core muscles, i have been practicing without a shirt on in front of mirror and it looks like the “six pack” muscles are active during the higher levels of this tool. Update after 1 week of daily use.

Seems to me when ever i want to do anything anymore i always get the question why arnt you drinking? Are you driving?

No !! What the fuck, whats with all the booze, can i not just hang out and be social without all this money spent on drinking. Im not sure what it is just seems to thats all i get when i meet up with people. Drink Drink, and more Drinking. I’ve had enough of all this drinking and expectation to drink and get drunk. Some of my best sober nights would have been even better if not for all the drink pestering.

I enjoy a drink when i feel like a drink but the majority of the time im in just a good frame of mind to not need a drink. When ever people want to see each other in my area, there is always drink involved. Do people hang out without drink, whats normal? I haven’t seen any people for a while because im avoiding the drinking situations. If it involves just drinking then im out. People never seem to get together for healthy reasons, lets meet up and drink vegetable juice and water. Thats my kind of buzz , lets meet up or go out partying. The drink is just an expensive product that is sold by the clubs and pubs to make a profit. Ive been on nights out where almost the entire night was consumed waiting at the bar to get served, drinking then going back to the bar and waiting to get served again. So stupid and pointless, and the expense £3.50 per bottle spending £30+ booze , being sick , feeling sick, and spending the next day being sick. Paying £30 to be ill , what? paying to get sick. Actually spending allot of money to pay to be ill this is crazy just so crazy. There is no logic in this and the cost involved is stupid.