People who know me know that I don’t often hold grudges. But there is one grudge that I’ve held for over 20 years and it’s against having to get out of bed in the morning before I damn well feel like it. It’s not that I’m not a morning person. Given the choice I’d probably wake up around 8 or 9 most days, read in bed for an hour or so until I’m well adjusted to the idea of being awake and then shuffle over to my computer with some coffee and be productive as hell for the next 5 or 6 hours! By the time 3 or 4 in the afternoon rolls around and I’ve had enough of sitting down I would most likely find some errand to run or just any excuse to go outside and drive/bike around for awhile before it gets dark. But in general that period between 10AM & 3PM is absolutely when I get the most work done. So that’s not the problem… The problem is the period between 7 & 10AM, which in contrast to the period directly following it is easily the worst part of my day. I don’t know why those few hours make such a big difference in my mood & productivity, and I’m sure getting to bed a little earlier would help, but dammit I’m a moaner and a lazy bastard and I’d rather just lament my situation and do ridiculous stuff like the following:
Upon waking and realizing that you’ve already slept through the first 2 alarms, make an agreement with yourself that you’ll get out of bed after just 15 more seconds of warmth and comfort. Begin counting backwards from 15. After you get to one, begin to cheat by halving the distance to zero. One-half, one-fourth, one-eighth… and so on. Repeat this until you can no longer accurately calculate the next number in the sequence. Admit defeat. Get of bed.
I find this also works with regards to getting out of the shower. I figured that after awhile I’d get better at this and be able to delay getting up even longer, but I keep getting stuck on one-eight-thousand-one-hundred-and-ninety-second. Possibly because I’m so lazy.
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