On becoming an early riser

Filed Under (Writing Stuff) by Phy on 25-03-2006

I’m not a morning person – never have been.  For years and years, I’ve
been going to bed at midnight or 1am and dragging out of bed at 7 (or
later) to go to work.

And then, a month or so ago, my buddy Jerry challenged me to play
racquetball in the mornings before work.  He calls me at 4:45 in the
morning – the club opens at 5:30.  There hasn’t been one morning when
I woke up that early and felt like I was happy about it, but after I
get to the gym and work out, there hasn’t been a morning that I didn’t
feel much better about my day, and I’m start

I was initially trying to get to sleep around 10:30, but I’ve recently
tried something different, something that this author describes in his
article.

It’s a somewhat radical idea, and I can see it working.  Here’s the article:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/