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So here are the results of my early rising experiments for Week 1. I want to emphasize that it's my first week, so I'm still learning! My goal is to get into work by 8:00am, including days when I go to the gym in the morning (supposed to be 2 out of the 5 workdays). To review my categories are:
1) To bed and to rise times and total hours slept.
2) Time at work.
3) 0-10 scale of how tired I was with 0 being as energetic as ever and 10 being asleep most of the day.
4) General thoughts and satisfaction with the day.
At the bottom I've listed average values for categories 1 - 3.
Here is a link to my introduction post for this experiment.
Monday
1) Asleep: 11:00 pm
Out of Bed: 6:30 am
Hours of Sleep: 7.5 hrs
2) At work: 8:25 am
3) Tired: 2/10
4) Progress not bad, 8:25 am is a lot better than 9:25 am.
Tuesday
1) Asleep: 10:30 pm
Out of Bed: 6:00 am
Hours of Sleep: 7:30 hrs
2) At work: 8:40 am (gym)
3) Tired: 8/10
4) So tired. Last hour of sleep was off an on. Got to the gym late, so then into work late.
Wednesday
1) Asleep: 10:30 pm
Out of Bed: 6:50 am
Hours of Sleep: 8:20 hrs
2) At work: 8:15 am
3) Tired: 1/10
4) Excellent, made up for yesterday.
Thursday
1) Asleep: 11:00 pm
Out of Bed: 7:00 am
Hours of Sleep: 8:00 hrs
2) At work: 8:45 am
3) Tired: 2/10
4) What a waste, I should be able to get into work an hour after waking up, but I didn't get in until almost 9am.
Friday
1) Asleep: 11:00 pm
Out of Bed: 7:15 am
Hours of sleep: 8:15 hrs.
2) At work: 9:00am
3) 4/10
4) Didn't sleep well. Stayed in bed too long. Didn't get into the gym. I'm unraveling at the end of the week!
Averages
1) Asleep: 10:48 pm
2) Out of Bed: 6:43 am
3) Hours of Sleep: 7.9
4) At Work 8:37 am
5) Tired: 3.4/10
Goals
I said I wanted to go to bed between 10 and 10:30 pm every day to get into work by 8:00 am. Clearly comparing the averages of asleep time to at work time shows if I go to bed on average at 10:15 pm, I should be able to get to work at about 8:00 am. I seem to average a solid 8 hours of sleep, as expected, and overall my tiredness is below 5, which means I have energy and focus, so that's good.
The fact that even after declaring I'm doing this experiment and keeping a log, I couldn't get in before 8:30 am on average is pretty pathetic, especially when considering I missed one gym day (which I have to make up for this weekend). 8:30 am is by no means early.
This needs to change drastically next week. The main goal for next week is to get into work by 8:00am on average. I understand that this is going to require getting into work before 8:00am on some days, but that can't be impossible.
Anyone have any early rising tips and tricks? Share your thoughts!
Friday, February 1, 2008
Getting Up Early: Week 1
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2 comments:
I'm trying to go on an early schedule, too. The problem is that there is always one day a week when I have to stay out late. I play ice hockey and hockey is always played at late hours, so I can't get into bed until midnight. How am I supposed to get up at 5:30 am the next day? I haven't figured out a good solution to this problem, yet.
Forget about it, if you checkout my last couple of Getting Up Early posts you'll see that I couldn't get over the 8:00am barrier (average for the week) for arriving at work (I was working out before getting to school). I found that trying to get up earlier than was natural for me (6:00 is about the limit for me) was hopeless. I did some reading and it seems it's not healthy to try to wake up too early. Your body has natural hormonal rhythms and trying to fight that is futile and may leave you groggy. Yes, I'm providing no evidence for this now, I may post on it later. Anyway, I'm not sleep expert, but I say sleep in if you went to bed late. It's best to arrive awake and ready.
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