OMANN~! - Interesting Topics for Cosmopolitan People

I recently stumbled upon a very interesting website, www.stevepavlina.com. The guy’s got a lot of interesting topics about one’s life as well as tips, for example hot to give up coffee etc. One of his articles (more precisely, he’s wrotten two articles on that topic) is about hot to become an early riser.

Being a late riser sometimes annoyed me. When I had to go to school I always got up as late as possible and so I often had to hurry not to be late (which occasionally happened nevertheless). So “breakfast” was an unknown word to me. But being a late riser not only bugged me on weekdays. On weekends it was even worse. It happened very often that I didn’t go to bed before 3 am, so I didn’t get up before lunch (which is normally between 2 pm and 3:30 pm). Adding the time needed for lunch, my spare time on saturdays or sundays shrinked to about four hours before I went out in the evening. Sometimes I even preferred lying around in my bed to going out with my friends. That’s what really annoyed me. My friends are pretty much the most important thing for me, so I always felt like an idiot when I did so.

 I had read Steve Pavlina’s article several months ago and I’ve been interested as well back then, but when I happened to visit his website again yesterday, I resolved to try out his approach of becoming an early riser.  Following his steps I didn’t go to bed until 1:30 am, which was seemingly still not long enough to become tired. On sunday I had slept until 2pm so I hadn’t even been awake for twelve hours. Something past 2:30 I finally fell asleep. So much the worse was getting up this morning. My alarm clock went off at 6:15 am. But I just hammered on the snooze-button several times so I got up at 7:15 am. I knew that it would end up like this already when I read Steve’s article, which said that I had to practice getting up. But I thought I could give it a try nonetheless. I think it was a good decision. Leaving the house at 9:20 am on mondays and wednesdays and about 7:30 am on the rest of the weekdays, this gave me nearly two hours of spare time from getting up to going to school today. Time I used to write the first article for my blog, the one you’re reading at the moment.

 I’m feeling a bit tired now (which is perhaps self-explanatory after less than five hours of sleep when you’re used to having about eight) and I’m curious how I’m going to feel at school. When I come home today, I’ll try to practice getting up. That might sound ridiculous, but why shouldn’t I do so? The procedure looks promising and I’ve got time today as well. The only thing I have to pay attention to is not to fall asleep. 

 Now I think I’m going to leave because it’s raining outside so I don’t want to go to school by bike and thus I have to walk. I’m anxious to see when I’ll go to bed tonight.

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