Shame on me but I didn’t manage getting up at 6.15 am, neither yesterday nor this morning. Lying around in bed just seemed so pleasant that I always added one hour and didn’t get up until 7.15 am. Plus, I’ve been too lazy this and last afternoon to practice getting up. But I know I have to do that tomorrow when I have a lot of free time. I believe it’s essential in order to succeed in becoming an early riser. Tomorrow I actually wouldn’t have to get up until 10.45 am. But should I really be able to manage getting out of bed at 6.15 am this would give me four and a half hours of additional spare time. Time I Don’t know what to use for yet, but I’m optimistic that there will be several things I can do.

At the moment I’m listing the times when I go to bed and when I get up. Perhaps it will be useful eventually. By the way I haven’t been too tired neither yesterday nor today at school or at any other time. Probably my body appreciates me reducing my sleeping time. I’m curious about what comes next. At least i’m going to try to overcome my weaker self and really get up at 6.15 am tomorrow. My own weakness annoys me. In the evening I’m always confident of being able to rise at 6.15 am but when my alarm clock goes off I think “Yeah, okay. Actually you had to get up now. But ten minutes more or less won’t hurt anyone”. The problem is that these ten minutes have suddenly become one hour and then I even have to hurry on some days as you can read in Part One of this series. I hope that I can get out of bed on time tomorrow.

You’ll be able to read more about my experiment in case you’re interested, stay tuned.

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.