Resolution #43: I Resolve To Wake Up Before Noon For A Full Year...
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Date: 2-12-2014
Due Date: 2-12-2015
Resolution: Make that noon thirty.
On Monday I ended up staying awake until around 7:00 in the am because I was hell-bent on finishing my novel. Though I finished at around 4:30 in the am, I had too much going on in my head to sleep. I still managed to wake up at around 1:00 in the pm.
Now I am in a horrible sleep pattern. This morning I went to bed around 7:30 in the am and just woke up an hour ago at 3:00 in the pm. I wouldn't have a problem with this if I stayed productive up until I fell asleep, but I like to wind day my day at around 3:00 in the am.
So there was a good four hours that I just laid there thinking. I woke up at noon and could have forced myself to stay awake to break this cycle but I was feeling a little down so I decided to ride this sleep thing out.
The feeling down isn't really a bad thing. As I said in something I wrote yesterday, I suffer from a bit of separation anxiety whenever I finish up a big writing project. This can turn into full-blown depression if I let it, leading me to sleep 12 to 16 hours a day until I get out of it.
Now that I've got this 365 Days of Resolution experiment I'm finding that I don't like to get this late of a start. There are certain resolutions that if I don't get them done early I'm more inclined to put them off until I can get an earlier start. I also fear that people may be thinking, “Oh, this is the day he gave up.”
For the next year… I resolve to wake up before noon thirty (unless I land a gig where I get paid to work overnights and there's no getting around going to bed while the sun is up.)
Wish me luck. I do fall into moods where I really love sleep.
Note: I will give myself five Mulligans to avoid failing the first time I accidentally oversleep and then giving up on this resolution. If a Mulligan is used this becomes a Success* rather than a Success!!!
Result #43: I Can't Believe I Actually Went An Entire Year Without Sleeping Past Noon Thirty…
Update #1: The Conclusion…
Date: 2-16-2015
I'm surprised that I was successful with this resolution. At the time I set it I was either freelancing or unemployed depending on how you looked at my situation. I would stay up until about six in the AM to then wake up at three in the PM.
I loved this sleep schedule but there were also times where I was feeling depressed and would go to bed at two in the AM to still wake at three in the PM. This resolution was meant more to be a guard for oversleeping and not really about what time I wake up.
I think I was expecting to fail this one before failing the smoking resolution to the point where I wrote in that I have five mulligans in the original resolution.
I proud to announce that I didn't even have to use one mulligan!!! Even on my days off I managed to at least wake up early, do some work, wait until mid-afternoon and take a nap.
As I type this, all I can think is, "This is some accomplishment to be proud of?" I'm celebrating that I wake up before noon?!?
