I finally have some good news about my sleep schedule. I’m doing it!
I can’t remember exactly when I most recently decided, for the nth time, to try and fix my sleep schedule, but my gut says that’s been something like 4 months, maybe more. (Update: it was September 21st, so less than 3 months ago as outlined in this post)
My main enemy is the snooze button. And in that time, I think I’ve only gone back to sleep after my alarm went off a single time, and that was because I was sick and made a conscious choice to sleep more.
I’ve been consistently getting up early, often before the alarm goes off. I’m far more productive and things are going well.
I’ve found, though, that it’s very closely related to how much I drink, which has also been much lower in that same time frame. Making sure to avoid heavy drinking days entirely seems to be fairly important to the success of this effort.
But it’s been good. In total, I’m spending way less time in bed, which gives me an extra hour or more each day to be productive.
But I also have way more energy and am just generally more productive in every way.
I’m hoping I can just keep this up and never have to go back to the way things were. I sort of feel like this has been my biggest obstacle for a long time and now I’m finally making good progress on it.