Early to rise

I gave up waking up early for a few months and it’s really a little hard for me to get out of bed at 5 o’clock. Now I wake up at about 7 o’clock which makes me ashamed of myself. I’ve determined to change but every time the alarm clock rings, I turn it off and sleep again. For me, it seems that as long as the clock rings at 5:00 am, it means I’ve waken up early no matter whether I get out of bed. I’m cheating myself. And because of that, I have no time to run and I even give up running. What’s worse is that my reading time has decreased dramatically. My former routine has gone away. I spent so much time and energy to create such a good routine but destroyed it merely in a few months. I’ve got trapped into a vicious cycle.

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I once determined to wake up again but failed again and again. I was so kind to myself. Now I want to wake up early again. To be honest, I have no confidence in myself about rising early. I plan to wake up at 4:30 every day without any exception. Jocko Willink wakes up at 4:30 every day and he launched one campaign of waking up at 4:30 am around the world. So many people imitate Jocko and have changed their lives. Jocko once stayed overnight at Tim Ferriss’ home and he woke up at 4:30 am and read book which thrilled Tim.

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I like Jocko’s idea and plan to wake up at 4:30 for a week without leaving one day. It’ll be very hard for me but I’ll try. I want to experience the pain from waking up early and experience the feedback from waking up early. And I’ll write down the feeling of waking up early every day. Seven days maybe will make a change.