Good morning! It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new start of a new lifestyle!
I think I'm going to leave the timer just as a reminder of the bigger picture and as to why I have chosen to do this.
Whenever I mention some sort of challenges say, for example, the no sugar November we did the last year, there are always some people that would comment something in the lines of - Oh, I know myself, I couldn't do it. I'm just not that kind of a person.
Well, not with THAT kind of belief system! Sure you couldn't. But I know MYSELF and I know I have to have my beliefs in check if I want to do this. And from me working with myself I know that I can, in fact, wake up early, I know it gets a bit challenging for me around day 3-4, but I also know that I can overcome that.
Now the belief system part that I still would have to work on - is that not only do I know that I can, but that this is me now, this is my second nature, I'm the kind of person that simply wakes up each morning at no later than 6:00. This now needs to become part of my identity and personality.
Now I'm not gonna lie, there was this part of me that wished I could just turn to the other side and continue sleeping. I woke up by the alarm at the latest possible time - 6:00.
Now you can see that I went to sleep just three minutes before midnight, and no, I wasn't being a deliberate ass to myself, I did go to sleep earlier, but was in about a 2h battle with a random mosquito that had somehow managed to get to the sixth floor.. I really do not know how.
But yeah, I do keep failing the ultimate test of spirituality that is the mosquito meditation. xD
I do hope to get in some more reasonable hours of sleep tonight.
As for reflecting back on yesterday - I did get my 10k steps in and was feeling quite creative, so there was that, but I feel I could have been a bit more productive in the second half of the day and spend some time on either some chores or learning something, as opposed to wasting my time consuming the questionable type of content on youtube.
I did feel like I had deserved it due to the progress done in the morning, but THAT is the slippery slope though - that feeling of, oh, I deserve some random dopamine now, and then you find yourself mindlessly wasting your time away, consuming the kind of stuff that doesn't even add to your growth and development.
Something to be more mindful about.
Now I still have about 2h before work, so, if you'll excuse me, I have some Sun Salutations to do.
Keep those goals of yours at the top of your mind, stay focused, and have an awesome and amazing day!
~Josie~