This morning I had to get up early for an appointment and quite frankly I found it painful. It’s just that I have a set time that I like to get up, 8.30am. To some that’s ridiculously late, to others it’s way too early to contemplate. Yet for me that’s the best time. It got me thinking about how much time we spend in our lives out of alignment with our own rhythm.
Think about it. Do you tend to eat, sleep and do just about everything else at a set time every day? Up at 7am and breakfast at 7.30am, then lunch 12.30pm (at your desk probably), arrive home, and dinner around 6.30pm-7pm, watch some TV and off to bed around 10.30pm-11pm.
How much of the above do you think even think about? I bet mostly it’s just done out of habit rather than because it feels good, right or natural to you. We just don’t think about what our natural rhythms are.
When I was working as a full-time employee I had to get up for work around 7am. It killed me. I didn’t actually need to be up that early, I used to get up 30 minutes early just to give myself time to ease into the day. Getting up before 8am left me stressed. So that’s how I would start my day, stressed and unhappy. For many of you it might be that you have no choice, you need to be at work at a certain time. But think about where in your life you do have a choice and you are not choosing to exercise it.
Do you live your life according to someone else’s rhythm? Your boss’s your partner’s, your childrens’, your friends’? Do you get up, eat, play, sleep according to a time that is convenient for them?
You are at our best when you live life according to your own rhythm.
Maybe you could take the time to figure out, for you, what that is.
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