Waking up earlier

This ain’t just a tech blog. It’s a way to organize my life. One thing I’ve learned from my “blog every day” pledge is that the primary tool for life organization is daily routine. I don’t think mine is optimal, so today I’m re-thinking it.

There are four key numbers to my daily routine: wake, work, leave, sleep. Currently, they are:

wake  work  leave sleep
08:30 10:00 18:30 00:00

Here’s the routine visually:

What’s wrong with this routine?

• Too much sleep; not enough quality sleep. (Sleeping during daylight.)
• My morning routine omits essential elements (often breakfast).
• My lunch is significantly later than the normal working 12:30 lunch.
• I arrive at work too late, and leave work too late.
• It’s not aligned with the sun. It’s fundamentally aligned with work.
• I work long hours but don’t get much done in them.

I’m going to:

• Remove 60 minutes from the end of my work day. I don’t believe that time is productive; I do most work in the morning.
• Remove 30 minutes at the end of my sleep. I don’t believe it’s quality sleep (during daylight).
• Add 60 minutes to my morning routine.
• Add 30 minutes to my evening routine.
• Shift the entire routine so that my sleep ends around daybreak.

This gives me the key numbers:

wake  work  leave sleep
06:30 09:00 16:30 22:30

This can be represented visually:

I wrote this because I felt like it. This post is my own, and not associated with my employer.