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post #31 of 34
8/12/08 at 5:35pm
Waking up early is a construct created by older married folk, methinks. If you are young, single, and living in a city, your weekends will be LATE nights and LATE mornings no matter what. It is difficult to get up early during the week after this kind of sleep disruption.

Moreover, nothing interesting happens in the morning. Social events usually go on at night, as do dinners, or even television events (if that's your cup of tea). Mornings? Tai chi in the park, maybe, but that's it.

If it wasn't for the general working hours convention of 9am-evening, there would be no reason for waking up early.

On the converse of course, if social and television events all ended by 10pm, and mornings were peppered with people who are awake and doing interesting things, then early mornings would be fine.

The main issue here is the disconnect between social activity taking place late night and work activity taking place in the morning. They don't match. And it kills sleep for people who enjoy spending time out.

/end rant
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post #32 of 34
8/13/08 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by odoreater View Post
You realize that two people who are sleeping the same number of hours have the same amount of "time to do what you please" even if one wakes up at 4:00 a.m. and the other wakes up at 9:00 a.m., don't you?
That assumes that you behave in exactly the same way between 4 - 9 and 5 - 10. I have trouble getting to bed on time because I need to do a certain amount of unwinding in the evening and then I procrastinate / am unorganized on getting done what I need to do before I go to bed. I prefer rushing to work than rushing to bed. Incidentally, from my perception my roommate has a lot more free time than I do. He's more likely than I am to do something after work, but for some reason whenever he comes home he has time to sit around on the couch while I'm still doing random things. Is this grass-is-always-greener bias? Does he have a lower quality of life than I do? (My room is much tidier.) Or is there actually something I could be doing better?
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post #33 of 34
8/13/08 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by MetroStyles View Post
Waking up early is a construct created by older married folk, methinks. If you are young, single, and living in a city, your weekends will be LATE nights and LATE mornings no matter what. It is difficult to get up early during the week after this kind of sleep disruption.
So the reason that work starts early is that older married folk control the world. But why do all the social events take place so late? We should either live by the gerontocracies rules or overthrow it, not simply let them screw us over with lack of sleep.
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post #34 of 34
8/13/08 at 3:41pm
I was the same as you, here's what helped me the most:

Prepare your morning routine as much as possible the night before:
- clean your bedroom so the first thing you see isn't yesterday's clothing,
- pick out a nice shirt/pants/shoes/underwear combo and place them in the bathroom,
- slice the fruits/veggies of your shake and mix them with whatever else you put in, and place it in a plastic box in the fridge (as much as possible anyway). Substitute this with preparing the tea / coffee pot, putting the right amount of water in the heater...
- any other tasks you typically do in the morning but can prepare the night before.

The idea is to think of the 5-6 nice things waiting for you first thing you wake up, not the 5-6 little things that will annoy you at work

It doesn't even cost any time as you save the time in the morning that you spend at night. Morning runs are awesome too, but in my experience they don't make anything easier that comes before the run, just everything after.
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