pedanther

When the subject comes up, I generally think of myself as being Not A Morning Person. On weekdays, even with the help of an alarm clock, I get up no sooner than necessary to grab breakfast and pull myself together before going to work. On weekends, it's not uncommon for me to be contemplating breakfast at lunchtime.

And yet.

And yet, when I go away for holidays, I regularly get up at what, for me, is bright and early in the morning. Without any particular effort, no alarm clock required. Observation of the phenomenon has led me to the conclusion that, although there's something to be said for "holidays", the important word in the sentence is "away".

So I've been tinkering with various aspects of my home environment, seeing if it's possible to recalibrate my morning-person-ness.

And it seems to be working. For the last week, I've been getting up earlier (and going to bed earlier). I've been using the extra time in the morning to establish an exercise routine.

This morning, being a public holiday, I decided to experiment with sleeping in. Alarm clock off, clock face turned away, no pressure to get up before I felt like getting up. And I felt like getting up at a time when, if there had been work to go to, I could have grabbed breakfast and pulled myself together and still been on time.