Maybe I’ve talked about this before, maybe I haven’t. I’m not sure, but I’m going to talk about it today: The List.
I’ve had this checklist of daily habits I’ve wanted to do for one full year to see if it would improve some of the bad habits I’ve got: things like read for fifteen minutes per day, pray a decade of the rosary, etc.
I want to say I wrote my first list back in 2018. I think I have it somewhere in some Notes App.
The list is of habits I want to do for one year straight.
I’ve just wanted to dedicate one year to this one list to see if my life would be different.
I think I want to give the list the old college try.
Now, I thought a lot about this list and here’s the thing, there’s no way I could do all the things on the list for one year straight, but I figure if I could get about 80% of the list done, I’d be better off than where I was even today.
One of the To Do’s on my list is to wake up at five AM every morning. Now, I’ve been a night owl my whole life, but have always wanted to be one of those people that wake up at Five AM. I’ve bought into the hype that early rising is a thing successful people do.
Thing is, in order to wake up that early, I’d have to go to be at a reasonable hour to make it happen. If I go to sleep when I usually do, around one, one thirty, then I’ll just be tired the next day, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of being productive the next day.
So today, thinking I’d start The List tomorrow, I thought I’d try to go to bed early tonight, but we stayed up late watching a movie. And I haven’t Skated the River today, so I’m not looking at going to be late.
For some strange reason, it takes me about an hour to get to sleep after I lay down. I’ve tried to go straight to bed, but that’s never worked out for me.
But I need to try something.
What’s funny is that I still wake up at around seven AM, even without an alarm. It’s like my body has an internal clock and if I could set it back two hours, I’d be golden.
Either way, I need to try to do the list and see how far I can take it and see if there’s any change.
I thought about posting my progress everyday with my list, in fact, I did try, but that turned out to be a little unwieldy.
So I’ll just post updates every now and then on how my progress is going.
We’ll see it how it goes, but I really want to get to bed, and try it out making this happen. Like I’ve said, something inside me tells me, if I were just to commit to it, even for a little awhile, I’d feel better about myself.