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A week in a bchallenge
I got promoted… by my self. I was able to spend a full working week going to bed early, waking up at 6 and having a run before my usual day started. Phew.
Despite what friends and colleagues told me (a week is too short as a timeframe; you’re not really changing your behavior; why don’t you continue; etc.) my only aim was to prove my self I was able to do it. And I succeeded.
I also learned some good lessons that might be valuable in the future:
- if you want to wake up early, go to bed early;
- have a clear agenda; you have to plan in advance how to organize your evening, if you want to go to bed early;
- make your effort public; your ego will be a fierce allied in supporting your effort (and to me, having my President aware of this challenge was quite helpful
; - choose your rhythm; always go to bed at the same hour, always wake up at the same hour. This will help your body in assess the change.
- communicate your results; daily. Blogging and tweeting every night and morning really helped me in keeping the pace (see also point 3)
- resist. eh.
bchallenge. Day 4
Everything is becoming mechanical. And I’d say I’m happy this personall chalenge is coming to an end.
I really don’t care waking up at six every morning (there’s a lot of life out there at that time, I don’t feel alone), but I don’t like running in the cold anymore (and this morning we had 9 degrees at 6.10am) and definitely being forced to go to sleep at 11pm is the greatest sacrifice; don’t get me wrong: I’m totally ready to sleep and usually it takes less than 5 minutes… but where’s my after dinner time? that time I usually occupy with a mix of emails, work, thoughts, reading and relax?
But there’s one thing that makes me happy, just read the following bullet list:
- Wednesday: running
- Thursday: running
- Friday: running
- Saturday: golf
- Sunday: tennis
- Monday: running
