I am not totally surprised, I have had a life long struggle achieving my goals, finishing my tasks etcetera. I should clarify a little here, I have no difficulty completing things for other people, especially when it is things agree to do for them that I don't necessarily like or want to do, those things are a piece of cake for me. However, for some self-defeating reason yet unknown to me, I have the most difficult time doing things for myself. Most notably: things for my health or really important things.
So my huge plan to start today was, all things considered, a simple goal. I was to wake up at 4:30 a.m. Take a light jog. Stretch out and be ready to go to work at 6:00. This was going to be the start to my new exercise routine that would include a polyphase sleep schedule and a better eating plan. My regular schedule is to get up with about 5 minutes to get dressed, make food for the day and roll in to work between 5 and 10 minutes late (I say "Late" here but my work is pretty lax on that, as long as I am there before 7:00 all is well, but my target has always been 6:30)
How it actually went today is that somewhere around 6:04 I realized that I had turned off all of the alarms I had carefully constructed to wake myself up. So I missed my entire morning plan. After sighing in personal defeat and gently whispering to my wife "I am a failure" I rolled myself out of bed and began my regular routine.
Now there is a small triumph in this because I was able to get to work at 6:30 so I am slightly ahead of the "old way" and even though I fell shy of my lofty goal I can maintain a plan of incremental change. I did do my morning stretching at my work and that is another advance. I will maintain my eating plan and then my mid-day nap and wake up earlier tomorrow, see how that turns out.
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