02/01/2021
If at first you don’t succeed.. that doesn’t mean you’re a failure.
It means you’re human..
I learnt a long time ago, that success isn’t something that happens straight away. Even if as a kid you ended up being top of your class with little effort, sooner or later you’ll meet someone more skilled and more able than you in something that you’re not.
If it’s worth doing, you will no doubt at some point fail.
It’s inevitable.
The only way that you can succeed is being able to dust off the failure and start again.
I massively failed at waking up at 6am this morning. So much so that it’s not even funny.
Physically I attempted to push myself yesterday, and do more than I usually do.
The consequence was that I slept right through my alarm this morning.
As part of my challenge to wake up daily at 6am, I’m deliberately using a gentle alarm on a lower volume, so that I don’t disturb anyone else, and I have to be sufficiently rested. If my body needs more rest, then it means I need to get to bed earlier instead.
Eating dinner late, and eating the wrong foods late all contribute to needing more sleep. And falling asleep after midnight meant the full 8-10hrs I needed was always going to get me waking up later than 6am.
Lesson learned. Let’s see if I can maintain a consistent bed time of 9pm, and see what difference that makes to waking up at 6am..
