Day three of my new self care/productivity without burnout routine.
So far it's going pretty awesomely, but this isn't about immediate improvement, it's about longevity. It's about a routine that will keep me accountable and productive for a long period of time.
I have written every day, and cooked some delicious food that just keeps getting better and better. I've exercised and completed the house chores that I wrote down every day. Also I've woken up early every day too.
So things are going very very well. Why is there such a different feeling when you wake up at nine versus ten? It feels SO much earlier to wake up at nine but it really isn't.
I woke up at nine the first day and it felt like I was up at the crack of dawn lol. Then the past two days it's been ten and it feels like I slept too long. Now keep in mind that I haven't been using an alarm. The whole point is to wake up when my body naturally wakes up. I had noticed over the last few years that I wake up between 7-10am so instead of going back to sleep, I'm just staying up. The problem is that I keep staying up super late and so I'm a bit tired during the day.
The last couple of days I have had reasons to stay up late, but tonight I am going to insist that I go to bed at a decent time. 1am at the latest because this 3-5am nonsense needs to stop. It really doesn't help that I keep having weird nightmares that make me not want to sleep.
I have super vivid and real feeling and looking dreams and I can almost always remember them. This is both a blessing and a curse because my nightmares are just as vivid and real feeling! And it still has normal nonsense that dreams and nightmares have but it always seems like something that could happen in real life. I also tend to have nightmares in bunches. A few weeks or months of every night having horrible nightmares and then they stop and I go back to my fun and weird dreams. And when the nightmares start, it triggers my insomnia because I just don't want to deal with it. And that leads me to staying awake all night and sleeping all day.
I don't like when this nocturnal schedule because I feel sluggish and don't accomplish the things I have to as a mother, author, and artist. Or even just to take care of myself and my health. And that's the reason for the new routine, and now this blog is going to be my tracker and my other accountability tool.
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