I'm doing a theme week again!
Specifically, I have probably mentioned before that I am not a morning person. This week, I thought about why that is. Right now, there isn't any particular reason to dislike mornings, besides the process of getting up. Why do I dislike that? At the current point in time, no rational reason! I can set my own hours, do what I want when I get up, and arrange my schedule more-or-less as I so desire.
However, this was not always true. Over the years, I developed a strong negative association with getting up in the morning. This can be attributed to a number of factors: school starting at a developmentally-unhealthy time through almost the entirely of K-12, massively insufficient sleep during a good deal of college, unpleasant obligations upon waking—years of this before I decided to develop the usual chemical dependency! The opposite result should be more surprising.
The theme for this week, then, is going to be attempting to reverse this situation. My plan is pretty simple: since there wasn't all that much on the agenda this week anyway, I'm going to start the day doing something fun. I want to do this as early as I can, and continue for a significant period. My hope is that, by the end of the week, I'll be looking forward to getting up in the morning, rather than internally resisting the change.
If this doesn't work, I'm willing to extend the project until school starts, but it may not take nearly that long to change my attitude. Once that occurs, I can start in on constructive activities earlier and earlier in the day (particularly since I have more discretion in choosing my agenda than I did before receiving my degree).
