I let myself sleep in during the summer and now I am struggling to get up at 5 AM. A few months ago, I wrote about why I wanted to wake up at 5AM in a post called Early to Rise. My main reasons are still the same:
- Quiet time for 2 hours- even when my children were little I hated when they’d get up early and interrupt my quiet time! I would get annoyed. Usually it happened on the days that I DID NOT wake up early so I really should not have annoyed at them but at myself. Today, I still get annoyed when my children or spouse interrupts my quiet time.
- What I do during my quiet time is precious- my Bible Study, prayer, emails, blogging and just getting ready for my day ahead. Anytime I wake up late, I feel rushed and even like my day is already ruined. I do it to myself all the time. Today I get up at 6:15 even though I first opened my eyes around 5:30. Now, an hour behind schedule I feel annoyed at myself.
- Most of all its time for ME-no one asking for things, needing me etc. Really it doesn’t matter if this time happened during the day or evening or night, but realistically for me it won’t so I have to carve it out.
- Oddly enough, once I get into my routine, I really don’t have any trouble waking up, I just need to do it.
