Consistency Kills Sleep - Getting Up Early

I am focusing on improving my sleep, unrolling decades of bad habits and beliefs for my sleep. Previous article

The hardest thing to unroll are all the habits I have around sleep. Such as meditating, getting up early, getting up at the same time, working out after waking up, reading before bed, not reading before bed, etc.

I did those activities for so long, it’s second nature to me.

I am stopping those activities because, I really don’t know if they help me sleep more. I developed beliefs and habits when I wanted more productivity at the expense of sleep, now I’m losing productivity from a lack of sleep.

So, I’m unrolling everything.

In a way, my consistency is killing my sleep.

One thing I stopped doing: waking up early at the same time.

The original thought was by getting up early and at the same time, even on the weekends, I would naturally get tired around the same time and fall asleep then.

I did like getting up early, because I can get more done.

As I got more done, I stay up to get even more done.

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In a way, this habit hasn’t worked out to improve sleep for me as planned.

Problem is not that day when I didn’t have enough sleep, I could struggle through it, the problem would arise from catching a cold by not getting enough sleep, which kills a lot more than producitivty. Letting myself sleep in when I couldn’t sleep well (for whatever reason) keeps me from catching a cold.

I associated with lack of sleep to degraded health to catching a cold.

No matter what, catching a cold would make me sleep even more!

I couldn’t handle being sick - that kills productivity even more.

By letting myself sleep in, or in my case, forcing myself to sleep in, I would get enough sleep for the night and have a better chance of staying healthy to avoid being sick.

Getting up early hasn’t helped my productivity OR sleep!