Day 129 of writing every day.
Not having the stress of needing to be somewhere by a certain time (and staying there for however long your contract states you have to be) leaves you with a lot of unexpended energy. I find myself not feeling the need to get up early or hit the hay before midnight. But I have a study schedule I will adhere to and that means getting up early, and I did it today.
Our reliance on the 24-hour system of managing our lives largely ignores the changing seasons. No one day is the same and the amount of daylight versus night is always shifting with respect to the Earth’s tilt as it orbits around the sun. While employed, the stress of needing to start work by a 9, 10, or 11 and not being able to rest as I please made me want to sleep in and base my life schedule on the clock.
Now I feel comfortable enough leaving cracks open in the curtain so that the morning sunrise can slowly light up my room and I wake naturally without relying on an alarm. I might wake up even earlier than the alarm and still start the day with more energy. It’s nice being able to let my mind wander throughout the day even as I refocus on reading through the course text and practice coding.
I still don’t know how some people manage to start their day at 6 and squeeze in time to study before work, but it certainly is a good way to tell your employer off by focusing on yourself and maybe give them your leftover energy from the beginning of the day. I’m all too familiar with the drained feeling of coming home from work and just not wanting to study at all.
Maybe I’ll try and adjust my body’s clock more to see how productive my day can be by taking advantage of morning wakefulness. The grogginess tends to be worse if I sleep-in like many are apt to with the snooze button instead of enduring it for a while then napping it off a couple hours later if I find myself unable to concentrate.
Another goal I’m working on is a cleaner room, which I’m glad to say had some progress today. While everything so far had little to do with the actual act of learning to program, I’d have to say that planning things out is connected to the profession as any programmer and developer will need to have a clear plan on what they’re making and how it will work. The body and brain don’t obey commands as easily as computers do, but that’s part of being flesh and blood.
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