The rhythm of a regular bedtime

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Today is the 2,558th consecutive day of writing five differently-themed blogs.

 

The rhythm of a regular bedtime is the foundation of self-discipline. What time we went to bed last night directly impacts how we felt waking up this morning.

And how we wake up drives how our morning goes, and our morning impacts the rest of the day. This is so painfully obvious that it’s almost embarrassing to write about.

Trust me, i’m fully aware of life’s unpredictability. But we can’t use fear (reality) of the “unexpected” to give us permission to not stay focused, and control what we can control. And we can control when we go to bed.

Saying we can’t is lying, in my opinion.

Imagine going to bed at relatively the same time for 2,557 days (nearly seven years) – how would that change things?

PS. Trust me, sometimes the only way i can get all the work done is to sacrifice sleep. The point here is that there are exceptions to every rule. And that we should never allow our occasional exceptions to become the standard.

 

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Two places at once

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Drew the “logo” in less than one minute in 2008.

 

Two places at once. They say you can’t be in two places at once.

There are many things we believe simply because we’ve been fed certain messages repeatedly for as long as we can remember.

Yet here we are, March 1, 2016.

But…

But i’m typing this now, Sunday, November 22, 2015.

Two places at once.

And what i’m flashing forward to – and deeply appreciating – is the fact that on March 1, the countdown begins.

The countdown to April Fools Day.

To seven consecutive years of writing without missing a single day in 2,557 days – five daily, differently-themed blogs about life’s five big choices.

•  12,785 blog posts  •

How is this even remotely possible?

It should have never happened.

Against staggering odds, it happened anyway.
 

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