Plans

So, I woke up at 12:12 today.

Which is bad, to say in the least. It speaks of my slovenliness, the sort of behavior which I want to avoid (sleeping 10 hours is too much. It might have been enough when I was younger, but I think, despite the fact that my development hasn’t dropped to neglible levels, that I’m pretty stable physiologically). Waking up late is only one of many lifestyle component that I’m not happy with, including:

• Irregular eating: not keeping up with the 5-meal schedule I’ve laid out for myself, inspired by my brother. I suppose, also, that balancing the meals would be better for my health, rather than eating whatever I can find. Perhaps the in between meals could generally be ‘healthy’, and the other meals meant to keep up speed?
• Another thing that ties in with not eating right is not exercising, which ties in with waking up late. I usually plan on exercising in the morning, but waking up late preempts that. Without exercise, a 5-meal plan is probably too much; either too much food, or requiring too much self-control/self-knowledge to dish out the right amount of food.
• Keeping a straight view is difficult: this ties in with waking up late (in some instances) as a lack of will-power, since distractions are not something that must happen, at least most of the time.

So, to deal with this:

• Engage the will-power: I’m going to need to develop some more will-power. Some of it’s just practicing overriding lower-level wants, but some of it is keeping goals in mind. I can deal with the goals part with some notekeeping.
• I find that one reason I’m not getting up right is that I can’t generally fall asleep fast enough: ie I lay awake and think about things for a few hours. Part of it is not being tired enough to sleep, which can be solved with more exercise, but it also has to do with not dumping my mind enough. A combination of twitter and here blog should solve that problem (hopefully). Note, though, there’s a space between twitter and a blog post: I like my blog posts to be longer and thoughtful, while twitter updates are, well, off the cuff remarks. So I’ll either have to compress my thoughts into 140 characters, or think about them until I have something to say.
• For eating better, I’ll just have to learn the art.

Here’s to me!

PS. Here’s a good site that I’ve lifted some of this stuff off of.