Repeat after me:
Sleep is the most important thing ever, never compromise it for anything. You might think something else is fun at the time but if you know you need to wake up early, prioritise sleep! Otherwise you’ll feel like shit.
I had it all planned out: I had what your productivity gurus would call a miracle morning.
I cooked a pre-planned breakfast. I did not look at my phone as soon as I woke up. Instead, I gave those first 50 morning minutes to myself. And read Thoreau’s “The journal”.
Which I also pre-planned how I will read it. I mean just look at that:
Every day corresponds to pages where Henry David wrote on the same date. To compare the changing of the seasons, to be more mindful of nature. To look at the world with different eyes, goddamnit!
And I read, and ate my scrambled eggs with mushrooms and tomatoes.
And thought how silly it is that I never look to notice how the nature’s changing. And how beautifully Henry David describes his world, which is basically the same world as mine but 200 years ago.
And it was a marvelous morning.
And then I felt like shit.