For some reason now, my mind is confused and subtley believes that 7 minutes is 10 minutes.
I tell myself as I walk out the door, "Now self, you aren't going to be 10 minutes early if you leave the house with only 3 minutes to get to school."
See, this is true, but it's too late at that point.
I just know the secret lies in getting up the moment I wake up. How, oh how, can I do that?? I want to, I will myself to, but I have yet to be consistently successful. Well, Monday I get to try again. That's the great part about a self-challenge. I can just keep trying until I get it. I'm not impatient with myself, and I know I won't learn if I'm hard on myself or try to trick myself with rewards and such. How does it go...: 'The slow and steady early bird catches the worm." no. "You can fool yourself some of the time...," wait wait wait. "Time flies when you get up late."
I got it. The moral of the story is: "Time flies when you can fool yourself some of the time, but the slow and steady early bird never confuses 10 minutes with 7." Thank you very much.
Once again, I appreciate the comments. Hope you decide to stick around Matthew, and good luck. As for chocolate, I am learning about that, yes. Life really is turning out to be shorter than I had thought. What I mean to say is that I've lived a good deal of my youth, and I don't feel like I made all that many decisions about how I want to live.
Figuring out what I really want is very hard. It's takes patience to sort through the important vs. the essential, conviction to believe in the dream once having seen it, and dedication to follow through and see it come to life. And those wonderful examples of heroes we were talking about before -- where would I be without those? Probably sleeping away life in despair.
So, there is milk chocolate or bitter chocolate, and not as many people are able to love the bitter as they love the milk. But seeing as they are all chocolate, wouldn't it be amazing if they all seemed, somehow, to taste, well... good?
Total minutes early: 126
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Friday, April 13, 2007
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2 comments:
First of all, you are doing great no matter how hard on yourself you feel you need to be.
I personally like to wake up and take a deep breath and stretch my arms and legs and well, anything that needs stretching(no I didn't mean THAT)....And then get up and get going with the rest.
Oh, and bitter chocolate is my personal preference...
later Jettie, Have a great weekend...!!!!
Blu~
Keep it up. It will soon be routine to get up on time. Try moving the alarm clock far away so you have to get up to shut if off.
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