One of my New Year Resolutions was to re-start my daily walk. It had stopped since last August – and I always found reasons to not wake up early in the morning to go for the walk. As so often happens, a New Year offers the chance for a New Beginning – even though logically speaking, it is just another day of another month.
Since Abhishek wakes up at 6 am, I have to finish my walk and be back home by then. So, I worked it backwards and figured I’d have to walk up at 4:40 am. For the most few days, it was tough — it just seemed an unearthly time to wake up. Now, nearly three months on, I have gotten used to it. One change I’ve had to make is to ensure that I go to sleep by about 10 pm.
I like the morning walks in near darkness. No people or no distractions. So, it gives the mind a free run. That kind of uninterruped time is hard to get nowadays!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Swaroop C H // Mar 22, 2010 at 7:43 am
+1. Reminds me of my old presentation on running where I asked “Where do you go to think?”
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2 shrimpy // Mar 22, 2010 at 7:48 am
Maximum city indeed – if an undisturbed wander needs to happen at 4.40am
3 pravesh // Mar 22, 2010 at 9:19 am
Wow,
That is tough. I read somewhere that successful people wake up early. I have tried to change my routine and the best I could do is to wake up at 7:00.
Let me motivate myself again.
But I feel bad for the poor kid. I wish he is allowed to sleep as much as he can.
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Pravesh
4 kasi // Mar 22, 2010 at 3:02 pm
4:40 am. …hmmm…
Rajesh you are making me feel “Laziest” of myself.
Kasi
5 Praveen // Mar 23, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Rajesh, personally i feel fresh if I wake up before 5 and after 6, I still feel like I could do with bit of sleep.
but whenever I wake up before 5, mentally I feel that I havent had enough sleep, even though physically my body is ok.
I will take cue from you and see if I can manage to get up before 5
wish me luck,
Praveen
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