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Friday of Tuning My Equilibrium
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wrkinprogrss commits to:
waiting until at least 6:30pm to do any recreational reading or any non-Joy-Diet audiobook listening, today. I will not check *any* LJ pages until 6:30pm or later. Until that time, I will experiment with doing job work as my main priority. If I need a break, I can choose from house work, Qi Gong or other gentle exercise, tax work, journaling, Joy Diet note-taking, th h/w prep, brief cartooning, or possibly composing a note to T&N or E. I will allow myself to listen to music at any time, but if I use the mp3 player before 6:30pm, it will only be for Joy Diet note-taking.
To support myself in getting a full night's sleep, I will not listen to any non-Joy-Diet audio or do any recreational reading after 10:32pm, but I will allow myself to look through mail after that time, if I choose. My aim will be to be in bed with the lights out by 11:30pm.
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 wrkinprogrss
March 29, 2009, 5:18 AM
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| Excellent questions, thanks! Let's see...I think this is part of my long-standing difficulty with balancing "shoulds" and "wants" within a 24-hour day and a 7-day week--I nearly always want more time than I have for SOMEthing, so it's hard to be satisfied enough with a particular day that I'm willing to end my activities and go to bed. My main short-term reason for going to bed earlier than I did, last night, was that I'd hoped to get to today's farmer's market early enough that the white raisins wouldn't be sold out before I got there. I failed at that, which was disappointing, but it wasn't a strong enough reason to compel me to go to bed on time. I'm doing pretty well at getting enough sleep for good health, so I don't think the long-term values were particularly loaded for an early bedtime. By staying up, I fed parts of myself that hadn't gotten enough nourishment during the day (actual food) or the week (artistic creativity / contemplation--I did some exploratory drawing with markers). I was pleased with how the drawings came out, but aware that I was failing a daily goal, so my emotions were mixed. | |
 Molva
March 28, 2009, 9:54 PM
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| Oh, that's too bad. Have you had any more thoughts about why you weren't "emotionally signed up for it"? What were your reasons/goals for going to bed early (both proximate - short term- and ultimate - long term - life values/goals)? What felt "right" about staying up later, which need was that fulfilling? Did you enjoy the time spend up late? Just some random quick thoughts, make of it what you will. :) | |
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wrkinprogrss
March 28, 2009, 5:20 PM
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| I'm going to have to mark this one down as a partial failure -- I accidentally went about 15 minutes past 10:32 with non-Joy-diet audio listening. I turned it off when I noticed, but I wasn't willing to completely avoid recreational reading after that, as I had committed to. And I didn't get to bed until about 1:25am. I had wondered about going for a relatively early bedtime on a Friday night -- I saw the usefulness of it, but maybe wasn't as signed up as I needed to be, emotionally. Not sure whether there's a good way to change that or not. I don't have any immediate ideas about it... | |
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wrkinprogrss
March 28, 2009, 4:50 AM
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| Made it to 6:30 without audio or recreational reading. Then 3h15 minutes pretty uninterruppted rec reading on the internet. | |
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