Clojurians Log v2

Is anyone here doing the Miracle Morning? I wonder what it will do, getting up so early and less sleep

seems like fun. i started today 🙂

@robert-stuttaford: are you also reading the book?

i love that it's just an hour, and that it packs reading, writing, meditation and exercise in. i've never done affirmations or visualisations before, so no idea how that'll work out, but the rest i've done plenty of, and they're great

i finished reading the book yesterday

it's short

@robert-stuttaford: you are fast! did you find an accountability partner?

just over 100 pages

not yet!

@robert-stuttaford: we could become each others if you want

i skipped those pieces. i'll read and see what it involves 🙂

lol ok. well, I'm a little bit scared... don't want to become more tired than I already am right now... still working on the caffeine

one of my problems is that I never fall asleep before midnight, so I'd get up at 5 AM that would be a short night for me

making a spreadsheet with columns for dates and rows for habits is also a very simple way to track things

why don't you fall asleep? you don't want to? or you want to, but can not?

@robert-stuttaford: yeah, well actually I'm very good at building habits. 5 years on a healthy diet, exercising without skipping etc

want to but can not

just too awake

even when I'm tired

have you tried all the tricks? no light, no devices, eating appropriately, slightly cool room, etc etc

yes, I've tried it all. maybe light sleep deprivation would work, but then I would have to be very disciplined to get out

arianna huffington just wrote a book about it http://www.fastcompany.com/3060801/your-most-productive-self/heres-arianna-huffingtons-recipe-for-a-great-night-of-sleep

@robert-stuttaford: great, I'm going to read the article.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/unbeatable-mind-podcast-mark/id955637330 episode 13 with Kirk Parseley is very good too

i don't struggle to fall asleep at all, but my wife does. hence my knowledge

i don't need a reason, i just need a place 🙂

exhausting your body and your brain with exercise helps too

the one thing about the podcast is being careful of using e.g. melatonin, because if you take it regularly, your body stops producing it naturally

podcast?

ah sorry

🙂

I was still reading the article

I've taken melatonin for years, but I've gradually weaned off. Stopped it a few weeks ago

the thing Hal says in the book is not to wake up so early that you're not functional. the main thing is to have this plan and intention for your first waking hour

I have a morning routine for a year now

meditation

most people already fill that hour with unavoidables, and so he says wake up earlier

I've recently added exercise

you're freelance now, right, so it's really all up to you

true. I think I'll experiment with getting up earlier, just slightly and see what effect it has on sleeping in

My wife needs 9 hours of sleep and she has no problems getting to sleep

if you exercise and meditate in the morning already, then you're basically already set

yeah

because those likely use an hour already

just earlier

just a bit of reorg

But great to hear you're going to try it @robert-stuttaford !

kinda been ready for something like this for a while 🙂

I've submitted the youtube talk to HN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uRp7BoPVY Would love to have a subcommunity of programmers that do this

sorry, this is the link to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12242110

yeah. i reckon anyone can benefit

as devs, we're usually detail focused and quite absorbed by what we do, so introducing some intentional focus on other areas is good

how far through the book are you? i'd be happy to partner up

worst thing that can happen is that we learn something 😄

35% now, I think I'll finish it within a few days at least

ok, I'll set the alarm clock at 7:00 tomorrow

hey we're in the same timezone

cool

this is quite interesting: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Buddhist-monks-sleep-so-little

finished listening to the podcast, good information. probably not a good idea to sleep deprive myself below 7 hours 😉

-grin-