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My morning ritual works like this: my alarm wakes me up at 7:00, I groan, hate life, jump out of bed, hit the snooze, jump back into bed, and immediately hit REM sleep again. I do this all without actually...

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For the last two weeks, I've tried a daring experiment: I've been waking up at 5:30 every morning (GASP!).
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The next day, I was sure it was going to catch up with me. It didn't. I woke up at 5:30 like the day before, and I made coffee with the french press I had shoved up in the kitchen cabinet. It's the first time in my life I've made coffee in the morning. It was great.

So, I think I've figured out how it works. It's circadian rhythms. Every three hours you come out of REM sleep into shallow sleep. Since I go to bed at 11:30 PM, 5:30 is at the very end of my REM cycle, so it's the natural time to wake up. 7:00-8:00, on the other hand, is in the middle of the next REM cycle, and my body simply doesn't want to wake up.

Every day, I start adding new rituals to my newly three-hour morning regimen. I make coffee, make breakfast (breakfast! I haven't had breakfast since I was eight-years-old!), study the bible, practice guitar, and play World of Warcraft until it's time for work (my blood-elf paladin can finally catch up with my unemployed friends!). On top of all that, I show up for work a half-hour early.

They say it only takes two weeks to form a life-long habit. I hope I can make it all the way to next Monday.

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Last year I shut down my blog due to comment and referral spam. Having tried a variety of methods, I was unable to stem the tide. I was using pivot as my blog software. Recently, Movable Type went open source,...

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