Day 6 & 7 - Balance

Its currently the late evening of the 7th day, I am catching up the weekend. I did not blog both days, I was pretty productive on 'work' goals on Saturday, and decided to lump the weekend into one post.

Friday was my bad day, and I felt yesterday I did well to recover, and today even further.

Day 6 results
Wake 5 am - Done
Meditate - Done (30 mins)
Work/Home Goals - Done (although kept it light today)
Daily Blog Entry - Done (although it was a retro post updated from friday)
Yoga - Done (50 minutes)
Evening Prep - Done
Home work time - Done

Day 7 results
Wake 5 am - Done
Meditate - Done (60 mins)
Work/Home Goals - Done (stayed VERY busy all day, extremely productive)
Daily Blog Entry - Done
Yoga - Done (30 minutes)
Evening Prep - Done
Home work time - Done

I managed to get out of bed without TOO much effort both mornings at 5 am. Both times when the alarm went off, I hovered in bed for about a minute, but quickly got up before I started to doze again. Would like to get rid of that delay, but I have to say, I did good.

One thing about being up at 5 am on the weekends when you don't have any particular place to be, you have A LOT of free time on your hands! I think this is a nice offset, since I am so busy with the schedule I have laid out, having those extra hours still gives me some level of free time to relax on the weekends. I remember Saturday, I trotted downstairs famished, thinking maybe it was after 1 pm based on my stomach, and the kitchen clock was just a few minutes after 11. I probably gained 6 hours alone on the weekends. Even if I did not sleep until 8 am most weekends, I usually was lounging in bed until at least then.

I will say though, its Sunday night a bit after 7, and I am toast. Went to bed a bit late Friday night, and a very busy weekend with no extended sleep, and I am exhausted. This is good, I will sleep well tonight, and it likely means I am making progress on regulating my sleep cycle better. The last couple mornings I have not had the 3:30 wake up time, and seem to be sleeping more solid. Although it helps that my 'bum' is finally healing after breaking my tailbone. Its not as uncomfortable to lie in bed, and getting better during meditations.

Meditations were fairly productive, Sunday more so then Saturday. Some moments of good focus, but still a lot of work on keeping track of where my thoughts are heading. I work with a couple breathing techniques, focus on my goals of the challange and long term, and usually will spend some time during each meditation visualizing completing all my goals for the day. I am not using a ton of structure around my meditations yet, still trying to see what works for me and push the daily habit and time spent over content at this point.

I am heading into week two feeling pretty pumped. After a productive and successful weekend, I am excited to see where this goes during the 30 days.