Day 8 - Balance

Second Monday of the Challenge. After Friday at work and my slow down, felt I kicked it back up a notch today.

Day 8 results
Wake 5 am - Done
Meditate - Done (25 mins)
Work Goals - Done
Daily Blog Entry - Done
Yoga - Done (30 minutes)
Evening Prep - Done
Home work time - Done

The habits are coming easier, and in general, the challenge is flowing pretty smooth at this point. I still need my checklist, but I roll from one task to the next easily without usually realizing it.

Getting up is still my hardest job of the day, with every ounce of my sleeping mind wanting to stay under the covers and not move. I also woke at 3:20 again this morning, although was able to go to sleep again quickly.

There was a comment by Dr Wayne Dyer, that always....well...scares me...lol. He mentioned that when you wake automatically early in the morning, its your absolute best time to get up, its when you are most open to communication with 'yourself', your intuition, your spirit, ect. Best time to write, or meditate, or whatever comes naturally to you. This 3:30 in the morning stuff for me, its not amusing. If he is right, and 3:30 is my time.....BAH. Guess for now I will work on 5 am first, and if the 3:30 doesn't go away, I will incrementally back up my waking time to see what happens. Although I would like to talk to my 'spirit' or the universe or whomever happens to control this, about adjusting that time to a slightly better alternative if possible. I would like to avoid seeing 3:30 am outside of bed until maybe we have children if at all possible. :)

Contemplating my meditation tasks, may have to do some studying on how to tackle my time spent under contemplation in the mornings. Don't want to ask too much of myself in this challenge, but I want to keep it productive. There is a balance in the act of balancing it would appear.