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The author spent two weeks as a morning person.
- Morning people have a reputation of being more productive, so I tried waking up hour earlier for two weeks.
- Though I like my sleep, the extra time helped me work toward a number of goals, such as exercising in the morning and increasing productivity.
- My experiment wasn't life-changing, but it did teach me a thing or two - including that morning workouts aren't so bad.
I'm not a morning person. I love to sleep in and luckily, my lifestyle lets me indulge. I have to be at work at 9:30 a.m., which is later than most. My commute is also a 10-minute walk. In turn, I wake up at a comfortable 8 a.m., and that's if I don't snooze my phone alarm a couple of times.
The ability to sleep in had always felt like a blessing. But my boyfriend - an early bird - found it outrageous. When I'd complain that I didn't have time for something, he'd ask, "Why don't you just wake up an hour earlier?"
"If only it were that easy," I'd think to myself - until I realized that maybe it could be. Before I graduated college, I was most productive at night. But now, doing things into the wee hours isn't feasible.
Finally, I decided to find out and committed to waking up an hour earlier for two weeks. This is what happened.