I have been doing a lot of studying recently about the mind and how one can get stuff done that needs to be done but doesn’t exactly want to put the effort out for.
I have a problem waking up and I found a genius thing that I can’t believe works.
See, I always get up, turn off my alarm and go back to bed for thirty more minutes. Now, I always figured that it was because I wanted to sleep until 7:30, but it turns out by setting my alarm a half hour earlier I can get up at seven no problem.
Huh?
Well I guess that I conditioned myself to want to get up and then lay back down for a half hour, so my body doesn’t give a shit what time I do it. Just that I do it. And I feel just as refreshed if not more because I am not rushing out the door.
Another one is with my Japanese studies.
I had 130 sentences to review yesterday and I was dreading it. So, I set a timer for five minutes and saw how many I could get done in five minutes. I only had to do this six times to actually finish all my sentences. That is only a half hour of work! I would easily spend more than that just dreading the thought of doing them.
Mind boggling.
