Busy, Busy, Waking up Early
Jun. 6th, 2025 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWhew. It's been a busy week. It's a good thing we came home from Italy Saturday, giving ourselves an easy day at home Sunday instead of booking the trip all the way through Sunday, because I've been go-go-go at work all week.
We've done an "AI innovation week" this week. It's kind of like a hackathon. The upshot is that it's been another 12 hours of work on top of an already full schedule this week.
Where am I finding the extra time for extra work? Would you believe... in the mornings. Well, okay, there were two 9pm+ evenings this week, but I've actually been waking up early every day. It's jet lag coming back from Italy.
I've been waking up at 5am, give or take 15 minutes, every day this week. But rather than toss and turn in bed I've been getting up and starting my day. I'm not starting work at 5am but getting some of my personal time in. Then I've been starting work at 6:30 or 7am.
This is an approach similar to what I started doing when I was traveling to Asia frequently for work many years ago. Traveling 8-9 time zones west I'd wake up stupid early in the morning for the next 5-6 days. Rather than suffer the jet lag I decided to make it work for me. I'd start my day as early as 4am, getting things done before breakfast and going out to meet clients for the day.
The only drawback to this approach of starting each day early was that I'd poop out early. And that's been happening this week, too. Last night I laid down for bed at 7:30pm!
Now that the work-week's winding down I hope that my jetlag will wind down, too, and I'll be able to get back onto a normal schedule this weekend.
We've done an "AI innovation week" this week. It's kind of like a hackathon. The upshot is that it's been another 12 hours of work on top of an already full schedule this week.
Where am I finding the extra time for extra work? Would you believe... in the mornings. Well, okay, there were two 9pm+ evenings this week, but I've actually been waking up early every day. It's jet lag coming back from Italy.
I've been waking up at 5am, give or take 15 minutes, every day this week. But rather than toss and turn in bed I've been getting up and starting my day. I'm not starting work at 5am but getting some of my personal time in. Then I've been starting work at 6:30 or 7am.
This is an approach similar to what I started doing when I was traveling to Asia frequently for work many years ago. Traveling 8-9 time zones west I'd wake up stupid early in the morning for the next 5-6 days. Rather than suffer the jet lag I decided to make it work for me. I'd start my day as early as 4am, getting things done before breakfast and going out to meet clients for the day.
The only drawback to this approach of starting each day early was that I'd poop out early. And that's been happening this week, too. Last night I laid down for bed at 7:30pm!
Now that the work-week's winding down I hope that my jetlag will wind down, too, and I'll be able to get back onto a normal schedule this weekend.
