Okay, I have no evidence that they're smug...yet. Wait for my study, America!
Anyway, this week while I was looking for something to distract me from getting my to-do list done, I came across a great how-to article on LifeHacker on staying productive after work. So I spent the time when I should have been focusing on a project for a friend's birthday/packing for a vacation/clearing out superfluous belongings that I don't want to move with later this summer reading that post!
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I was totally inspired until I got to the end, when they suggested getting up early and doing this shizz in the morning instead. They linked to research that morning people crush it productivity-wise. Yeah, yeah, I've heard it before. In fact, I've heard it while watching the news in my bathrobe up until the absolute last minute that I have to get dressed and go to work. I don't wake up especially early, but I'm a morning person in the sense that the A.M. is my sitting around time. I've watched full movies before my commute. (Getting through my Netflix queue is kind of productive, right?)
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Then this morning, I woke up (too late to shampoo my hair!) to this news: A new Brazilian study has found that natural early risers are more emotionally stable than their night owl-late riser counterparts. WELL, ISN'T THAT GREAT. So congratulations if your internal clock is ticking this way, folks. You're better than the rest of us.
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While I won't give up pajama website reading in the morning, I am going to stop hitting the snooze button and cut TV out of my morning routine so that it allows for chore time. Let's see if a side effect is that it makes me more emotionally stable. (If it doesn't, I will sob uncontrollably in disappointment.)
Are you an early riser? Have you always been or did you force yourself to become one? What do you get done in the morning? Teach me, Obi Wan Kanobi.
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