Bees Can Fly, start now No2

I woke up early this morning.

 I did so on purpose, well ok I didn't wake up, I was woken up by my alarm. It was 6.30am, now that may not seem early for some but as I have not to leave the house for work today, anything before midday is early!

I had decided to wake up early and make the most of my day after discovering Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning (podcast, book and Facebook community, please do check it out). The Miracle Morning is a supportive group that help you to start your day bright and achieve your goals, Just getting up was my goal so I need to be more ambitious to be honest.

In days gone by I would not get up if I didn't have to answer to anyone, I would snooze my alarm to the point of it being a waste of time having an alarm at all. I may as well have had a cuddly bear yelling WAKE UP at me, slapping me twice across the face, then cuddling me back to sleep as I try to make sense of what just happened. The drowsy brain I seem to operate each morning would not have been at all shocked by the presence of a bear let alone the fact it speaks English!

Changes need to be made though, I am far too average, Mr Normal, Mr Dull, Mr heldbackbythelimitationsIplaceonmyself. I think that last one is a Welsh name.

The Miracle Morning helped me to start thinking about changes, I was already looking for ways to keep a positive frame of mind and become a little better at just being alive but I did not set goals. Goals for me were things I watched on match of the day; targets, they were what salesmen try to reach or what the green Arrow could hit with 6 arrows while fending off ninja attacks drinking a cup of tea and reading war and peace.

Mr average, he just goes through the motions, does what he always does and remains an extra in the movie of life..... but who wants to be an extra? I mean if the movie of life was a zombie movie then I would be having my face chewed off within 15 minutes, in the grotesque way not in the 50 shades way.

I would like to avoid the undead, or the relative obscurity of being that guy who looks back on his life and thinks, Meh! so goals need to be set and there is no shame in asking for help or seeking others who are doing things with their lives too to support me along the way as I make my humble beginnings, this would also apply to you but you may not have the same pride I have so it may not feel as weak to ask, but that is just silly, everyone needs help.

1st thing though, back to that early rise, well in order to ensure the bear did not give my a big squeezy hug back to sleep I moved my alarm across the room just far enough out of reach so that I would have to get out of bed to turn it off.

I still tried to reach for it sliding as much of my body off the bed as I could to reach it without falling but my balance calculations were not great and there was that moment when I could hear my brain running for the exit sneering "you're on your own hear dickhead" as I went face 1st towards the ground.

You don't need to wake up this way, getting out of bed may not be your 1st challenge but it is mine and if we don't tackle that 1st challenge then we may as well ride a unicorn into the sunset because improvement would all be fairytale. To be honest I would remain asleep face planted on the floor arse (ass if you are from North America) in the air alarm still ringing if I could, but aware I may do this I put a large bowl of water at the foot of my bed and my face was now in it!

Risk of drowning aside this worked for me, again not something I would recommend to you but anything that helps you to start on day 1 getting up early to make those changes. Note I really don't want you to wake up by planting your face in water!

So I am now up, I'm facing a whole day, fresher and more determined than I have ever been. next is the goal setting.

Join me tomorrow and I will tell you more about me, my goals and how you can set your goals and then Wednesday we will look at why. There will be a new bog each day this week then I will go weekly with progress.

Please share this, it may just help inspire people to reach for something they didn't think they could, it may help someone out of a rut, it may just provide entertaining reading for someone wherever they are in the world or whatever they are experiencing we can all start making ourselves a little better.