It's a new Day!

It’s 6:58 am and I am not only awake, I am typing at my computer. Not only that, I’m about to do my workout. Why is this such a big deal for me?

I am NOT a morning person. I like staying up late and often am crawling into bed well past midnight. I don’t know why. I’m not doing anything that important after 10pm. I just like it. It just never has seemed natural to me to be up before the sun! Getting up before daylight suggests that I am going on a trip or something exciting. And today, I am definitely not.

So why am I up? Well, 2 years ago, I committed to getting up at 6 am for 30 days so I could get my workout done and start breakfast before the boys got up. I made that a habit for about 6 months before vacation took it’s toll and I never recovered from that.

Well, we are 2 weeks from starting school. Home school, that is. My boys are really looking forward to it, I’m sure. And it’s time for me to make the commitment to getting up early again. It’s not going to be easy. I could use some support here. My husband said, “You want me to start waking you up when I get up?” To which I replied, “That might mean uncertain death for you.” I’d better do this on my own so no one gets hurt.

So here I am. It’s 7:06. I’ve wiped the sleep out of my eyes several times now. My eyes are still trying to figure out why they are open. And I’ve had my glass of water and performance formula. It’s time to hit my workout, which this morning is Chalean Extreme (brought to you by Beachbody who has brought you other great programs like P90X, Insanity, Power 90, Slim in 6, Turbo Jam..the list goes on) and I’m in Lean phase so Lean Circuit 2 is in the plan.

Oh… it would be so easy to go back to bed right now. Perhaps as a treat I’ll take a nap later.

Anne