On the fifth instalment of the AMC podcast, Oliver tells you why you should establish a consistent sleeping routine, and he also gives you a practical and easy method to wake up and go to sleep on time every single day, check out the AMC website for more on how to improve your self-discipline.
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Given that you have the inherent desire to change and the understanding that your current self is inadequate in its knowledge, motivation and discipline, (among many other things), how do you then begin to change your circumstances?
The first thing you need to do is establish a consistent sleeping routine.
This is incredibly difficult. So. incredibly. difficult.
However, if you can manage to do this, you are guaranteed success.
Why?
Because sleep is so. damn. good.
Sleep is the opiate of the masses.
Sleep is the bane of our existence.
If you can deny yourself that “oh-so-good” sleep-in and peel that blanket off you and struggle out of bed in the morning for 14 days in a row (it does not matter if it is weekend or a weekday), you will change your life.
How can a consistent sleeping routine change your life?
Here a few reasons.
1) Denying yourself a sleep-in means that you have successfully conquered your desire to stay in bed. This increases your discipline.
2) Increases in discipline mean that your affinity for tasks which you once considered to be undesirable will increase. The very nature of dreaded tasks is that the outcome of those tasks is usually beneficial.
For example, if you do the dishes now, you will not have to do it later, which then frees up your time so you can focus on yourself or whatever you would rather focus on.
4) Maintaining a streak of completing undesirable tasks then results in those once ‘undesirable’ tasks to become less so, which then results in you deriving pleasure from completing/tackling your responsibilities.
The rest of the entry is on the website, linked above.
