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Taming My Inner Sloth
There has been much written across the annals of popular culture about the benefits of life as an early bird. All that productivity! The endless hours that stretch before the rest of the rat-race rises to invest in personal projects and generally bettering oneself. Which can make being a sloth-like creature in the early morning somewhat hard to reconcile with the demands of modern life. And yet here some of us are amidst the most unusual of circumstances. In my case, the past two months saw me slowly slide into my old ways — which are decidedly not in the early bird category - hitting the alarm off later and later in the mornings ahead of work. While extra sleep is always a bonus, particularly after a night of tossing and turning, it turns out that going straight from a state of complete inertia to working can leave you feeling, well, rather groggy.
In life before now, I walked to work in the mornings, and while I sometimes grumbled about the occasional rain-shower, the twenty minute spin in the fresh air was the perfect way to slowly wake up and give my mind the chance to switch on, process random thoughts and get ready for the day ahead. But faced with the very short commute when working from home, my natural desire to bury myself under the covers had begun to win out. But no more! And if like me you struggle to feel full of beans first-thing, here are three simple tricks to trick yourself into gaining…
