Utilizing your day. Rising the bar.

Do you constantly complain about the lack of time? Does your schedule slipper during a day as time goes and you miss some important stuff planned for the PM? It happens often to me and the missing part in my life is often running and workouts.
The always working recipe for me was getting to bed later, trying to V more complete tasks on the TODO list. Often, though, you can't make much at late hours and mind- or muscle-intensive exercise become unachievable at late hours even if you have a few before the day guillotine cuts your productive "today" from "tomorrow".

Ilia, my friend, taught me to swap the day edges for shoving planning and to make the most important (time-sensitive, risky-to-slippery, easy-to-defer, forgettable, etc.) very early. He wakes up at 5am, has first his swimming and workouts, and then starts the day. Very hard for me to do but I'm all envy.

Today my classmate, Kevin, told me he wakes up daily at 4.15am(!), has his run and workout, and starts (continues?) his working day at about 6am. Not that this fact would help me to wake up tomorrow but I'm sure such stories are exciting, motivating, and aspirational. Kevin answered my question "why do you do it?" with a very simple statement - "because I'm an person of achievements and love to get things done". Surely a motivating statement. And he's been doing it for already 6 years...

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