Comments on: Dawn or Dusk — Considering the Advantages of Early Morning

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:19:38 +0000

I used to be a night owl myself but now have reversed that pattern and get most of my productive work done early in the morning.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:42:28 +0000

Morning person. I get up with the sun these days (I work from home exclusively now), check email, usual breakfast stuff and on deck for work by 8am. Downside – falling asleep in front of TV, as Dunken mentioned. My husband, on the other hand, is a night owl and always has been. He found it really hard to fit the normal 8:00-4:00 hours of teaching, and now he’s out of that game he gets up when his body tells him to – typically mid morning. He’s firing about the time I’m falling asleep on the sofa, and he goes to bed late – often well past 2:00am. If nothing else we get ‘me’ time each day, which is pretty essential when you’re with each other 24 hours a day.

By: tercüme ofisi

tercüme ofisi — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:23:49 +0000

thnks

By: Dunken Francis

Dunken Francis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:10:13 +0000

Early mornings….. I start work in the city just before 7am most days, so by the time I’ve got up, showered, eaten, fed the chickens and checked the cows, dogs, ducks etc I find anything later than a 5am alarm call leaves me panicking! One of the great things about living in Auckland is that you can live a rural lifestyle and still only be 45 mins from the city…
Downside: I tend to fall asleep watching early evening TV on the sofa with my daughter…

By: Char James-Tanny

Char James-Tanny — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:21:35 +0000

I’m usually a “split”…my downtimes are mid-afternoon and way early morning (like 2-6 am).

By: Anindita Basu

Anindita Basu — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:59:38 +0000

I am a night person. Over the years I have tried, unsuccessfully, to turn myself into a lark, but have failed.

My last unsuccessful attempt ended two years ago after, for two years, I woke up at 5 a.m. to attend classes for a language I’d always wanted to learn. I learnt the language, but slipped back to being a night-person once the diploma was done with. So, for a little over two years, I was perennially drowsy throughout the day, “woke up” only after 3 in the afternoon, and remained alert till late into the night, beyond midnight.

Which makes me think – we’re inherently owls or larks; we can’t change.

Does it matter? To me, not really. I still get my bread-butter-work done sufficiently well, I still meet my friends and catch movies in theatres, I still find time to do volunteer activities, I still have energy left to have arguements at home. Nope, it doesn’t really matter.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:48:32 +0000

Early morning person. I get up before 5 am on weekdays and I’m on the road by around 6:30 am. This gives me time to have a second cup of coffee, walk the dog, and scrape the windows on my wife’s car and warm her vehicle up if need be. My Better Half — who nearly always runs late — appreciates it. Traffic is not as murderous at 6:30 as it is at 7. I get just enough of a jump on things that I feel ahead of the game. On weekends I sleep in a bit. The left-out feeling doesn’t matter as much.