91AggieLawyer said:
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I was apparently a non-white-supremacist when I was a kid, other than for school days.
Then at A&M, I often had to be in class at 8am but went out of my way to schedule later class times.
Then my first job at Texaco came along where I had to be at my desk by 6:45am, which necessitated a 5am wakeup to get there from my house in Richmond Pecan Grove. That job reset my internal clock, and I have been an early riser ever since. So clearly Texaco is a bunch of white supremacists.
This is clearly an asinine suggestion from yet another perpetually offended mental midget.
I've never been an early riser. At least not naturally. If I HAVE to be somewhere at a certain time, I get there. Yes, like everyone else, I've been late, but I've been late later in the day, too. I'm rarely habitually late for anything. In fact, I'm fairly well known for my punctuality.
However, through 12 years of school, years of college/grad school, countless times of having to get to work at 8am or before, AND having to get up very early for other things (workouts, rehearsals, etc.), I've still never been able to do it naturally, so a decade or so, I just gave up. Now, if I desire to, say, get up and do a morning run, I do. If I need to schedule a meeting or get to church, I do. If I don't need to, I don't. If that makes me lazy, so be it. I'm fairly productive -- probably far more than most early risers -- but I just do it at different times of the day.
I would trade it for the ability to be able to naturally get up at 5:45 or 6am if I could, but no matter what I've tried for however long I've tried (and I went at least 4 straight years of 6am wake ups to no avail in my 30s), it doesn't work. Race hustling aside, maybe being an early riser isn't what it is cracked up to be. At least for everyone.
I know people say people are very productive between, say, 6:30-9:30am and I won't argue. I've been productive during those hours as well. However, I've also written dozens of successful responses to Motions for Summary Judgments (and/or other similar pleadings) SOLELY between the hours of 10pm and 1am. Drafted, proofed, faxed (a while back), and filed. We had a guy at a firm I worked at that came in at like 4am and left at lunch. He liked the very early morning solitude. Another partner didn't show until 10:30am. Both were productive. Most of us came in at 8-8:30.
Yeah, you have to do what works for you. Some times I wish I could go back to the days of sleeping until noon (or some other time much later than 5am).
I am most productive in the early part of the day, say between 7 and 10. I can hit good productivity again later in the afternoon or really at any time, other than right after lunch, which I am basically useless.
