Down in the Morning, Up at Night
This is true for me. Maybe it has to do with the lack of sleep and all that staying up at night but this has more to do with my level of positiveness rather than my physical tiredness after waking up in the morning.
Simply put, my energy level is at my peak at night, and I feel most positive later in the day, i.e. from afternoon onwards. Sometimes the energy drive turns on during late mornings. During this later part of the day, I am energized and gung-ho, and the energy cycle climbs until I go to bed thinking yeah, “I can do this! (whatever that seems daunting to me) I am game! I WILL do this!”
On the contrary, during many mornings I go “Here we go again; so tough task; so unachievable; how I wish I could run away from all this responsibilities; how tough life is; going to work is such a chore; it’s dreadful; why am I doing this in the first place; I want to stay in bed” and all those degenerating thoughts. I often find myself having to psyche myself out of these slumps and climb that mountain of energy once again (not always, but happens often enough to cause me to notice it). Like now at night I feel so upbeat, which is opposite to what I always feel after I wake up. My spirit often needs lifting after I wake up. This is not a recent thing. Has been happening since secondary, when I am older to notice I guess, especially with all that Head Prefect responsibilities which used to be going on.
Is this some common thing? I respect people who can be so confident day in and day out. They manage to find a way to unfailingly trek up those downward thought slumps daily or even better, stay up there on the high energy plateau all the time. Maybe it is peculiar to me, or maybe it happens to people who perhaps dream too big but do not have the apparent means to achieve it…
But there are always thoughts like that isn’t it? Maybe the key is to just push them aside. But I realized today that it may not be that hard anymore. I ask God to lift me up. Heard a Christian song in the morning today and instantly those morning blues went away. I mean, instantly. Yeah, instantly. Instantly, really. The thoughts just went away and were replaced with my gung-ho ones. WOW.
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I am proud to NOT be a nocturnal bird. I am an early bird. I would prefer to sleep and then wake up in the wee hours of the morning to do work. I feel most energetic in the first half of the day (probably due to cool weather and fresh state of mind) and sluggish in the final quarter (due to sleeping patterns, hormonal reaction and lack of energy).
And if you need more ‘gung-ho’ moments, give me a call.
Hey! We are opposites!!! haha… i can’t wake up in the wee hours like you do… biological clock too ingrained already… wah if we’re on a project together the project will run 24 hours a day!!! when i’m sleeping, you’re on! lol
Today.
5 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Finished report.
my shift will be from 12am till 6am. xD
I think we all have that problem. No one can be positive always, certainly i cant. I have my downs and ups too. Currently i’m having my down time due to some possibly insurmountable problems so i know how you feel. I think maybe we are all running too fast in the track of life that sometime we lose track of why we are doing things we are doing. For me, normally i’ll just slow down and rethink the purpose of living my life. Thoughts normally then get sorted out and i’m back to being positive again. Ya, i believe some spiritual intervention can really help to lift one up too. Hope you are doing fine! Dont ever let life get you down man!!
@Ji Wei: hey thanks for sharing. definitely gives me some reassurance and encouragement. yup i’m doing great, but well I am typing this in the night so haha… nonetheless hey i guess it always takes a conscious effort to knock ourselves out from our slumps and fix that attitude and give ourselves a lift… daily! renewal of the mind can occur daily, that’s what i believe in =)