anjelmarie

I posted earlier, I did not start out getting up at 8:00am everyday, but I started by getting up at noon, gradually 10 or 15 minutes a week setting my alarm earlier.
I struggled and still struggle some days to get up.
the best thing I did was make a list of morning basics. This was so I did not have to think about what I needed to do.
Get up, make bed, pray, go to bathroom, weigh, medication, feed cats, shower, dress, face, start computer, breakfast, reboot landry, swish and swipe toilet,
this is all from www.flylady.net
Yes many a day I do not shower etc, but even doing 5 minutes sometimes gives me energy to carry on or I go back to bed and not feel self judgement.

I was not born organized, I was paralysed by the effort of thinking about what I needed to do, learned that getting up and looking at the list did not require thinking, and over the year I can now shower most days. My goal now is to stay up later than 8:00.

I do not remember where I found this but a insomnia site, but setting the wake up time sets your natural body cycle, so you can work with yourself and not against. And with depression we need all the help we can get!

take care,
G1