Wednesday, January 18, 2006

seeing time--add on

Oh!  I thought of the other main thing I wanted to say in my last post!  Better late than never, right?

Another aspect of the leave time vs. arriving time is going to bed (and this is flylady's idea).  Instead of saying to myself "be in bed by 11:00." I tell myself, "start getting ready for bed by 10:30."  That way if I am sleepy, I go through my before bed routine fast and am asleep soon.  But, if I am not sleepy, I am still on my way to bed but am able to spend more time reading without feeling guilty and without a computer screen in my face stopping me from feeling the "sleepies."

As a result, I have been blessed because I never lie awake in bed unable to sleep.  If it takes me more than 3 minutes to fall asleep after I turn out the light then I consider that a long time to go to sleep! 

Jan 18, 2006 8:31:46 PM | flybaby

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Bethany

Good grief. I never just fall asleep. It drives me nuts. And then I sleep so light....anything wakes me up. But I like waking up several times in the night (it doesn't take me long to fall asleep again) because it makes the night feel longer than when I just sleep straight through.

Okay...I'm weird.

Posted by: Bethany | Friday, January 20, 2006 at 01:31 PM

Suzan

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Posted by: Suzan | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 08:48 PM

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seeing time One way Flylady has changed me is in the way I see time. First of all, I no longer see hours. I see sets of 15 minutes. For example, "I am meeting friends at 2, and it is now almost 12:30. That means I have 6 sets of 15 minutes. That means I can get 5 things done and take a little 'me time' too." I didn't even realize this had changed until this morning when I was going to the breakfast stand and thought, "alright, I have 8 sets of 15 min; what am I going to get done this morning?" Another thing that has changed about how I think about time is I no longer think about the arriving time--I only think about the departing time. When my friend asked me, when are you going to be here, I answered with "I will leave here are 4:45. So, I should be there between 5 and 5:30." This way I don't have to feel guilty about heavy traffic and rush to get there at a very specific time. All I need to do is be faithful and leave at 4:45. So, how does this work with other things that start at a specific time? Well, since I live in Taiwan, I don't have to worry too much with appointments. At many doctors' offices we are given numbers, and I know approx. when number 42 should be called so I will just leave my house at a certain time. If I am there and he is still at 30, its ok because I brought something to do. If I am there and he is on number 48, its ok because the nurse will work me in next. (At other doctors' offices they don't have "appointment numbers," I just show up and know I will be seen within about 15 minutes.) So, here in Taiwan, the only thing I really have to show up at a certain time for is class. (And even that is relative as most teachers just show up within the first 10 minutes of class after the bell.) However, I still do my "I will leave here by . . ." thing for school to. I know I live a 5 minute walk from school, so I just tell myself that I will leave 15 minutes before I need to be at school. Thus, on my calender, I have leave times, not arrive times written down. This has made a world of difference for me. (I'm not sure if this last thing is a "flylady" thing, but it changed as I became a flybaby--so I'm still giving her credit for changing this in me.) Oops, I have now gone over into my next 15 minute block by 2 minutes. I gotta jet for now. Off to do some room rescuing!!
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