The fix to my experiment?

Yesterday I wrote a 2 month update on my west coast hours living on the east coast experiment. Last night, I had trouble sleeping (again) after trying to go to bed early and ended up falling asleep after a couple hours of laying in bed. This morning, I woke up at close to 10am and felt the best I have all week. I ended up sleeping over 8 hours still.

It kind of hit me then and there on perhaps why my experiment hasn’t been as successful: I’ve been trying to force things too much. One of the benefits of working west coast hours was to get more sleep and go to bed later — well I’ve realized I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier in order to wake up earlier. It’s a silly realization that for this to be successful, I’ll need to just let things happen a bit more naturally. Let me body decide when to go to bed and wake up.

During my last week in New York and the next month in Playa del Carmen, I’m planning on just going with the flow. If I need to stay up later, I’ll stay up later and go to bed when I want. I’ll wake up when I want (within reason) and try not to force the gym sessions and activities in the morning.

This experiment was about finding my ideal sleep/work/leisure schedule and all I’ve been doing is trying to shift my sleep/work/leisure schedule around rather than letting my body decide.

We’ll see how it goes.