Name: waking up early is the sh*t
Uploaded: 2025-01-01T09:46:07.000Z
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Modal verbs - A2

You know, you can change so much in just a few months.

Adverbs of frequency

Pretty much all my life, I've never been somebody who wakes up early and now I went off alone on a big step in my journey, on my path, which was to move out of home.

Past simple

I moved to a big city and now I'm pretty much independent, right?

I still have to get an apartment though, but...

And the thing is, I have become somebody who likes to wake up early.

Yesterday I started work at 10 in the morning.

So you would think, okay, you know, take your time.

I would have, like back to who I've always been, I would have gone back and like stayed up till, I don't know, God knows when, probably watch a movie or something, maybe even play some video games, I don't know, play some Counter-Strike and just take my time with it.

Because I like the night, I like staying up late because everybody's asleep already and it's peaceful and I get it.

And even if I wouldn't have stayed up that late, I would have at least slept till eight or nine and not even that long ago, this is like a month ago, I would wake up 30 minutes before work.

So I just had to get ready and then I would go straight into my shift and then, you know, I'd be done with it.

Yet, now I'm waking up and it sounds so petty or so flamboyant, no, it doesn't matter.

I'm waking up at five thirty in the morning now, pretty much every day, at least I'm trying to.

And even today, I mean, I was out, I was out today, like last night, you know, there was this party from work and stuff and I was out and about, you know, I had a few drinks, which is great.

I believe everything in moderation is cool.

Even though, I mean, I wrote down today, maybe I might quit alcohol for good, but who knows?

And, you know, I've been up since five, five twenty ish.

Yesterday I did that, even though I had work and I did not want to go to work like at all, you know, I didn't want to wake up at all and I didn't, I hadn't been sleeping very well, like I didn't sleep.

So my, unfortunately, my sleep was like bad.

And I still went to the gym, still did my laundry and all that stuff.

It feels like it does give you more time, you know, because sure, I mean, I can wake up late and go to sleep late, but like the rest of the world, like we do have, like the humans, if we were just outside, right, because we are, I mean, we are one with nature.

It's nothing, we can't, there's nothing that can divide you from nature, right?

You are, you're a fucking, you're an animal, we're an animal, we're mammals, right?

Anyhow, in nature, you would wake up around the same time, five thirty, or at least when the sun would rise, as well as go to sleep when the sun would go down.

There was this quote that I read, it was about drinking the water that the deer drinks, going to sleep with the, with the birds and waking up with the, I think it was a different animal, I think it was the other way around, waking up with the birds or something, because the early, I mean, we've always heard this, the early bird gets the prey or something, right?

So, I don't know, it sounds very cliche, perhaps, yet I do find that waking up early, it has given me some sort of power, some sort of control where I feel like, okay, look at me, I'm actually doing this.

I feel very accomplished, because I, and I feel more than anything, the biggest reason I do it is because I am so peaceful, because I have time, I've got time for myself.

I don't need to rush, okay, I need to work at ten in the morning, I just woke up at five thirty, I got time, even if I don't get anything done, which I do, even if I don't get anything done, I get to relax, because, you know, I saw this thing the other day, I don't really know where it was, but I saw this, and I was like, man, yeah, it was about what are blessings, or the greatest blessings in life, and one of them are, was, one of them was a slow morning, and that was just so profound to me, a slow morning, just taking your time, not having to rush, and feeling already stressed out, even though you've just woken up.

I also went outside that day, I made it, actually, so, yesterday, this is what I did, I went to the gym, I did my laundry, I meditated, I prayed, that was all in the morning, and it was just peaceful, it was great, yeah, obviously, I had breakfast and all that, yeah, you know, I think I might take a nap today, because, you know, my sleep schedule, I do have to get some, a little bit of sleep, but, you know, there are three main things in life that are really bad for you, so you need to be careful with them.

First one is alcohol, alcohol, we all know it's fucking terrible for you, smoking, I don't really think I need to get into why, alcohol, I don't remember why, I just, there's a lot of people out there, Rich Roll, Rich Roll, Andrew Huberman, I mean, those are at least two influences from, that I really, you know, they know their shit, at least, Andrew Huberman, most of all, when it comes to like, the signs aspect, and Rich Roll is someone who's sober, as well as, actually the, Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, he also quit alcohol, so, you know, I'm thinking like, oh, at least if you don't believe me, or, you know, the common sense, these people, that's their job, you know, I don't know why I'm pointing towards them, because, you know, I don't think I need to explain why alcohol is bad, it's just terrible for you.

Then number two, which is probably the biggest and easiest to fuck up, it's sleep.

 So I've been starting to take my sleep very fucking seriously, and honestly, I, in my tracker, which I will show you, here we go, so, if you go, this is my tracker, right, so in here, I write down, so this is a template that I got from a YouTube video, I'll link it down below, that you can copy that, it's just, you know, you just gotta use the tools, you can find anything, you know, just make it work for you, and you can find any tools online nowadays, there is no excuse, seriously, and I mean, I always hear that, I'm just like, fuck you, man, like, stop being so annoying, but like, I don't know, it's true, here we go, so this is my tracker, and here you got one column that's sleep, right, and so I was, all these, these are all nights that I slept eight hours, and honestly, I was like, fucking, like, I was feeling amazing, and then the days that I didn't sleep, which are a few now, dude, I was fucked, like, that was just like, I was fucking dead, fucked, I feel fucked, like, I feel completely shitty, there's like, so many parts, there's this, you need to go and watch this TED talk, that is about sleep, you will never think of sleep the same ever again, so we have alcohol, we've got sleep, and then there was the third one, which was, I'm thinking about pornography, but that's not, you know, it's not the one that I mentioned today, sugar, I'm struggling so hard these days, with not eating sugar, or at least keeping my hands off of sweet pastry and things like that, it's terrible, it's fucking, it's so annoying, because we have, I work, you know, I'm a head barista, and we have pastries, of course, and you know, you kind of get hungry when you're standing eight hours a day, you know, and I shit you not, for the past, like, what, a week, I think, maybe not a week, but I've pretty much been just every single day eating something sweet, like a pain au chocolat, I don't know how to pronounce it very perfectly, I'm still working on it, a chocolate croissant, so to speak, a fucking Berliner, you know, these, a berliner, these are like donuts filled with jam, or a fucking cookie, or a muffin, or like anything, a brownie, you know, and it's like, fuck, dude, I always think to myself, man, I shouldn't be doing this, and I fucking do it, and it's like, fuck, you know, fuck, I had a friend say, like, yeah, okay, I would always choose fruit over sweets, but if you, if you put me, like, a jar of fruits and the fucking sweet, they're like, it's a hard decision, and yeah, and I think we need to, I want to, I think life is really about, you know, finding that sweet spot of, like, okay, I always go for the fruit bowl, you know, I always eat the fruit, I never go for the sweet, right, and look at me eating salad right now, I would never eat salads, like, months ago, like, never, it's crazy how much progress I've made just for myself, anyhow, dude, I've really put my head down, I mean, I really am in that, where I'm putting my head down and just working, because I'm not posting a lot of shit about this, the only thing I'm posting about is, like, my journaling and my playing, that's fucking nuts, oh my god, well, fuck me, so, what was I saying again, yeah, I think in life, we need to, especially nowadays, because we have so many options, right, we should try to choose the right thing for you, right, but obviously, if the right thing for you is the cupcake, then you're not looking for the right thing, but I mean, like, what's the right thing for you, it's like, okay, and what's your sport, right, or what's your exercise type, it doesn't have to be the gym, it can be something else, I mean, I would obviously always recommend you lift some weights, right, but it doesn't have to be, or at least the sport, we should all play a sport, maybe, football, or you can do some tennis, or table tennis, those are actually really fucking good for you, because it activates a certain part in your brain, the eye, the eye, hands, coordination, what the fuck is it called, the coordination, at least, it activates, you know, it has the most amount of neurons in the brain, it's a part in the back, underneath, anyhow, you get to choose which sport you want to do, right, so anyhow, going back, in life, we need to choose what is the right thing for you, what's the right thing, and then, every now and then, when you feel like you deserve to go for the muffin, when you feel like, okay, I am in control here, I'm gonna go for the muffin, because you know, sometimes, you actually have to fight for yourself, I've come to the point where I need to fight myself to go out, I need to fight myself to have a muffin, to be spontaneous, because I can go too far, I can try to become too rigid, because I'm just, I'm scared, I'm scared of the, I'm scared of what could be, and I'm not present, I'm not saying, I'm not trusting, I'm scared of the future, I hang around too much in the past, so, to end the circle here for this video, I would say, watch for those three things, you know, and your actual step after watching this video, to me, would be, go and have a walk, go outside and just have a walk, and don't, don't make it this thing of like, oh, I'm gonna get amazing results out of this, don't be conscious about how am I feeling, how am I feeling, just go have a walk, you'll thank me later, you'll thank yourself later, actually, so, yeah, have a good one.