Goal Achievement – Daylight Savings Style!

What is your first reaction when things throw your routine off? If you are like most, your reaction is to try to get back to your routine. But there may be a better way…

This past Sunday was the day that most of the U.S. “falls back” to non-daylight savings time. For some reason that I am not sure of (though I have heard explanations ranging from farming benefits to war efforts to electricity consumption), here in the U.S. we move our clocks forward and hour in April and then back an hour at the end of October.

For most of us, that pretty much only means one extra hour of sleep for a few days until their bodies adapt to the one hour shift. Most people seem to shift their clocks back an hour but leave their alarms and schedules the same.

What a waste!

Do you ever complain about not having enough time in the day to get everything done? Do you have a goal or dream you have been putting off because you can never find the time? Would an hour a day help?

You moved your clock back an hour – why not move your alarm back an hour too? When it goes off, your body will think it is the same time you have been getting up for the past 6 months. Get out of bed and take that new hour to work on some long term goals you have been putting off. This is the perfect time to make that switch since your body won’t be working against you!

Our natural response when our routine is disrupted is to try get things back the status quo as quickly as possible. Great improvisers, when their routines are disrupted, look for ways to make things better than the status quo. Don’t seek a return to the form that was not serving you as well as it could. Find a way to make it better!

Try it today (if you wait, your body will already be adapting to the time shift). Use this “routine disruption,” to your advantage and find that lost time you have been looking for!