Some of you (okay, probably most of you) have noticed that I am a late riser. I’m just sleeping in every day, right? Often I don’t get to work until 10:00 or even 11:00.
After talking to me for a minute or two and hearing about my hobbies, some people may conclude that I’m out late every night, painting the town red, so to speak.
But that’s not the case. Nowadays, I’m not the party closer. I could be, but I get bored. Moreover, my focus has been to be another kind of closer.
Well perhaps I’m just kind of old, washed up, and lazy.
That could be the case. I’m certainly too lazy to crop that image, but it would’ve gotten rid of the nice white border and taken time. But I honestly don’t think anyone thinks that.
I probably just struggle to focus, or when I work, I’m halfway working and halfway sleeping, Facebooking, or doing other overly-social or distracted tasks. Well, working from home, this is how I can do client calls. It’s pretty neat.
Not really.
My dad thinks I need more of a routine and to be more disciplined. Maybe he’s right. I’ll go ahead and go through my routine.
First of all, I don’t usually skip out on sleep too often. My job has way too much thinking and reading to do off of only a little sleep. I usually sleep 6 to 7 hours every night.
Since I’m often up until 1:00, this means I don’t wake up until 8:00. In the morning, I wake up, iron a shirt, cook an egg, and have coffee. When I have time, I often check my email. Usually I’ll get back to clients and tell them that I’ll get back to them in the night.
Sometimes I get up much earlier and go to networking events that go anywhere from 7:30 to 10:00.
Then I go to work. I usually work until 5:00 or 6:00, or lately I’ve had a couple of 8:00 pm nights. After work, I frequently go to networking events or similar events. I’ve been building a lot of varied and high-value connections recently.
After that, I go home and run. Sometimes I lift weights. Usually wound 9:00, I have dinner, which is very often just a protein shake. It’s quick, easy, and doesn’t really have much junk in it. Or I have Chinese. Or Noodles.
Then I work. My nights are divided, pretty equally, between doing client work and administrative work. Sometimes I break routine and hang out with people, at which point I work once they end their night.
I usually work until 1:00 am or 2:00 am.
There it is, Dad. That’s my ‘laxed routine that needs some discipline.
Reasoning
Sounds weird to some, I’m sure. I simply believe in doing things naturally. In the mornings, I don’t have the focus to work on taxes. I am extroverted, so I get energy from talking to other people. Writing emails is okay, but actually going to networking events is great.
Working at work is, well, time consuming. It’s challenging, too, but I really do enjoy it! The people are great, even if half of them have mustaches like they’re from the 80’s.
I pretty much make fun of them all the time, and it’s likely they’ll read this.
After work, I either exercise or go to a networking event. Both things give me a ton of energy… energy that lets me keep going until 1:00 doing client work!
In short, the reasoning for working super late at nights is that I always have energy and focus. This is when I should work, according to my crazy energy cycles. On the weekends, I go out with this kind of crazy energy.
I do work a bit, it’s true, and while my routine sounds kind of boring, I have fun! I’m guessing the people at my work know what I mean – can’t bring me down.