As I'm sure a lot of people on this site have done or are doing, I'm in high school. To be specific this is my junior year, and I'm hoping to make it good so that when I reach senior I will be impressive. At any rate, as anyone knows, high school is not only the most important part of growing as a young adult, but also the most stressful environment on Earth. School work, peers, trying to make friends, homework, acne, etc. etc. My main focus here is on sleep.
So here's how sleep goes for me: Go to bed at 10:30, surf the web on iPod 'til around 11:30(like an idiot), than dock the thing on my alarm clock and wake up at 5:00 than get out of bed at 5:15. As you can see I'm only getting...around 7 hours instead of my needed 8 to 9 and that really throws a monkey wrench in to my day. On the inside I'm pretty good guy, I've got the gift of gab, I know how to talk about the issues(real things not,"OMG, Brett is totally going out with Milanda" or celebrity bulls*&^) and I can draw and do a bunch of other things. I want to do a lot of things to make my self better(work out, practice drawing more, homework, Rosetta, etc.) but I never get that urge to, it's like as soon as I get home my body goes on auto-pilot and my brain takes a back seat by force. I don't like that, I know what I need to do to improve myself, I'm told daily that I have great potential, and I do believe I can do just short of everything, but I never get that "oomph". Y'know that sudden feel to go,"Yeah, let's do this!" and I want that.
I was wondering if anyone here on the Escapist has gone through what I'm going through and knows a trick or two around it. Should I take vitamins? Take a nap when I get home after school? Hot showers? Tea? Ancient Maori warrior ritual of tranquil rage? Anyways, thanks for looking at this and if anyone has any advice at all to give me, I'll appreciate it.
So here's how sleep goes for me: Go to bed at 10:30, surf the web on iPod 'til around 11:30(like an idiot), than dock the thing on my alarm clock and wake up at 5:00 than get out of bed at 5:15. As you can see I'm only getting...around 7 hours instead of my needed 8 to 9 and that really throws a monkey wrench in to my day. On the inside I'm pretty good guy, I've got the gift of gab, I know how to talk about the issues(real things not,"OMG, Brett is totally going out with Milanda" or celebrity bulls*&^) and I can draw and do a bunch of other things. I want to do a lot of things to make my self better(work out, practice drawing more, homework, Rosetta, etc.) but I never get that urge to, it's like as soon as I get home my body goes on auto-pilot and my brain takes a back seat by force. I don't like that, I know what I need to do to improve myself, I'm told daily that I have great potential, and I do believe I can do just short of everything, but I never get that "oomph". Y'know that sudden feel to go,"Yeah, let's do this!" and I want that.
I was wondering if anyone here on the Escapist has gone through what I'm going through and knows a trick or two around it. Should I take vitamins? Take a nap when I get home after school? Hot showers? Tea? Ancient Maori warrior ritual of tranquil rage? Anyways, thanks for looking at this and if anyone has any advice at all to give me, I'll appreciate it.