Good Morning! A simple greeting that is said out of reflex for most people every single day. I have always tried to say good morning with honesty and sincerity. It is the first impression that you give the people around you every day. I have known many people who just say it out of habit and you really feel like they could care less about giving you a smile and a wish that your morning be good. But I digress.

Ever since being diagnosed with my sleep disorder, I have tried to do things that can keep me from getting sleepy as well as things that wake me up. I have found that waking up is a difficult thing for most everybody. I now understand that the rutt that I find myself in from day to day adds to my feelings of sleepiness. The more routine things become, the more unable to feel awake and alert I become. In order to change things up I try to do something different each day. Today, i am writing this at a way earlier time than I would normally do and I have switched up the order of what I am going to do this morning. Unfortunately, my commute can’t vary all that much.

I also find myself getting frustrated with the routine of the folks around me. It is like clockwork. I get here at about 7am and the guys that get here before me are talking about one thing or the other. They mostly have a negative spin on things and I have to fight to stay positive. Not what i am looking for first thing, but I don’t expect them to motivate me. Here’s the thing, I break things up a little bit everyday and it is working almost as well as the prescription medication I had. Go figure.