Logic? What logic?
Well, did you “fall back” today? After all, it’s the end of Daylight Saving Time.
I love this image and it’s questioning of our logical minds!
How long is your blanket?
Did we really gain an hour of daylight? Is it just an “mental” illusion, a trick we play on ourselves?
Benjamin Franklin first thought of the idea to have another hour during the day to enjoy the sunny summer afternoons by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring and to give the farmers more sunlight to farm. It means that we put our clock forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall.
“It’s the way we’ve always done it.” So we just do it.
But there are some valiant folks who have chosen not to! Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that stay on “standard time” all year long. And if you’ve spent any time in the sweltering summer sun in those regions you can understand why residents don’t need another hour of sunlight!
So…what are you planning to do with your extra length of blanket?
After all, if everything is in our minds, we have lots of options!
Maybe you’d like to use it to start a new habit with that extra morning hour and not sleep in. Your could start a meditation practice, an exercise routine, a “fun” reading time that you haven’t been able to work into your day (up to now!)
The morning is a great time to form a regular habit, because self-control is high, there are fewer distractions, and it’s highly predictable!
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Didn’t we go through this 6 mos. ago only in the opposite direction? I’m turning my clock back to age 39. It worked for Jack Benny!
Mary Kay, Yep! We get to do this every 6 months; just need to decide what to do with the extra hour (or the loss of an hour in spring!) I’m not sure what age I’d turn the clock back to (can’t really remember 39!