From the author: The article will be useful for those of you who are already tired of leading an “owl” lifestyle, but you don’t know how to change it. From Owls to Larks. The path of transformation. The article will be useful for those of you who are already tired of leading an “owl” lifestyle, but you don’t know how to change it. I will share with you the results of my experience of transformation. All my life, from the time I remember myself, I was an Owl, and I lived among Owls. I went to bed late - between one and three in the morning, and got up late too: at 10 - 11 in the morning, when there was such an opportunity. While still at school, I did some of my homework after 23:00. This was normal for me. Already, as an adult, having studied information about Owls and Larks, talking with knowledgeable people, I realized that this was a physiological given for me, a characteristic laid down in utero, with which nothing can be done. You just need to live with it and organize your daily routine, if possible, accordingly. That’s what I did. I was very jealous and did not understand the Larks. How is it possible to get up of your own free will at 5-7 in the morning, drink coffee, mind your own business, do exercises? By this time, sometimes I just fell asleep. Plus, the time between 11 pm and 2 am was very productive and creative for me. It was at this time that I wrote articles, came up with projects, workshops, completed what I didn’t have enough time for during the day, etc. At night, I enjoyed a calm stay in reality without the bustle of the day, without haste. This was my favorite time of day. I couldn’t imagine how to live differently. But for a number of reasons (if you’re wondering why, see the full version of the article at FB_LINK), night time has ceased to be a stable opportunity for me to be creatively realized and do what was not done during the day. I couldn’t accept it for a long time, hoping that everything would return to normal, as before. But the previous active state at night now arose unpredictably: every other day, sometimes less often. The stack of unfinished tasks, unrealized ideas turned into a heap, then a mountain and continued to grow. The hope for creative inspiration and progress in business in the evening often turned into despair at the impossibility of doing this. In the end, I got tired of it all. I was angry with myself, with the situation, and realized that if I did nothing, the problem would not go away, but would get worse. Then I decided that I needed to radically change the organization of my life, and do it as quickly as possible. I thought that if we consider the fact that I live according to an “owl” schedule not as a physiological given, but as a habit, then this approach opens the door to opportunities for changes. There are studies by scientists who have derived the law of forming a new habit. It sounds like this: in order to form a new habit in your life, you need to repeat the desired action daily for 21 to 40 days. 40 days is more reliable, almost certainly. For me, this meant that if I don’t like my old habit, then I can consciously form a new one. Of course, this requires strong motivation, and I had it. I understood that without changing anything in my life, I would find myself in the pit of a professional crisis. I took my diary and on the next day’s page, at the top of the sheet, I wrote with emphasis: New project “From Owls to Larks” (I came up with the name along the way), rise - at 5:00 am for 40 days in a row, no matter what happened, regardless of the time I went to bed. I was determined. On the forty pages of my diary, I wrote in large letters: 5:00 am - wake up! For me, this, of course, looked like a feat, like jumping from a high springboard. When my friends used to tell me that they get up at 7-8 in the morning, I didn’t understand this and said that it was better not to go to bed at all than to torture myself like that. I didn’t really imagine what it would be like if I got up at 5 morning, regardless of bedtime. Getting into the habit of going to bed earlier was the next part of the project. To my great surprise, it turned out that