Last night at Book Club one mom mentioned that she just read The 5am Club. I had heard of it but certainly none of us at the table were necessarily clamoring to join it, but we were all very intrigued. She cut to the heart of the book – it comes down to the 20-20-20 rule, which breaks up the hour from 5-6am into three chunks: high energy workout for 20 minutes (enough to make you sweat.), followed by 20 minutes of self-reflection or meditation (coffee allowed for those who need it), and lastly, 20 minutes to work on yourself – unicorn space as Eve Rodsky would likely say. I couldn’t sleep well this morning and after tossing and turning a bit I checked my phone, and sure enough, it was 5am on the dot. Did I jump right out of bed to maximize the hour? No. I hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, then decided to go for it, dug through my clothes in the dark to grab workout stuff, and got on the Peloton at 5:10.First obstacle: Software update. That used up about 5 minutes. Made a quick decision to do the first 15 min class I saw – Cody Rigsby for the win. 
I’m way out of practice on meditation so I grabbed my kids Tonie box and the Calm tnie that I got them for Christmas, knowing it would be a short one too. It was lovely, and so relaxing that I contemplated going back to sleep. But I really wanted to get to this part- the part where I finally take time to pursue my own passions everyday – writing. 
The meditation asked me to visualize a birthday cake, and blow out the candles slowly. And at the end it asked me to make a wish, so i wished for the resolve to pursue this endeavor, really to just start. The thing I’ve been trying to start forever. And here I am. But the harder part than the  writing is getting that writing out into the world. To post it to a blog, to collect all my thoughts in one place. That’s where the introvert part of me stands in my own way. And the part that hates blog platforms and logins and passwords and technology in general.
Somehow the muscle memory did it’s thing and I made it to the right platform and here we are. This post is born at 6:11 a.m. Champagne Notes takes on the 5am Club. 
The real question is – can I do it again tomorrow?