Finding Morning Motivation

Finding Morning Motivation
By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent
The alarm clock goes off. It’s like a shock to the system. Your bedroom is dark. Other than the ear-cringing beeping, all else is still. You think there’s no possible reason any human being should ever wake up this early. No human being should wake before dawn to leap into a large body of cold, freezing water and immediately hike the heart rate beyond 140 beats per minute as a coach, arms-crossed, gives you impossibly hard, mentally and physically-exhausting exercises.
And yet, lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, you know: it’s something you must do.