be more efficient

Sometimes I wake up before my alarm clock goes off. In a situation like that I tend to go back to sleep and sleep until the alarm wakes me up. Often I don’t even feel tired at all when I wake up for the first time, but I just continue sleeping because I cannot think of anything else to do. However, the second wake-up is almost always a lot harder and I feel more tired, even though I might have slept for an additional hour or two.

Yesterday a friend of mine suddenly started talking about this very same thing (I’ve never talked about anything like this with him). He told me he had taken on a new habit and now gets up whenever he wakes up for the first time, and he said it has worked wonderfully.

So now I want to try it, too. From now on I shall get up as soon as I wake up in the morning, no matter what time is it. Of course this doesn’t apply to abnormal situations, such as waking up to a loud noise or waking up in the middle of the night, but if I have slept for 6 hours or longer and I wake up naturally, I will get out of the bed.

There’s plenty of course material, which I have to read before the next exam week. Usually I get around to it a couple of weeks before the exams and then I’m already in a hurry. This time I’m going to try breaking the workload into pieces and starting now.

From now on I shall make sure that I read all the textbook chapters related to a given week’s lectures during the same week (either before the lectures or shortly after them).

I often think about things that I should do, but I rarely get around to doing them before I’m in a hurry. It’s also quite difficult for me to finish things off before starting to work on new tasks.

From now on, I will change my behavior; I shall work on one task at a time and finish it (if possible) before starting anything else.