Get on a better sleep schedule

Hmmm…where did it go? No idea. I haven’t thought of it in weeks! So much for that idea! I have a new job I start on Monday, so hopefully that’ll motivate me to get out of bed in the morning. That was part of the problem before- I knew I didn’t have to be there on time, but now I will.

Lately I’ve had a really hard time getting to sleep again. I used to have this problem, but not so much anymore until recently. We’ve started watching movies in our room before bed instead of the living room, so last night I decided we’d stop doing that for a while and see if it helps, because they always say you should only use your bed for sleeping and not for eating or watching tv or anything else. We’ll see if it helps.

Sleep really pisses me off!

I was keeping to my schedule pretty well until yesterday. I didn’t get up until 12 or 12:30 (don’t remember exactly), which caused me to not be tired last night, so I went to sleep at 1:00 and didn’t get up until about 7:30-7:45.

Today is always another day, so I’ll work on getting back on track.

The good- I went to bed at 11:30 last night, which 30 minutes before my must sleep time.

The bad- I woke up at 7:30, which is 30 minutes PAST my must wake up time.

We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.

I haven’t really been concentrating on this goal much, but my sleeping has gotten crazier lately. I have stayed up all night and into the next night a few times in the past months, and I didn’t go to sleep until 8:30am on Monday night. I hate being so screwed up, so I’m making this my New Year’s resolution. I’m going to start off “simple.”

For the first month my plan is…

Go to bed every night by 12 at the latest.
During the week, get up by at least 7am
On the weekend, get up by 11am

After the first month, I’ll move the times closer to what I’d like them to be in the end, which I’m not sure what that is yet. If I do really well, I might change the time earlier, but I’m trying baby steps, because nothing else seems to work.

I’m really hoping this extra hour on Sunday will help me out a little. That and I’ve started taking ginseng, so maybe I’ll have more energy.

or maybe I just don’t have the willpower to do what I have to do to get it done. I always stay up too late and then have to force myself to get up in the morning, because I want more sleep.

not on this goal, but just on keeping track of the times I wake up and go to sleep. I did that for a few weeks, so now I have an idea of how much sleep I’ve been getting and my “normal” times for getting up/going to sleep (which don’t seem to have any pattern at all….thus the problem!).

I’ve decided that the next step for this goal is to make myself get up at the same time every morning, at least during the week. I don’t think I’m going to worry about trying too hard with this part right now, since I only have three days until I go on vacation, and then my schedule will be different.

So, when I get back, I’m going to aim for getting up at 6am every morning and going to sleep by 11:30pm at the latest but hopefully before.

Monday:
Wake- 6:10am (5.8 hours)
Sleep- 12:20am

Tuesday:
Wake- 7:35am (7.25 hours)
Sleep- 12:30am

Wednesday:
Wake- 6:00am (5.5 hours)
Sleep- 12:25am

Thursday:
Wake- 7:55am (7.5 hours)
Sleep- ???? don’t remember!

Friday:
Wake- 7:50am
Sleep- 1:30am

Saturday:
Wake- 11:20am
Sleep-

Sunday:
Wake-
Sleep-

Monday:
Wake- 6:20am (6.4 hours)
Sleep- 12:30am

Tuesday:
Wake- 7:55am (7.4 hours)
Sleep- 12:15am

Wednesday:
Wake- 8:15am (8 hours)
Sleep- 11:50pm

Thursday:
Wake- 6:30am/7:45am (I woke up, the power went off, and I half slept til the power came back on, because I wasn’t going to work without a shower) (~6.6- 7.9 hours)
Sleep- 11:35pm

Friday:
Wake- 7:35am (7 hours)
Sleep- 1:00am

Saturday:
Wake- 11:00am (10 hours)
Sleep- ~2:00am

Sunday:
Wake- 10:45am (7.75 hours)
Sleep- 12:20am

My problem….I hate going to sleep and I hate waking up. I never want to go to sleep in the first place, but once I’m asleep, I don’t want to get up. I don’t mind going to bed late and getting up late sometimes, but I wish I could get more sleep sometimes. I’m late to work a lot because I just can’t drag myself out of bed or I get up in plenty of time, but I’m so slow that it takes me too long to get ready and leave.

I’m going to start keeping up with the times I go to sleep and get up in the morning and then set small goals to work towards. Small goals at a time are much more realistic and less overwhelming.

Monday:
Wake- 6:20am
Sleep- 12:30am

Tuesday:
Wake- 7:20am (6.8 hours)
Sleep- 11:10pm

Wednesday:
Wake- 7:00am (7.8 hours)
Sleep- 10:40pm

Thursday:
Wake- 7:40am (9 hours)
Sleep- 11:45pm

Friday:
Wake- 7:40am (7.9 hours)
Sleep- 3:00am

Saturday:
Wake- 12:30pm (9.5 hours)
Sleep- 11:40pm

Sunday:
Wake- 10:15am (10.58 hours)
Sleep- 11:55pm