get up two "snoozes" after my alarm first goes off

on this goal. By setting my alarm for 7:30 a.m. and allowing myself to wait to get up for the second snooze seems to be working out well. Some mornings I even get up after one snooze. As long as things keep going well this week, I will mark this one done at the end of the week.

Hope to keep it up.

now that I am not trying to get up so early. The second snooze now occurs at 7:50 a.m. I was able to get up at the second snooze this morning and get to work on time without rushing.

Got up at the second snooze this morning. Was able to get out of the house a few minutes earlier than usual.

so I guess today counts. I planned to work later hours today so I set my alarm for 1:00 p.m. Yes, I did sleep until 1:00 p.m. and it felt GOOD!!! And yes, it did take an alarm to wake me up. And yes, I did hit the snooze button. I did get up two snoozes after my alarm went off, so regardless of the time, I did this today. Hey, I’ll take whatever credit I can get on this goal.

I actually got up early this morning. I had been awake since about 2 a.m. for no apparent reason and decided to chill by listening to music with headsets on. As a result, I ended up not hearing my alarm go off at 7:00 a.m. By 7:02 I had two cats on my bed and practically in my face looking at me as if to ask, “Are you going to get that???”.

Although still tired, I ended up getting up a few minutes later and getting ready for work. I think I was just too tired to realize what I was doing, but I arrived at work early with breakfast and a cup of coffee in hand.

Need to work more on this goal!!!

and the snooze button. I just have to get this one right. Everything else depends upon it.

to reflect the “two snooze” approach. I’m finding that it’s working much better setting my alarm for 30 minutes before I actually want to get up, with my snooze button set for 15 minute intervals. I’m using my cell phone alarm to do this. Most alarm clock snooze buttons I think are preprogrammed for 9-minute intervals and can’t be changed, so my cell phone alarm clock works better for me.

Of course, I also employ my “two cat backup” snooze feature. Unfortunately, I have no control over their snooze intervals but they help wake me up with their purry, furry presence.

I’m just not the hop-out-of-bed-when-the-alarm-goes-off kind of person and I may never be so I’m just not going to fight it anymore.

I think I will have a better chance of getting up at the time I plan in the morning if I acknowledge the fact that I am not a morning person and that I do not wake up quickly or easily in the morning. I am just not ready to get up when the alarm first wakes me.

Instead I will begin setting my alarm for thirty minutes before I actually want to get up, with the snooze set for fifteen minute intervals. That way I won’t have to fight to wake up and get up when the alarm first goes off. Instead, I can take my time waking up and plan to get up the third time the alarm goes off. That will still get me up at the time I plan to get up.

It’s worth a try.

What can I do to convince myself that the extra moments in bed, relaxing with my eyes closed, would be much better spent getting up and getting more things done before I go to work?
I can rationalize this quite well during the day when I am already up and about, but during those foggy moments after I have hit the snooze button, the reasons for getting up early just don’t compare to sleeping a little longer. I don’t dare NOT hit the snooze button. I could end up waking hours later and very late! So I end up setting my alarm for a decent hour and hitting the snooze until I have just enough time to get ready. That’s not how I want to start my mornings.

I’ll keep working on it.