get out of bed when my alarm goes off

Clearly, this goal needs more than 30 days to achieve to receive permanent effects.

I have been doing better with each week. And I am continuing to work on this goal every day.

Thus, it is clear the first 30 days of this goal have shown success.

For tips on achieving this goal/working towards achieving it, look at my entries.

After more time working on this goal sans 43T, I want to focus on achieving other goals related to it (ie., take a shower immediately upon awakening; getting up at a set time on a regular basis).

A test of this goal is coming up in the next few weeks, when my husband and I take two weeks out west. The plan is to continue with this routine. To keep progressing.

If I do have a major lapse, this goal will pop back up on my 43T list.

Good luck to the rest of you.

Six days to go before the achievemment of this goal is considered complete.

So what is considered success with this goal?

If I’m getting up regularly with the alarm clock, yet not all the time, is this still a successful goal?

A friend who joined me in this re-patterning, learned that it’s better to slowly work one’s way into changing a pattern like this one. Don’t get up with the alarm clock the first seven days of the goal. Try two days the first week or two. Then add three days and so on.

In a sense, I’ve done that. Not so regimented.

In the course of this goal, my sleeping schedule has been changing for the healthier. A nice perk.

So once this goal has ended, and I continue to get up with my alarm on most days, do I get to say I’ve succeeded?

friday: hit the snooze once, then got up with the second alarm;
saturday: turned the alarm off altogether;
sunday: got up with the alarm the first time and got on with the day!

thursday: hit snooze and reset alarm to later time. got up then;
friday: awesome!! no hesitation. had extra time to spare.
saturday: awesome!! plus, got a couple of practice runs in with thee ol’ alarm.
sunday: awesome!! got in another practice run.
monday: got up and reset the alarm for a later time. got up then.

overall, the past few days have been good. not perfect. but that’s ok.

it’s starting to happen.

how many days left?

monday was awesome: the alarm went off and without hesitation, i got up. i wasn’t happy about it, but i did it and got in the shower. felt like i was in the military.

that sounds so terrible.

tuesday: different story. back to my former ways. waited to the last minute … did all the bargaining babble of a half-awake person is want to do … and got to my doctor’s appt. a few minutes late.

wednesday: alarm went off. i got up and changed it from beeping to radio. propped myself up in bed and listened to the radio show for an hour. it was hard to keep my eyes open, but i did. then got up.

thankfully, i was on time or early to work each of these days … the end result i seek.

yet, i really want to get over this nonsense of ignoring the alarm … i must get up when it sounds.

tomorrow? yes!

Not one day this week did I get up right when the alarm clock sounded. However, I was on time to work every day.

A mixed, yet good start.

Just read this article my friend recommended:
Steve Pavlina’s ‘Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off’ and this Steve Pavlina makes some great points on how to change this a.m. behavior.

I’m going to try his suggestions and hopefully this will start me on the path to getting up without thought, without hesitation, when that danged alarm goes off in the morning!

btw: this weekend was much better than last weekend. not perfect, but at least i got to bed at a more reasonable hour.

A RL friend and I have joined each other in achieving this goal.

We’re going to call each other every night and check in.

Plus, she provided some online articles that can help:

Steve Pavlina’s ‘Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off’

Steve Pavlina’s ‘How To Become An Early Riser, Part I’

Steve Pavlina’s ‘How To Become An Early Riser, Part II’

Tuesday and Wednesday, I did hit the snooze alarm once, but the next alarm I got up. That’s a big improvement.

o.k., i did exactly what i knew was not positive for achieving this goal: friday and saturday nights, my husband and i stayed up really late.

weird, but i don’t feel so badly today … tomorrow may be a different story.

i’m just about ready to shut down for the night to get back on track for this work week.

this week went well.

it had to. I don’t want to ” ... endlessly suffer miserably.”

• the first morning was the best. I got up when the alarm went off. it was difficult, because I was so freaked out about getting up earlier than usual (had a special event after work, which led to this scenario), that i had insomnia most of the night … probably had – at most – five hours of sleep.

• the second and third mornings, i was starting to do that “bargaining” habit i’ve been doing for several years now: hit the snooze alarm and get up with the very next alarm.

1. my husband said i was slipping back into my old ways;
2. i sat up in bed and grabbed something short to read.
   that worked. i have to remember this technique.

_one pattern that has been prevalent in the past few years:
even if my alarm goes off, i will sleep right through it. it could be sounding for an hour, i’ll keep sleeping soundly. a few months ago, my husband finally admitted that this drove him insane. this admission alone has been incentive to try other ‘bad’ habits. not anymore. i have to evolve out of this whole pattern._

weekends will add to the challenge. doesn’t everyone stay up late, and sleep in on weekends?

a great idea, though i’m not sure how ready i am to start:

two goals working together

O.K., Keep going! You have to achieve this goal.

Sleep.
I love it so.

But it’s causing angst.
Well, sleeping through the alarm clock does.
And I gotta listen to that alarm clock.
Starting tomorrow morning.

I know this issue of sleeping through the alarm clock
has ties to my childhood. Too long of a story for now.

I must reform.
Yes, now.
Or there’s h double toothpicks to pay.

So this goal makes its way to my 43T list.
Top five goals.