get out of bed when my alarm goes off

I give up!!

I’m going to add the goal “Get to work on time” because that’s the real issue here! Good luck all!

Well, this goal is not going too well at all! Um…I snoozed the alarm until 7:55. That’s an entire hour of hitting the snooze every 3 min. And I need to leave at 8:10. Luckily it wasn’t a shower morning, so I actually did get to work on time. But as far as this goal is concerned, I’m not looking so hot! My doc just switched my meds yesterday, so let’s see if that helps…

Did great all last week, but snoozed it Mon and Tues. Today there was blue sky and birds singing, so I forced myself to get up and get ready in time to bike to work (best way EVER to start the day). Weather looks good for the next couple days as well, so that’s pretty good motivation to get up.

Okay, two mornings in a row! If I do it for two weeks, I’ll mark this as done.

Not really sure why this has been such an issue lately! Although, I think it’s significant that I was able to get up on time all weekend when I didn’t even have to. I got up on time today, instead of the 30+ min of snooze I usually do on work mornings…progress?

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.