get up when i wake up

to actually doing this for the first time today. I’m excited and disappointed at the same time. I’m pathetic, yet hopeful. It’s just so easy to sleep until I absolutely need to get up. But it would be so satisfying and beneficial to get up earlier than that. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

but i can’t just jump out of bed after i wake up i like to lay around too much.

I forget this goal exists most of the time. But it probably has to be one of the most beneficial goals on my list. I’ve got serious problems, man. haha.

I’ve actually been thinking of this goal the very second I first wake up. I go right back to sleep, but at least I’m thinking of it, right? Usually I don’t think of it until after I’m already up and moving. My thought process is usually something like “Why the crap is it so late? I hate rushing. I was gonna get up earlier. Why didn’t I get up earlier? Oh- get up when I wake up. Forgot. I’m lame. Why is that light so bright? Wow my hair looks crazy. I look funny when I squint and pout at the same time.” Yeah… that sounds about right.

i’m back at school and i need to wake up in time for classes which means i need to get up when i wake up from my alarm going off. i’m on time today but i did lay in bed for awhile, well baby steps.

I’m going to have to change a lot of long-time habits.
My whole instinctual way of thinking will have to be changed. I mean, that’s the part of my brain that’s deciding whether or not I get up when I wake up.
I think it’s time for brain surgery. ....ow.

When I was finally awake and awake for good, I was thinking about my goal to get up early this morning (see latest entry on learn to play guitar) and how that definitely didn’t happen. In fact, I woke up late. As usual.
For those of you who don’t know (or if you knew at one time and forgot), I have a sleep disorder. It affects me in a lot of ways, but the thing that’s been getting to me lately is how it makes waking up in the morning so stinkin difficult. I’ve been sick of it for a long time, but I sort of gave up trying to fight it. Almost like I had accepted my defeat.
But this morning, it seems that I might have had a breakthrough. I realized that I usually wake up about a half hour before I have to get up, see what time it is, say to myself that I have another half hour to sleep, fall back asleep, and sleep through both my alarms. But if I would just get up when I wake up at first, I would not only be on time. I’d actually be early. Eureka!

Side note: this would help with my goal to be more punctual and my goal to practice guitar in the mornings. I’m psyched.

i seem to be able get up at 10am. before that i can’t seem to gain conciousness or will. but that’s fine. at least it’s before noon. 10 is still the morning so i’m happy, for now. i think i might want to try to get up consistantly at, like, 9. but i’ll take it a step at a time.

today i woke up at 8:30 but i didn’t get out of bed until 9:45. tck tck tck i fell back asleep and then when i woke up i just laaaaaid. bad me!

i haven’t seen an hour between 2am and 11:30am in quite awhile. i need to get my ass out of bed instead of falling back asleep or just laying around.