snooze
I’ve had trouble waking up early lately. Usually I press the snooze button on my alarm clock 4 or 5 times until it turns off by itself. This usually results in me waking up at 12pm, which means I skip my Friday morning class.
Perhaps you can even take this snooze metaphor to describe how I live my life sometimes. Like how I procrastinate over the weekend to work on my resume, delaying to call someone, working on my assignments or even to write this damned blog entry.
It’s ironic that I wrote “blog about procrastination” in my to-do list a month ago.
I came upon an article on Zen Habits (a good motivational blog) which talks about positive and negative feedbacks. Basically , in order to change a bad habit you need to increase or decrease feedback associated with the habit.
For example, if you want to lose weight, positive feedback would be people telling you how great you look. Unfortunately, this might take a while and most people never get to that stage.
So back to my problem. To increase negative feedback for my bad habit (sleeping in), I would:
- Open the window so that the sun would shine in my face
- Put my alarm clock at the top of my cupboard so that it’s hard to reach
Now waking up early is only the start of many things to come!
Time to wake up!
Yeah, putting the alarm clock so it’s out of reach is a good one. I use to do it during school days. This will mean you’d have to actually get out of bed to switch it off. So at least, you won’t be in the comfort of your bed to fall asleep again. And, being the anal person about punctuality, I also put all my clocks in the house 10-15 mins early so I will never be late.
So… wake up!
Well, u can get those alarm with radio built in features and set to alternative music, make sure the power supply is not within reach, put the volume to max and …wa la! u have yourself a SURE wake up plan…. (but then again; having a sweetie to come n wake up over with hugs n kisses would be the best wake up call) mmmm…mmmm
procrastination. sigh…
i can relate to the procrastination abt losing weight..hahahah..it’s been almost 7 years already..
(but then again; having a sweetie to come n wake up over with…
YES!
…hugs n kisses would be the best wake up call)
No…
Rofl
At some desperate times during the wee hours of exam when im not suppose to really fall asleep, i often sleep near the edge of the bed so that by luck i would fall off the bed n wake up ^_^ hahahahah..
yeah, this happens to us all when I turn on the aircond for all our rooms lol
hehe.. maybe it will work better for u but i used to tie my alarm clock in a box and put it on the cupboard many years ago.
after 7 days i became an expert in walking to the cupboard and untying strings in my sleep.
hm.
oh but i read in one backpackers magazine a way to not miss ur alarm clock is to drink lots of water the nite b4 but not too much. supposedly when the alarm rings then u absolutely have to get up n go to the toilet. hahahaha.
I forgot to add number 3 to that list ! Jump into my pool !
[cazzy]
problem with putting it earlier is that I always tell myself “oh , the clock is early..”
[niss]
Ok , i’ll try to convince my housemate to come kiss me in the morning. eww morning breathe !
[angelo]
sighh too ..
[gooey]
since 2000 ? oh wow ! u know we were in school then ? oh how the time passes by …
[shaun]
especially if it involves morning breathe ..ewww
[voch]
hahahah . does it really happen ?? do you fall off ?
[mr foo]
yea ! that day i slept till 1pm man .. damn you ! hahah
[melissa]
tie a clock to a cupboard ? oh wow you’re nuts ..
about the water drinking .. usually i wake up wayyy before the alarm clock and I go to toilet anyways. Yes, I have a weak bladder
yeah..right after school starting to gradually put on weight..i’ve now reached a grand total of 30 added on kilogrammes since i left school..beat that!
Don’t blame yourself… Blame the cold weather. It’s so comfortable to delay a little on your bed ~ Becuz of this, I’d allocated all my class after 12 pm for this sem.
Shaun: WTF?!
Hhahahhaha
haha ! Shaun - you need a gal friend, BAD !!
back to jason’s problem, i share this problem with u….no discipline, no motivation, no urgency to do anything, i dont know y. …
I think im almost exactly like u… find it extremely difficult to wake up.. do u have problems sleeping as well??
[gooey]
30 kgs ! that’s like nearly half of my weight.
[742]
most of my classes are evening classes, but there’s one class at 10am
[stephanie]
I agree, shaun needs a girlfriend ! haha.
If I have 50% of your determination, I would be very proud, Stephanie.
[russ]
Yes, I have insomnia sometimes. That’s where the comics originally came from