Waking Up

Amazing. Yesterday I read a post at Steve Pavlina's site (one of my currently frequent reads), about how to wake up every day with the alarm (this is different than how wake up every day at a specific time). No more of this "Yeah lets get up and jog tomorrow at 7:00." only to wake up at 8:15 thinking "Oh crap! Late for work again."

The method and logic was so simple it seems silly. Train yourself to get up with the alarm when you are fully awake and not under the negative influence of (in my case) deathly low blood pressure.

Yesterday I spent forty-five minutes "training". As per the instructions, I arranged the environment to match my normal sleeping environment, PJs and all. I set the alarm to go off in two minutes, then layed down in my bed and visualized whatever it must be like to be asleep in the morning. When the alarm went off, I got up immeadietly, stretched, took a deep breath, and walked in to the kitchen to get a glass of water. I did this many many times.

While the training got a little boring, and I really had to pee aftwerwards, this morning when the alarm went off at 6:45 I got up immediatly, stretcehd, took a breath, and went into the kitchen for water. It was almost automatic.

I attribute this first time more to my will to see it really work than to having actually internalized that behaviour, but it is a good start, and encouraging to see results so fast.

The only problem is that once I was up I didn't have anything to do. I was not planning to run so early this morning this day, and Tomoe would be pissed if I ran without her. I didn't want to use my extra hours sitting in front of the computer - I do that enough already, and there was not enough time to really dig into any particular project before Tomoe gets up and the regular morning quarels begin.

I ended up going back to bed.

I have however learned my lesson. I will train again today, and tomorrow hopefully wake up with the alarm, but this time I will have a prepared "To Do" list waiting. Be it jog, yoga (yes I do that too), some little tasks such as clean out my hard-drive, practice speed reading for an hour, etc. I will make sure that I don't end up going back to bed.

It is really cool though that it worked in one day like that.

And just a note - my most visited and most highly recomended web-site/tool, Netvibes, has added a spify new feature that I am anxious to try out. You can now create different pages and tab between them. This *may* be great to keep my feeds related to various situations separate, such as work / personal, or it may just cause me to never look at whatever is on the second tab.