If I don’t get up, I won’t wind up in the office. If I’m consistently not in the office, I don’t get paid. If I don’t get paid, I won’t have be able to buy books or take attractive people out on dates. Running through that chain of logic takes roughly five to ten minutes, which is about how long the snooze on my alarm is, so by the third time it goes off I’m usually out of bed.
A useful hack for me is setting the alarm an hour earlier than I need, and letting myself do whatever I want for that hour. Since this is the only timespan in my day I’m guaranteed to be alone and to have no expectations, it tends to be an opportunity worth getting up for.
Weekend mornings either have an expectation similar to (though usually lesser than) work, or offer a whole day to goof off. Accordingly, there are some weekends where I don’t get out of bed until I either get hungry or get a wave of energy that makes me want to run around.
There’s a genuine value misalignment there. Sleeping(me) genuinely wants to stay in bed for as long as possible and doesn’t give a shit about the amount of time it’s wasting nor the fact that oversleeping is coincident with dementia, heart disease. Waking(me) has no desire to get back into bed and really wishes Sleeping(me) had given in sooner. Sometimes Waking(me) will set in motion devices to undermine Sleeping(me) on the next morning. A thing called an “alarm clock”, techniques such as moving the alarm clock away from the bed to force a transition. It’s a neverending war.
I set my first alarm half an hour before I NEED to get up, which also happens to be right before anyone else gets up. If I get up with my first alarm (or within a minute or two), then I am very likely able to get the bathroom. (And if someone is already in there, I am guaranteed that they will be out before I need to leave.) I tell myself that if I get up and do everything I need to do in the morning besides getting dressed, I can go back to bed and turn off all my other alarms except for the one 5-10 minues before I have to leave.
If I don’t get up with my first alarm, there’s a possibility that I don’t get to use the bathroom before I need to leave for work.
What exactly does “in the process of installing a TAP mean”? As far as I understand the idea of a TAP creating it isn’t a process that takes multiple days.
I guess I should say I’m practicing the TAP. The reason I said “installing” is that I don’t feel like a TAP has been fully installed until I’m extremely confident that it will basically always fire.
Why do you get up in the morning?
Honestly? Because I have to pee.
Habit. It helps to get enough sleep.
If I don’t get up, I won’t wind up in the office. If I’m consistently not in the office, I don’t get paid. If I don’t get paid, I won’t have be able to buy books or take attractive people out on dates. Running through that chain of logic takes roughly five to ten minutes, which is about how long the snooze on my alarm is, so by the third time it goes off I’m usually out of bed.
A useful hack for me is setting the alarm an hour earlier than I need, and letting myself do whatever I want for that hour. Since this is the only timespan in my day I’m guaranteed to be alone and to have no expectations, it tends to be an opportunity worth getting up for.
Weekend mornings either have an expectation similar to (though usually lesser than) work, or offer a whole day to goof off. Accordingly, there are some weekends where I don’t get out of bed until I either get hungry or get a wave of energy that makes me want to run around.
There’s a genuine value misalignment there. Sleeping(me) genuinely wants to stay in bed for as long as possible and doesn’t give a shit about the amount of time it’s wasting nor the fact that oversleeping is coincident with dementia, heart disease. Waking(me) has no desire to get back into bed and really wishes Sleeping(me) had given in sooner. Sometimes Waking(me) will set in motion devices to undermine Sleeping(me) on the next morning. A thing called an “alarm clock”, techniques such as moving the alarm clock away from the bed to force a transition. It’s a neverending war.
I have four roomies and one bathroom.
I set my first alarm half an hour before I NEED to get up, which also happens to be right before anyone else gets up. If I get up with my first alarm (or within a minute or two), then I am very likely able to get the bathroom. (And if someone is already in there, I am guaranteed that they will be out before I need to leave.) I tell myself that if I get up and do everything I need to do in the morning besides getting dressed, I can go back to bed and turn off all my other alarms except for the one 5-10 minues before I have to leave.
If I don’t get up with my first alarm, there’s a possibility that I don’t get to use the bathroom before I need to leave for work.
Ahh, the joys of NYC life.
It becomes uncomfortable for me to stay in bed more than about half an hour after waking up.
This matches my own experience.
my utility function tells me to
I recently changed alarm sounds and am in the process of installing a TAP of getting up to stretch after I hear it.
What exactly does “in the process of installing a TAP mean”? As far as I understand the idea of a TAP creating it isn’t a process that takes multiple days.
I guess I should say I’m practicing the TAP. The reason I said “installing” is that I don’t feel like a TAP has been fully installed until I’m extremely confident that it will basically always fire.
I get an awful headache if I stay in bed for more than a few minutes after waking up. Very motivating. Such a blessing!