By “decision”, I don’t mean the decision to get up in the morning, I mean the sort that’s made on a conscious level and requires at least a few seconds’ serious thought.
Consider yourself lucky if that doesn’t describe getting up in the morning for you.
Anyway, not that this counts at all (availability bias), but I made a rational decision a couple of days ago to get some sleep instead of working later into the night on homework. I did exactly that.
In fact, I just made a rational decision—just now—to quit reading the article I was reading, work on homework for a few minutes and then go to bed. I haven’t gotten to bed yet. Otherwise, that’s going well.
Consider yourself lucky if that doesn’t describe getting up in the morning for you.
Can you rig your mornings so that staying in bed just doesn’t work? I use two alarm clocks, one set for two minutes after the other; the one that goes off two minutes later is out of arm’s reach, so I have to either get out of bed, or sleep through it.
Not really worth it, but thanks. :) My current strategy is just to wait a few minutes, which essentially always does the trick unless I’m totally exhausted and need more sleep. I appreciate the thought, though.
I should point out that while the rational choice to go to bed a couple days ago worked out well, the last one failed because I got drawn into housework I could never have predicted I’d have to help with (I thought it was already done).
Consider yourself lucky if that doesn’t describe getting up in the morning for you.
Anyway, not that this counts at all (availability bias), but I made a rational decision a couple of days ago to get some sleep instead of working later into the night on homework. I did exactly that.
In fact, I just made a rational decision—just now—to quit reading the article I was reading, work on homework for a few minutes and then go to bed. I haven’t gotten to bed yet. Otherwise, that’s going well.
Can you rig your mornings so that staying in bed just doesn’t work? I use two alarm clocks, one set for two minutes after the other; the one that goes off two minutes later is out of arm’s reach, so I have to either get out of bed, or sleep through it.
Not really worth it, but thanks. :) My current strategy is just to wait a few minutes, which essentially always does the trick unless I’m totally exhausted and need more sleep. I appreciate the thought, though.
I should point out that while the rational choice to go to bed a couple days ago worked out well, the last one failed because I got drawn into housework I could never have predicted I’d have to help with (I thought it was already done).