Forgot to set my alarm last night to wake up this morning, but somehow still arrived at work 13 minutes early!
You know, once I'm up, it's pretty straight forward from there, but the actual getting up is hard. I've been told that one of the factors could be that I have low blood pressure. They say it can be harder for people with low blood pressure to get up in the morning. I'm not sure that's it though, because other people in my family have timeliness issues and I don't think they all have low blood pressure.
Just in case though, if anybody understands why it's supposed to be more difficult, go ahead and let me know. Nix that--just tell me what can be done about it. I'm now getting more and more frequent exercise than I was just a bit ago. That will either help or make me tired from exhaustion. Ha! How to win the Getting Up in the Morning Game? I feel like I'm playing chess against the computer; it's always 10 steps ahead of me...
I read that it's best to just get up the moment the alarm goes off rather than lying in bed groggily. This article argued that thinking at all makes getting up difficult. I'll try that tomorrow. Just get up when it goes off. (I also noticed it helps if I do things like wash the dishes and pick up a little the night before. That way, I'm not distracted the next day when I'm getting ready.)
How's your progress? Did you find a morning routine that works for you? We should add up our collective minutes and find a sponsor or something. I'm up to what, 32 minutes early? Cool, now if only time were money...
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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Try keep the alarm a bit further away so you actually have to get up to go switch it off... but a place where its still loud enough to annoy you!
Point noted. Truly, I'd like to find the place where getting up contains an amount of joy in it. Generally, the alarm clock sets us up to wake up annoyed, or 'alarmed.'
I know what it would take to wake up in a more joyful way, but I don't know how to do that from here. When I was in high school, I used to wake up to the classical station. That felt like a nice way to wake up. I'm not saying it helped me get up in high school, but I think it would help now. Alas, there is no such thing as a classical station here. But I could get a clock radio and try some other station...
Thanks, Rane!
Yes. Just getting up when the alarm goes off works. Only 27 more days to go.
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