On work days, after your alarm goes off, how long do you remain in bed before you actually get up?
What do you find yourself doing between that first alert and actually getting up?
Do you have wake up rituals?
How long do you let it continue?
On work days, after your alarm goes off, how long do you remain in bed before you actually get up?
What do you find yourself doing between that first alert and actually getting up?
Do you have wake up rituals?
How long do you let it continue?
I have two alarms. The first one is sort of a soft-wake up. Sometimes I’ll wake then and fuss around on my phone for a while, sometimes I’ll just shut it off and go back to sleep, but either way I can’t ignore it or it will start reading news headlines.
Second alarm is a half hour later, that one means it’s time to wake up, and I have 15 minutes to get out of bed if I want to keep my routine on pace, or I need to immediately get in the shower if I didn’t shower the night before.
I technically also then have a third alarm that assumes I’m dressed and had breakfast and everything, and that just means it’s time to pack my shit and get out the door. It mostly just keeps me from stressing about watching the clock.
In keeping with my routine I pretty much always arrive to work in a five minute window, and most of that variation is just how much time I spent petting the cat before I finally went out the door.
I kind of like this initial alarm idea. Sleep if you want. Play if you want. But the second alarm is business time!