Getting Up Early Day 1
For some background I’ve hated the fact that I can’t get out of bed in the morning. I have this long self talk about getting up and how it isn’t hard and everything will move so why not get out of bed? It turns out this was part of my ‘morning routine’ uhg. Picking on myself was A PART OF MY MORNING GETTTING OUT OF BED ROUTINE!!! Talk about getting angry at myself. The method he gives for retraining yourself to get out of bed is to practice getting out of bed when your willpower is much higher (like in the evening after dinner or something when you’re not particularly tired) That’s right. Practice getting out of bed.
He also said ‘do this’
- Turn off the alarm immediately.
- Extend all limbs outward from your body for a two second stretch.
- Stand up next to the bed.
- Smile a big smile.
- Go do the next thing.
So I was bad and didn’t practice last night. I was going to, but I was so tired after hanging out with KTFoodie at Powell’s Bookstore that I knew if I practiced I’d just go to sleep and not actually do myself any good.
This morning at 6am the alarm went off.
I turned it off immediately
I stretched…well…I tried to, I was tangled up in my comforter *chagrined smile*
Untangled myself and stretched.
Stood up
Smiled really big
Switched on the light
Stood confused at the fact that I now have too much time and am not entirely sure what should be done with it.
Reset alarm for 6:30
Repeat.
It worked! That was just plain cool. Granted today was the first day, but I’ll give this method a 30 day trial and see where it leads me.