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The Dreaded Snooze…and a Tip for Avoiding it

by Jenny • January 9th, 2008

I completely overslept today. Snoozed first, then in a sleepy haze turned my alarm off completely, stuffed it under my pillow and went back to sleep. For TWO hours. Thankfully by the time I woke up I still had a chance to make it to work before my first meeting. I’ve got a snooze habit, and ever since I’ve returned from the holidays its been worse than usual. I wanted to share one of my strategies for avoiding “the snooze” – it’s not something I do every day, but it can help for a few days to get you back on track:

Write an ‘I will’ statement the night before on a piece of paper, particularly if you’ve got a busy morning ahead. For example: “I will wake up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. I will not snooze. I will shower at 5:10. I will leave the house by 5:30…and so on.” The benefits: planning your morning in advance, writing it down and being specific all help commit you to your plan. And make you feel that much more guilty if you break it.

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2 comments

Categories: Life, Productivity, Work

Valerie

I like this idea. I often try to make myself wake-up on time by thinking that time over and over in my head when I lay down, but this often keeps me up late stressing over whether I will wake up on time. This makes for a physically awake but not mentally awake or competent me! Writing it down and going over it before hitting the bed may work.

My current technique–I have gone back to a tried and true method from my teens (and yes that was a LONG time ago!). My alarm clock is way on the other side of my bedroom. By the time I have climbed out of bed, walked across the room, hit snooze, walked back to the bed and gotten comfortable, I am too awake to get back to sleep.
Valerie

I like this idea. I often try to make myself wake-up on time by thinking that time over and over in my head when I lay down, but this often keeps me up late stressing over whether I will wake up on time. This makes for a physically awake but not mentally awake or competent me! Writing it down and going over it before hitting the bed may work.

My current technique–I have gone back to a tried and true method from my teens (and yes that was a LONG time ago!). My alarm clock is way on the other side of my bedroom. By the time I have climbed out of bed, walked across the room, hit snooze, walked back to the bed and gotten comfortable, I am too awake to get back to sleep.