Tips to stop hitting the snooze button?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should never use an alarm clock. It is a horrible way to start the day. Your body has a very well developed internal clock, you just need to tell yourself what time you want to wake up, and it happens naturally.

Yeah, right.

If left to my own devices, my natural sleep pattern is 4am-10am. I'm 51 and every time I let my body adjust to its own cycle, it drifts back to this exact pattern. Since my life does not adjust to me sleeping on that schedule, I have to use an alarm clock.

Must be nice to have natural biorhythms that syncs with the standard schedule, but many of us don't so there's no need to be so smug about being lucky to have that natural schedule.

[Anonymous]

Get a small cage, like a pet cage for a small bird. Put your clock there, lock the cage, put the cage on the nightstand but the key across the room. You'll need to get up, go across the room, get the key, come back unlock the cage to turn off the alarm. By then your body should be adjusting to being awake to stay out of bed.

[Anonymous]

Do you drink alcohol at night? If so, stop. I am 1000 times better about not snoozing when I don't have wine the night before.

[Anonymous]

Get a dog that needs to be walked at 6 am, or a cat that demands to be fed at 6 am.

[Anonymous]

Use Alarm clock app on phone that you can turn off snooze capability ( won't give you the option to press it). Also these have a choice of a gentle sound ( chimes, sing, birds chirping, egg) vs the loud startling buzzing . After you've been late a few mornings, that will give you motivation or nothing will work.

[Anonymous]

I'm a night owl and SUCK at getting up in the morning. Like a pp, I can now sleep through minutes of my alarm! I moved the clock back by 10-15 minutes but have now factored that into my time so that isn't even a trick anymore.

I don't have a solution. Following this thread to find one. The only thing that will keep me awake is a phone call. If I have to talk/interact with someone, I'm up. Getting up to turn off the alarm will not prevent me from going back to sleep. My natural wake-up time is 9-10AM but I need to be up by 6:30 (I wake up at close to 7AM and it's a huge rush/stress to be ready).

[Anonymous]

I am one of those people that really wants that cushion of snooze time. I have a 9-minute snooze and I like to push it twice. So my alarm is usually set for 6:42 so I can get up at 7:00, and that makes me happy. I rarely go for 3 snoozes unless I know that wakeup time is arbitrary and not really "necessary."

I've been doing this since I was a teen. I try not to vary my bedtime or wake time too much in either direction, even on weekends. So I often go home earlier from the bar than my friends, because I like to keep my rhythms sort of intact.

I agree that your current wakeup time might be a problem given your individual sleep cycle. And you may not be getting enough sleep for you. (I get 7 hours and I'm perfectly happy.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only thing that works for me is to check my email after the alarm goes off. Even though it's all crap, I'm usually sufficiently motivated (maybe it won't be crap!). By the time I'm verified that it's all crap and deleted it all, I'm awake enough that I can drag myself out of bed. Or I see all the work emails and realize that life will be even worse if I don't get myself in to the office.

This is what I do. I use my phone as my alarm. When it goes off, I pick it up and look at the weather, go through some emails. This gives me a few minutes in my cozy bed to wake up. If I just hit the snooze I never want to get out of there.

[Anonymous]

Just freaking do it. It isn't rocket science. I could probably eat a whole pizza in one sitting sometimes, but I don't. Why? Because you just don't do that. So just stop hitting snooze. Get up. For fuck's sake. It isn't complicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just freaking do it. It isn't rocket science. I could probably eat a whole pizza in one sitting sometimes, but I don't. Why? Because you just don't do that. So just stop hitting snooze. Get up. For fuck's sake. It isn't complicated.

For some of us it is. You clearly don't understand, because you have not had the experience. You also clearly are one of those nimrods who thinks their own experience defines how it should be for everyone else. Loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should never use an alarm clock. It is a horrible way to start the day. Your body has a very well developed internal clock, you just need to tell yourself what time you want to wake up, and it happens naturally.

What? You just magically wake up at 6:15 or whatever by telling yourself that the night before? Does not seem like this works or alarm clocks wouldn't exist.

It does work. I have never been late for an appointment or meeting or flight in my life. As for alarm clocks, this world is full of things that we don't need. We just don't realize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just freaking do it. It isn't rocket science. I could probably eat a whole pizza in one sitting sometimes, but I don't. Why? Because you just don't do that. So just stop hitting snooze. Get up. For fuck's sake. It isn't complicated.

For some of us it is. You clearly don't understand, because you have not had the experience. You also clearly are one of those nimrods who thinks their own experience defines how it should be for everyone else. Loser.

I'm not the loser who can't get out of bed like a goddamn adult. Grow up and stop acting like a college kid.

[Anonymous]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I struggle with this too. I'm considering setting up a coffee machine in my bedroom

This!

[Anonymous]

My college roommate had an amazing alarm clock. It could be thrown. So when it went off in the morning she would throw it across the room. Then when it went off again 5 minutes later, she had to get out of bed to get it. Genius. I have looked for them online and never found them. It seems like something that would be sold in the airplane catalog.