How many times do you snooze your alarms? If you have multiple alarms, how many extra go off before you get up?
Zero? Proud of you, skip this one.
For the rest of us mortals, the answer is usually at least two.
You know what might help with getting more sleep so you feel rested enough to wake up?
Not being interrupted multiple times by alarms. If you need an extra hour, just set an alarm for in an hour and go back to sleep. Then you can properly enjoy it.
If you're setting it anyway it's also adjustable, so if you just want to stare at the ceiling for five minutes you can do that too.
Setting a specific alarm is unfortunately more effort than the snooze button, but I've found that my sleep deprived brain is perfectly happy to unlock the phone and toggle a few switches for the promise of an uninterrupted hour.
If you delay reminders or timers for other things, this applies to them too. Don't set it to come back earlier than when you'll actually handle it, or it's just pointless interruption.
- Rew
Nightly Notes
I woke up without an alarm today.
Twice.
It was fantastic.
The first time woke up I thought about doing things, then decided I needed more sleep. The sleep deprivation haze has been setting in recently. Apparently more meant three more hours.
I don't regret a thing, but I can't get away with this most days.
Anyway.
Writing.
I need to find a way to split in an editing pass to my schedule. Separate session from the bulk of the writing. It's more helpful than I expected.
Yeah, that's pretty obvious isn't it. Only someone who decided their first big writing project would be unplanned daily posts in an already busy schedule wouldn't have jumped to this conclusion.
I could just do an edit on the next post while drafting the one after, but I haven't found the energy to work on multiple different posts consistently in a single session. The next best solution is to add more.
Sometimes you have to learn things the slow, silly way. That's okay.
- Rew