The Oversleeping Habit

I suppose I should provide a resolution to the posts I made back in October about my rather dreadful habit of snoozing the alarm clock, oversleeping, and being late to things. The good news is that I was able to maintain my habit change of not snoozing the alarm clock to the point that I do successfully wake up with it now. What I learned is that the snooze button can be used properly without abuse, and has a very solid and meaningful purpose.

There were many, many mornings where I was nothing short of a zombie and standing upright was an achievement. I had to keep my habit breaking going, so I just dealt with it. However, once I got past that, and I hit my vacation, I learned something useful to do with that snooze button. When the alarm went off this morning, I hit the snooze button for the first time in three months. Once I did this, I laid back down in bed, but kept my eyes open, willing myself to wake up. I admit that I did actually snooze a bit, but when the alarm went off the second time, I was able to simply get up and walk about much better than the first time around. I believe this says that if I feel rather zombified the first time around, a moment taken to wake the body up is time well spent, especially with my newly formed habit of jumping out of bed with the alarm.

So my mission was a success, and I do believe I am better for it.