Waking Up Early Without an Alarm
photo by Adrian Hart
If you feel like the day flies by and you don’t ever have time to do what you planned to do, then waking up a few hours early might be a good goal to start with.
Though there is still a debate whether sleeping less is good for you or not, it is well-established that waking up at the same time, consistently, helps keep your body working at peak performance.
Since I am pushing to release HabitShaper v2, and working on my physics research, I find that a few extra hours each day can make a huge difference.
To get these extra hours in, on May 25th I made the following goal in HabitShaper:
“I will be waking up at 6:30 AM every day, by next month.
I will start today, with 10:00 AM.”
I am happy to report that I am waking up now around 6:40am, without an alarm!
The most important point about all of this is that I managed to get to an early wake-up time using HabitShaper, even though I was far from perfect in following the schedule. In fact, I only met my targets 60% of the time!
Here is the histogram so far. It shows that I slept beyond my target time several times. And yet, I am waking up easily at 6:30 now, and it hasn’t been a month yet.
Success despite imperfections.
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