I don't know about anyone else, but when I oversleep or just don't want to get out of bed, I end up kicking myself later because I feel like I wasted a good chunk of a day. That's the most frustrating part... you're laying there in bed, sleeping and then you notice the time and you get a sinking feeling in your heart thinking of all the things you were supposed to do and all the things you have to do. This usually ruins my day and I end up in a bad mood.
Well, I've been doing something that I think is really helping me get out of bed and prevents (or at least tries to) you from falling back asleep. When my first alarm goes off and I'm awake but want to go back to sleep so badly because I don't want to face the day or I'm too tired, I take the time to count the reasons why I should be awake right at that moment.
I don't know if anyone's thought of this yet (probably has) but this is really good at keeping you awake and making you get up and running. For me, it excites me and then I can't fall back asleep. Sometimes, in the morning, when you're all tired, you don't give yourself time to think about the day ahead of you and you just ignore everything and go back to bed because sleep is the most important thing to you at that moment (at least for me it's like that).
When we were little, we always had something to be excited about, going to the park, playing with your new toy, going shopping for toys, or playing with your friends outside. As you get older, you lose that excitement for life, so it's important to tell yourself reasons to be happy or reasons why it's worth being awake, or alive.
This method of telling myself reasons to be awake has worked for me for a couple of days now and I plan on doing it every morning. It lets me start off my day in a positive way.
You can even tell yourself reasons why you're happy to be alive instead of just reasons to wake up or both can be incorporated into one, it's really your choice. Whatever makes you smile and get out of bed!
*For example, my reasons for getting out of bed today included:
- I could be writing a blog post (which I did!)
- I could be getting ready and showering
- I could be reading my new book
- I could be taking my quiz for school
- I could be doing the rest of my homework
- I could be talking to my parents and spending some time with them
- I could be organizing my room
- I could be cataloging my books
So these are personal to me and everyone will have different reasons to get out of bed, obviously, but since I like being organized and like organizing, these alone can get me of of bed.
Like I said earlier, reasons can include reasons to be alive just to put yourself in that happier mood, which I think I'm also going to start doing as well.
I hope this helps those that are kicking themselves when they oversleep and are put in a bad mood because of it because it's definitely helped me! (:
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