Do you hit the snooze button before waking up? if not, how do you avoid it?

1. For my alarm I use an iPhone app called Step Out which requires you to take 10 steps to shut off the alarm.
2. At night before I get in bed I place my phone next to my bedroom door (and not on my nightstand where I can reach it from my bed).

Edit: Walk Me Up is a free mobile alarm alternative to Step Out

little hack put your phone on the other corner of your room

I found that once I started prioritizing getting 8 hours of sleep a night, the desire to snooze faded away.

Go to bed on time. That means before 10pm. I read once that every hour of sleep before 12am is equivalent to two hours of sleep after 12am.

No need for snooze or even an alarm clock with a kid :)

I use Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock, it wakes you up when your sleep is in the optimal phase to wake up.

If I don't use it, I'm a heavy snoozer. But Sleep Cycle does alarmingly great job (pun intended) to give a gentle nod when I'm naturally almost awake from my sleep. I have no grumpyness or foggyness in the morning when I use it.

You might be able to relate to this excerpt from the book Switch:

Part of us -- our rational side -- wants to get up at 5:45 am, allowing ourselves plenty of time for a quick jog before we leave for the office. The other part of us -- the emotional side -- wakes up in the darkness of the early morning, snoozing inside a warm cocoon of sheets and blankets, and wants nothing in the world so much as a few more minutes of sleep.

You can stop snoozing if you wish and it starts with you believing that you can make the change.

How is your sleep hygiene? For example, do you go to bed at the same time at night and rise at the same time each morning?

Been working from home for over a month now.

I'm on a shifted schedule, working west coast time from the east cost.

Technically I don't have to wake up till noon my time, but I motivate myself to keep a regular schedule by setting a goal to have something personal done by 10 am.

Right now, I'm studying and practicing for a private pilot license. On bad weather days, or days that I'm taking a break from that, I'm working on courses from Udemy or just doing housework. It keeps me going and gives me a really solid reason to get out of bed and dress every morning!

The snooze is your enemy. When you snooze, you end up going back to sleep and then when it goes off again you're going to wake up more groggy. Here's how I get up at 6am every morning despite having not having any meetings until 4pm most days (I work with people 8 hours behind me on timezones).

1. Commit on getting up. Plan it. Picture it the night before. Your body will often adjust when you do this.

2. Get to bed as early as reasonable. 8 hours is not a luxury for most people. Some people need more. A few need less. Start with 8.

3. When the alarm goes, get up. No snooze button! :-D Sit up, swing your legs down, take a sip of water (that you put there the night before), and stand up.

4. Do this every single day. Even weekends ideally. If you feel really tired on a weekend evening, give yourself one morning off, but try and keep the pattern.

Within 3 weeks you might be doing this without thinking about it: it will be your new habit.

Good luck.

Hey @sandoche

As some members have suggested, you could place the alarm in the other corner of the room.

If possible keep the window opened to let the morning sunlight come in, it's a natural alarm.

When I had an alarm clock I used to put it on the other side of the room.

Now, I don't have an alarm, though my wife does. I only have to get up early (6-7am) a couple days a week to feed the baby, otherwise, I sleep until about 8am and get up naturally.

I've never really hit the snooze though, but I've been known to reset my alarm for when I wanted to actually get up. I hate getting up in 10 minute intervals, especially when I know I can get a solid 30 or 40 more minutes of sleep, I would do that instead.

I don't set an alarm.

I have been known to hit snooze for a full hour. Maybe two. Waking up has always been a big struggle for me.

Here's what helps me:

• Using alarm clock outside of my bedroom. When I get up to turn it off I put my kettle on the stove to boil. So even if I get back in bed, I'll have to get out in ~5-10 minutes to turn off a boiling kettle
• Charging phone outside of bedroom and keeping it on airplane mode overnight
• Having an external reason to get up i.e. workout class
• And one of the most helpful is going to bed at a decent time. If I sleep 8 hours, getting up is easier.

For me, it's all about having a purpose for being up at that time. It's enough to say "my morning would be easier if I gave myself extra time to prepare", because my 5am self doesn't remotely care about making my life easier.

However, if I have something I need or want to do (like an early morning appointment, phone call, workout, flight to catch, etc.), then I wake up with a purpose and I get moving -- even when I don't especially feel like it.

I noticed two things on my side:

• If I have to get up because I have meetings or I need to go somewhere, snoozing doesn't have a too bad impact on me. I snooze 1 - max. 3 times á 5 minutes and it actually helps to get somehow awake in the bed (I mean, 15 minutes laying in the bed and getting awake doesn't kill anyone) and prevents me to accidentally fall asleep again.
• If I don't have to get up strictly snoozing is really dangerous for me because there is no "external pressure" that forces me to get up after max. third time because I would be too late. And I'm more the night person than the morning person. I mean, there are many tricks such as put your alarm on the other side of the room, but in my case, I just need to get up instantly because I know if I snooze in this case I will definitely turn it off after the third time and just keep sleeping.

I know this situation. I'm now avoiding it by sleeping long enough and immediately reading the news. The latter is easy as I use my phone to wake me up. So it's the habit of sleeping enough, waking up, pressing snooze, reading the news for about 5 minutes and then I'm prepared to get out of bed.

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