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marsden_online) wrote2014-01-11 08:46 am
marsden_online) wrote2014-01-11 08:46 am
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CttC 3a Getting out of bed
Framed in terms of a bad storyline and a troublesome monkey the trouble I have been having getting out of bed (in the morning or post nap) results from
* a "gimmie" for the Instant Gratification monkey in terms of the energy required to get out of a nice cosy bed (none)
* the story I have been telling is that "As my work hours are limited and flexible and usually taken over the afternoon I have no real need to get out of bed."
regardless of the facts that
* I *know* I get a lot more out of the day when I get out of bed promptly and make use of the extra 2-3 hours
* this completely discounts my want-to-dos and even a lot of my have-to-dos (like household chores and game prep) compared to work and obligations to other people (if I need to be somewhere for an early appointment, or eg earlier this week out at the airport to deliver a passport to someone between flights, then getting out of bed is no problem).
My new storyline (for the moment) is "I get out of bed in the morning because I refuse to let the procrastination monkey beat me, unless I choose to allow a sleep in (eg after an o-ghod-o'clock Hall alarm)"
This is explicitly written on my bedroom whiteboard as "Don't let the Monkey keep you in bed".
I have also found that just putting the big tasks which I have already been procrastinating on for months on the bedroom whiteboard provides no real incentive. And I don't want to make (fall into a trap of making) getting out of bed contingent on things which involve obligations to others. So I need to think more about what I want to get out of each day and write that up instead of a simple list of tasks.
* a "gimmie" for the Instant Gratification monkey in terms of the energy required to get out of a nice cosy bed (none)
* the story I have been telling is that "As my work hours are limited and flexible and usually taken over the afternoon I have no real need to get out of bed."
regardless of the facts that
* I *know* I get a lot more out of the day when I get out of bed promptly and make use of the extra 2-3 hours
* this completely discounts my want-to-dos and even a lot of my have-to-dos (like household chores and game prep) compared to work and obligations to other people (if I need to be somewhere for an early appointment, or eg earlier this week out at the airport to deliver a passport to someone between flights, then getting out of bed is no problem).
My new storyline (for the moment) is "I get out of bed in the morning because I refuse to let the procrastination monkey beat me, unless I choose to allow a sleep in (eg after an o-ghod-o'clock Hall alarm)"
This is explicitly written on my bedroom whiteboard as "Don't let the Monkey keep you in bed".
I have also found that just putting the big tasks which I have already been procrastinating on for months on the bedroom whiteboard provides no real incentive. And I don't want to make (fall into a trap of making) getting out of bed contingent on things which involve obligations to others. So I need to think more about what I want to get out of each day and write that up instead of a simple list of tasks.