February Challenge

When I lived in Gresham, OR doing JVC-NW, I had a roommate that challenged himself to wake up without an alarm clock. He did that the whole year. On very few occasions was he ever late, he just had to make sure that he told himself what time to get up before sleeping and his body did the rest.

While I am not sure that I am ready to step up to that challenge since I get up so early (so basically that entire first paragraph was a nice anecdote, vaguely related), I have decided to take a new challenge for the month of February. That is... I must get up on the first alarm. No snoozing (and no treats). 

tangent> I did have this bad habit in college where I would only take a 15 minute nap.. I'd set the alarm, but then I wouldn't want to wake up so an hour later and 6 snoozes later (8 minutes/snooze) I would finally get up... my roommate hated it. <end of tangent

This morning went pretty well with the no snoozing. The alarm did go off a second time, but I was awake, just still in bed (ok, so it wasn't perfect). But seems to have a good effect to getting the day started early!