Waking Up On Time

My name is Alana and I am an ex Night Owl.

I used to go to bed as late as possible, furtively looking at my alarm clock and convincing myself just one more episode won’t hurt, after all, I’ve had such a hard day and I deserve this.

And then in the morning I would wake up in a panic because I missed my 3 alarms and would rush around to get dressed and get my things in order (and breakfast? Oh that old thing? Yeah, I’ll just quickly pick something up on the way!)

I knew that having a relaxed morning was something that technical possible, but I just didn’t think that it was possible for me, I mean, it wasn’t really happening so…

Here’s where I went wrong:

I thought it was supposed to be easy to wake up in the morning.

I thought I was supposed to feel amazing.

I thought feeling bad meant I had to stay in bed.

My alarm would ring, and I would feel my body feeling sluggish, and I decided that meant I should stay in bed.

(Nevermind that I wasn’t actually getting more rest by lying stressed out and half-awake in bed.)

I never made a clear intentional decision about what time I would wake up despite the discomfort.

In my mind, it was just a sort of I’ll wait until my alarm rings AND I feel good enough.

And what would happen is that basically the discomfort of being really late and getting in trouble outweighed the discomfort of getting out of bed.

And THAT was the energy I was carrying around with me from the moment I woke up.

But what if, waking up was going to feel awful and that was ok?

What if you didn’t have to feel amazing when you got up?

The bad news is, at the beginning no matter what you do, it will always feel terrible getting out of bed:

1. Either because you waited until the last minute and the fear of being too late finally was unbearable

2. Or because your brain was trying to convince that you are too feel sleepy/groggy/tired to get up.

But the good news, is you get to choose which flavour of terribleness you want: 

1. Reacting unintentionally

2. Acting intentionally

The time you wake up is completely in your control.

And you’ve got this, beautiful :)

If you’re ready to transform your relationship with time and with yourself, email me at alana@alanaschramm.com for a free consult.