Update on Goals: New Strategy

I'm about to wrap up for the day but I thought I'd update you on a new strategy I'm trying out this week. One of my goals for this year was to start getting more sleep and start getting into a better night time routine. Well, this week I am finally starting on this goal!

There are two obstacles in my way:

• Once I'm in bed, I tend to think of random things. This isn't much of a problem but I feel the need to google these things immediately. So, I reach for my blackberry and fire it up!
• When my alarm goes off in the morning, I am very good at giving myself excuses to press snooze and I'm even better at convincing myself that I won't need that much time to get ready.

I think that both of these things can be resolved with one simple solution which I have tried for the last couple of days. I am leaving my blackberry in the hall outside of my bedroom on silent mode. So:

• I can't Google in bed.
• The alarm coming from my blackberry is a really loud and annoying ring tone in the morning. This forces me to get out of bed and to leave the room to turn it off.

So far this strategy is going really well! I manage to get out of bed when my alarm goes off. The hard part is resisting the temptation to get back into bed and to start getting ready right away. This morning I got distracted by some pictures on facebook. I'm going to start turning off my computer at night!

But, one small step for man...

LJ