# beeminding wake up time? **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 14, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-wake-up-time/1514 "2014-07-14T17:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kkyang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/kkyang/32/108_2.png) [@kkyang](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/kkyang)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-wake-up-time/1514/1 "2014-07-14T17:43:18Z")
How do you set up your goal for wake up times? Currently I have a do less goal set to 8. The 8 represents 8 AM. So I need to wake up before 8 AM everyday. However if I wake up after 8 AM on any day, I derail. Is this too unforgiving? Is there a better way to set up this goal? Thanks! -Kenny – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Alexander](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/jeff_alexander/32/680_2.png) [@Jeff\_Alexander](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Jeff_Alexander)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-wake-up-time/1514/2 "2014-07-14T17:51:50Z")
Set a do less by week if it’s okay to wake up before 8 AM _on average_. or Set a do more goal for “wake up by 8am”, and set it to 6/wk or 4/wk or however strict you want to be with yourself regarding waking by 8am. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Kenny Yang [yangkennyk@gmail.com](mailto:yangkennyk@gmail.com) wrote: > How do you set up your goal for wake up times? > > Currently I have a do less goal set to 8. The 8 represents 8 AM. So I need > to wake up before 8 AM everyday. > > However if I wake up after 8 AM on any day, I derail. Is this too > unforgiving? Is there a better way to set up this goal? > > Thanks! > > -Kenny > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more. (Alan J. Perlis) – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-wake-up-time/1514/3 "2014-07-14T18:40:22Z")
I set up something like this recently for the opposite end - going to bed times. What I did was set up two goals: A do less goal with the value being time gone to bed (in hours since the previous midnight: So e.g. 11:30 would be 23.5, 1 would be 25, etc), with the goal being to on average go to bed before 11. I then set up a parallel do more goal which counted the number of nights I actually made it to bed before 10:30, requiring at least 3 a week to start with (with the intent of raising that later). I have a python script that makes it easier to do that so I only have to record the “time I went to bed” one. I, err, then deleted both of them, and decided not to track that and instead use tagtime to track total hours slept, so I can’t report how well this worked. But I liked the idea. On 14 July 2014 19:43, Kenny Yang [yangkennyk@gmail.com](mailto:yangkennyk@gmail.com) wrote: > How do you set up your goal for wake up times? > > Currently I have a do less goal set to 8. The 8 represents 8 AM. So I need > to wake up before 8 AM everyday. > > However if I wake up after 8 AM on any day, I derail. Is this too > unforgiving? Is there a better way to set up this goal? > > Thanks! > > -Kenny > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![amesha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@amesha1](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/amesha1)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-wake-up-time/1514/4 "2014-07-14T20:11:59Z")
I just beemind whether I get up with my alarm clock right away or not. I have it set to 6.5 / week, so once every two weeks I can skip getting up (this is after I’ve already built the habit). I also set my alarm one minute early on many days (with the goal of very gradually moving it earlier and eventually getting to between 5 and 6). When I was building the habit of getting up right away, I practiced getting into bed for a few minutes and getting up when the alarm goes off (and beeminded the practicing, here’s the article explaining that: [http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/) ). On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Kenny Yang [yangkennyk@gmail.com](mailto:yangkennyk@gmail.com) wrote: > How do you set up your goal for wake up times? > > Currently I have a do less goal set to 8. The 8 represents 8 AM. So I need > to wake up before 8 AM everyday. > > However if I wake up after 8 AM on any day, I derail. Is this too > unforgiving? Is there a better way to set up this goal? > > Thanks! > > -Kenny > > – > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > “Akratics Anonymous” group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Akratics Anonymous” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:akratics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout).