"Just five more minutes, mom, please."
You may recognise this phrase from your early schooling years, bargaining for more sleep each and every morning. For some, the temptation to stay in bed, regardless of how well-rested you may be, is irresistible.
However, the effects of doing so can be detrimental to how the rest of your day turns out. By snoozing, you are actively trying to return into the sleep cycle, before forcing yourself out of it again prematurely. This will confuse your body clock, and bring about an effect known as "sleep inertia", a state of reduced alertness, for up to four hours into your morning.
Help yourself avoid this by putting your alarm clock (which often happens to be your phone) out of reach. This will force you to get out of bed to stop the alarm, and hopefully allows you to make a conscious decision to not get back into bed.
Another thing you can consider is setting your alarm at the appropriate time, rather than too early or too late. While setting it earlier than required gives you the buffer to snooze, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
Similarly, you may be heading towards failure by setting your alarm just in time. Instead of going to bed half an hour earlier, you may choose to wake up just in time. The problem with this is that if just one thing doesn't go to plan, you may end up being late for work and have to take on unnecessary anxiety and stress.
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