{"id":573,"date":"2017-02-12T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.hepper.net\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2017-02-12T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T00:13:18","slug":"30-day-experiment-1-kill-the-snooze-button-with-30-within-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.hepper.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/30-day-experiment-1-kill-the-snooze-button-with-30-within-30\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Day Experiment #1: kill the snooze button with 30 within 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

While slacking off<\/del> doing research on the internet recently, I stumbled upon Raptitude.com<\/a>, where David Cain writes about getting better at being human. One thing that intrigued me were his self-improvement experiments<\/a>. He did a total of 22 experiments, with objectives like going vegan for 30 days or following a specific workout regime for 6 weeks. I really liked that idea and decided to that myself someday. That day is today.
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Today I attended FemtoConf<\/a>, a tiny conference for bootstrappers in Darmstadt. It was set to start at 9:30 am, so if I would get up at 7 am I would have plenty of time to go for a quick run before breakfast. But when my alarm rang, my morning instincts kicked in and I immediately hit the snooze button. I repeated that procedure until running wasn’t going to happen. Not a great start into the day.<\/p>\n

In the end, I did go for a run before dinner and while out running, I had a brilliant idea for my first experiment: I will evaluate a tactic to kill the snooze button.<\/p>\n

So here is what I’m going to do for the next 30 days, as it is already past midnight as I’m writing this, technically starting today:<\/p>\n

Within 30 seconds after the alarm rings, I will get up and start doing 30 jumping jacks.<\/p>\n

In practice, I will set a second alarm one minute after the first and consider the day a success if I manage to complete 30 jumping jacks before it rings.<\/p>\n

Check back in 30 days to read how it went!<\/p>\n

Header image by eflon<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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