On those longer evenings, however, even the most motivating song and the most pleasant light didn’t manage to get me out of the land of dreams. I bought myself a light radio alarm clock, which should gently get me out of sleep in the morning. My excessive compulsion to press the snooze button I have announced the fight. Of course, thanks to flexible working hours, I have the advantage of being able to stay in bed one hour longer in the morning if the evening before was a little long. 7.5 hours per night are ideal – and I try to keep to them. But I have noticed that my sleep behaviour – and the results of it – increase my motivation and thus also my productivity.Ī fixed sleep rhythm is a prerequisite for me to recover properly. Of course, productivity at the workplace is not only related to fatigue. If you had simply set the alarm clock to the moment when you really have time to get up, you wouldn’t have interrupted your sleep and would definitely be fitter. After a short time on the computer, the concentration drops to the felt zero point and you forget what you were about to do because of all the tiredness.Īnd you already regret pressing the Snooze button in the morning. When you finally manage to get up, take a shower and get to work, you don’t feel well-rested or able to become truly productive.

Whoever manages to press the button in a felt deep sleep and continue dreaming runs the risk of ignoring all the penetrating noises. If we then press the Snooze button, we don’t extend this phase, but fall into a next one, from which we are torn out again a few minutes later. That these few moments of additional sleep don’t really help us and on the contrary only make us more tired, can be explained as follows: The alarm clock gets us (or tears us) out of our sleep phase. The alarm clock rings and all you want to do is sleep a little further.

The snooze