It’s tempting to. After all, what’s another five, ten, fifteen minutes of sleep? And you’re already so comfortable….
Of course if you’re me, one hit of the snooze button turns into five, and all of a sudden I’m an hour behind schedule. Waking up goes from being a quick win to the first failure of the day.
It’s tempting to do this with our work too. To look at a task and say “yes, but later.” To delay a project because now just isn’t quite urgent enough. But we’re so much better off if we take action, even a small step, now instead of later. To build some momentum, as often the first step is the most meaningful. It means we get to start off with a small win instead of a small failure.
P.S. The trick I’ve found to skipping the snooze button is to make the snooze period a meaningless amount of time, say one or two minutes. This makes it more annoying to snooze than just get out of bed. Oh, and make sure your alarm clock or phone is out of arms reach.