My 30-day trial broke in the last 10 days!

[Dedekind]

I only had about 8 days left of my trial of getting up at 6 am each morning, when I failed and got up at 10 am That "failure day" is today. Is this normal? What should I do? Should I accept this as as setback and move on, or give up for some reasons? What are your experiences with failing such late in the trial period? Does that mean there is something more fundamentally wrong underneath the surface?

[Parthon]

To start with, a whole bunch of questions:
Well, how did you fail? Can you never get up at 6am ever again? Are the previous 21 days failures too because you missed just one day? Is the entire 30 day trial a complete waste of time because you missed one day? What's the purpose of the 30 day trial to begin with? Is it to be perfect? Is it to try and fail? Is it to do your best? Is it so you can cheer and revel in the delight? Is it so you can hold your superiority over other people? Why?

For me, a 30 day trial is to do my best to install a new habit for two reasons: to experience a new way of living from the inside and to create a new long term habit that could be beneficial.

So, in your 30 day trial, what have you learnt so far? What have you gained and what have you lost?

In my eyes, you haven't failed at all. You woke up 21 times at 6am, and you got up today at 10am. I also see you getting up another 8 days at 6am, then coming on here and telling us all about it.

[Gaz]

Theres nothing that says you have to do trials in time periods of 30 days. You managed 21 days of getting up at 6, congratulate yourself for that.

Now, start another trial but make it a 22 day trial, after all, you know you did 21 days, so what's another day on top of that. Once you hit 22 days, see how much longer you can keep it up.

[Matt Willard]

Don't give up, just ask yourself if there was anything you did that could've caused the error, and keep it in mind when you try again.