Waking up early means going to bed early. That remains the hardest to do.
How I became a morning person
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Re: How I became a morning person
#12I've been thinking about buying a light therapy box[0] and adding an esp8266 or similar to connect it to my home network. I could position it above my bed and have my phone's alarm trip it on. It would be interesting to see if it gave me a motivation boost throughout the day in addition to helping me wake up.
[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-VT20WW1-HappyLight-Intensity-I...
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#13I'm a morning person now after years of living on the west coast working for an east coast company.
The sad part is I don't get any of the "free hours" benefit. If I'm up at 5am, everyone else is too (8am for them). I'd have to get up at 2am to get any extra time and that's just not gonna happen.
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#14I suppose that will come naturally anyway as age progresses, when one will need less sleep ?
As far as I know, the current consensus is that sleep reduces with age because the ability to maintain sleep is impaired, not because the need for sleep is actually reduced.
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#15To start waking up earlier, I set my alarm clock five minutes earlier every week. I gave myself permission to hit the snooze, but the alarm was going to wake me up regardless. When I'd freed up about 40 mins or so, I switched my gym routine to go in the morning rather than at night. Totally worth it. I hope to maybe be able to get some work or chores done in the morning eventually.
For me the trick seems to be quite the opposite: set the alarm clock so much earlier that it actually matters.
I have started waking up at 04 in the morning since May and it works really well.
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#16There are still only the same number of hours in the day, though. You're making pretty fundamental alterations to your habits in order to 'reclaim' time that isn't really lost.
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#17I've been thinking about buying a light therapy box[0] and adding an esp8266 or similar to connect it to my home network. I could position it above my bed and have my phone's alarm trip it on. It would be interesting to see if it gave me a motivation boost throughout the day in addition to helping me wake up. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-VT20WW1-HappyLight-Intensity-I...
There's already a "thing" similar to this idea, look up Dawn Simulator.
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#18I tried that but can't fight my need to make the day last longer. I'm also quite productive late night. It makes me eat more in the evening and skip breakfast the next day (at the opposite of most nutritionists recommendations).
The main issue with being a late night worker is that for most of us it means starring at a screen and this affects sleep in a bad way.
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#19Give up coffee, work out regularly, go to bed at the same time every night, get tested for sleep apnea.
Changed my life.
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#20I've been thinking about buying a light therapy box[0] and adding an esp8266 or similar to connect it to my home network. I could position it above my bed and have my phone's alarm trip it on. It would be interesting to see if it gave me a motivation boost throughout the day in addition to helping me wake up. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-VT20WW1-HappyLight-Intensity-I...
I used to have that. It was waking me up for the first couple of weeks, and then I got used to it, and slept right through.