Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me
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Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me
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#2Compared to articles on sites that Lifehacker that boast claims like "10 Ways to Perfect Your Sleep Cycle!"; I really love the honesty of articles written like this with the perspective of "it worked for me; I'd recommend it, but your mileage may vary".
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#3You only need one tip: get a kid. Won't help with productivity though.
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#4Interesting to see the "consecutive" days motivational tool come up again. I've been struggling with this recently and will have to give that a shot.
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#5Going to sleep when you're tired and waking up at the same time everyday sounds great but how does the occasional late night affect this?
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#6Going to sleep when you're tired and waking up at the same time everyday sounds great but how does the occasional late night affect this?
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#7Going to sleep when you're tired and waking up at the same time everyday sounds great but how does the occasional late night affect this?
Having done this, I still wake up at the same time, but may take naps (5-40 mins) during the day. It's not that I'm trying to avoid sleeping in-I just can't, having gotten so used to the habit of waking up at 6 AM every single day.
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#8It took me a month of living with withdrawal symptoms and headaches to get over the addiction.
Let me just point out that this is totally not normal. I drink 10-15 (20-oz) cups of coffee a week, in addition to caffeinated sodas, and when I'd go off caffeine for a few weeks (as I used to do regularly), I'd have 2-3 days of feeling depressed from normal, and a very mild but persistent headache over the first 1-2 days of it. If someone has caffeine withdrawal symptoms for a month, I'd think something else is wrong.
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#9It took me a month of living with withdrawal symptoms and headaches to get over the addiction. Let me just point out that this is totally not normal. I drink 10-15 (20-oz) cups of coffee a week, in addition to caffeinated sodas, and when I'd go off caffeine for a few weeks (as I used to do regularly), I'd have 2-3 days of feeling depressed from normal, and a very mild but persistent headache over the first 1-2 days o…
I'm not anywhere near an expert, but I wanted to point out that there is a difference (I assume substantial) between someone who drinks 10-15 cups of coffee a week for several years and then goes off permanently and someone who drinks the same amount but regularly stops drinking for a few weeks. The situation isn't exactly the same, but it makes me think of a person who's never run a mile before who can't do it any faster than 10 minutes and a person who runs a mile once every couple weeks and says "that's totally not normal; you should totally be able to run a mile in under 7 minutes" (whether you 'should' be able to as a level of physical fitness or not, it's unreasonable to expect of a person on their first attempt).
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#10There is actually a straightforward tip that is fairly reliable. Take melatonin 30 minutes before you need to go to sleep in order to wake up on time. This stops you from staying up too late because it softly commits you to only being up for another 30 minutes.