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Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Re: Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Post by freshfey »

SatvikBeri wrote: post #7
gnubardt wrote: post #5

Going 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.

I work with therod and I basically do the same. Normally I do 1x 20min nap after lunch. If it was a rough night, with little sleep - one nap at 9am and one around 3/4pm.

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

> 2 Don’t listen to that voice in your head. You know, the one that always tells you: “Just 10 more minutes of sleep won’t hurt right? We will definitely get up after that.”

I listen to that voice every day. My alarm goes off at 4:30 AM, I doze for another ten minutes, and then I get up promptly at 4:40 AM. YMMV, but for me, that last ten minutes makes the difference between staggering out of bed feeling ill and half-zonked, and rising awake and alert.

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Post by benwr »

I have tried nearly all of these, and the only thing that consistently works for me is forcing myself to go to bed by midnight, and preferably at 23:00.

On nights when I get less than seven and a half hours of sleep, it's like I'm a different person immediately after waking up: I don't care what my future or previous self wants. I only want to go back to sleep.

On nights when I give myself eight or more hours to sleep, I will wake up on time without any external prompt (including the alarm). It's a lot easier to be rational about time at the end of a day than it is at the beginning.

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Post by petercooper »

The most important step is to get up.

It's the best approach when sane-me wakes up first, but usually a totally different personality wakes up first. It can justify almost anything in its effort to stay in bed. Kinda creepy actually, it's what I'd imagine having a multiple personality disorder is like. It's not even a voice, I am not "me" when I wake up :-)

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