If I want to wake up refreshed, I just don't eat or drink anything about 9-10 hours before I want to wake. Works for me every time!
Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me
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#72I have had enough experience with this and the only lesson I had is this: I wake up early in the morning when I need to. Got a meeting, get up for it. Nothing to do, well enjoy your three and a half hour movie you watched last night and catch some sleep.
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#73The problem I have with a lot of "self-improvement" (?) tips like these is that I find it hard to believe that they are necessary.
You need to start getting up earlier? Go to bed early enough to get the sleep you need and when your alarm goes off the next day, just get out of bed. No tricks, special techniques needed. Don't hit snooze. Don't delude yourself into "I'll just rest my eyes for a minute." Don't justify staying in bed for another 15 minutes because you set the alarm early. Just get the hell out of bed. And stick to doing it until it becomes a habit.
Is it really that hard for most people? It's just self discipline.
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#74Why would you want to wake up at 5AM in the first place?
If all you want is a few more hours of time, why not stay up a few hours later?
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#75What coffee is not bad!?!?!? Want to learn to get up early? Move to the suburbs and get 1 hour+ commute. I wake up most days just before my alarm goes off..... and I used be a night person.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about a cat? There is no snooze button on a cat that wants to be fed. :-)
Are you comparing the amount of attention cats need with the amount children need (particularly infants & toddlers)? You are so going to have a wakeup call one day :)
Hmmm.,... two kids, eight cats..... Kids are easier.
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#771) Have kids.
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#7811. Get enough exercise. I find when I'm getting regular exercise, I open my eyes in the morning and I'm awake and ready to go. It's the opposite when I've been lazing around for a few weeks not doing my physical activity.
My uncensored opinion is that the original article is garbage. Waking up early isn't about what you do in the morning, its about what you do the night before (or fail to do.) Forcing yourself to wake up early for the sake of waking up early is destructive as it means your body has not gotten enough sleep yet. Your going to either have impeded judgement capability, diminished work energy or both. A lot of people prete…
With regard to your second point, late night hackers might find f.lux useful. I have used it with success the past year and half; just be sure it is not activated while doing anything which includes a color palette.
Check it out here: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
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#79> You won’t take my word for it? You are not so smart has a great writeup about the effects of coffee. Go read it now!
Yes, a "great writeup" that makes a ton of controversial assertions which are, at best, tenuously supported by a smattering of cherry-picked studies interspersed between non-academic articles.
I'm not impressed.
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#80The problem I have with a lot of "self-improvement" (?) tips like these is that I find it hard to believe that they are necessary. You need to start getting up earlier? Go to bed early enough to get the sleep you need and when your alarm goes off the next day, just get out of bed. No tricks, special techniques needed. Don't hit snooze. Don't delude yourself into "I'll just rest my eyes for a minute." Don't justify st…
"... when your alarm goes off the next day, just get out of bed ... Just get the hell out of bed ... It's just self discipline."
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/10/07/just_is_a_fourletter...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JustIsaDangerousWord
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2003/08/cant_you_just_...
Or, for a more specific counterpoint,