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11. 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.
Heavy deadlifts & rack pulls: I sleep like the dead. Squats can have a similar effect.
Rowing, swimming, cycling, or other cardio: not so bad.
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 :-)
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 :-)
I put my alarm clock across the room so that I have to get up out of bed to shut it off. Negative reinforcement works!
What worked for me was (1) going to bed at a reasonable hour and being sure I got 8 full hours of sleep, (2) giving up coffee, and (3) going running every morning (I lived next to golden gate park, totally worth it). I was able to get up early, got tons more done in the morning, and I also got in shape. Best thing I've ever done.
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3. Don't do drugs. Most importantly, do not consume caffeine. No coffee, no tea!
Green tea has a lot less caffeine than black tea.
http://chadao.blogspot.com/2008/02/caffeine-and-tea-myth-and...
You only need one tip: get a kid. Won't help with productivity though.
stole my comment, that's exactly what I was going to say...
All of which is just corroborating the linked post: just do it. Make yourself go to sleep at a reasonable hour. Make yourself wake up, by whatever means you want. You'll find you adapt surprisingly well.
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 :-)
One neat app I've discovered lately that helps me with this tremendously is Sleep as Android[1]. It has a "CAPTCHA" mode for alarms, where you have to do some additional task to wake up. It has a few choices for the task, but the most amazing one is QR Code scanning. You "teach" the phone a QR code of your choice, and when the alarm goes off you have to scan the code to turn it off. The use case is printing a QR code…
Much like the GP poster, I'm usually not myself when awakened by an alarm. I can go 30 feet to turn off an alarm and return to bed without ever really being awake. Having to do some multiplication and division wakes up the more rational parts of my brain.
* Keep the coffee machine in the bedroom. Before going to bed, load it up with water and coffee put the alarm clock next to it. Also have a cup and some milk next to it. Next morning, when the clock goes off, you're going to have to walk over there anyway so you might as well turn on the coffee machine. Now you can go back to dozing off but after a few minutes, the scent and prospect of the readily available coffee should make getting up much easier, plus you can sip the coffee in bed.
* Count to ten, and get up on ten.
* Take melatonin the night before to go to sleep on time in the first place.
* Log your sleeping hours to get an idea of what irregular or overlong sleep is costing you in terms of time.
11. 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.
This math doesn't work - you're gonna wake up early to have more productive hours, but you'll waste the gain by exercising.
Buy a Zeo. It really works. Long/short it monitors your sleep state and wakes you during the best time. I've never in my entire life been a morning person; I recently had enough struggling with my startup and took a fulltime job and decided to be the early guy. Have been to work 7:30 or early without issue for nearly two months. And most shocking, I feel great, fully awake and don't have any tiredness. Great product.…
There is an app on the AppStore that claims to do something similar using only built-in phone hardware (accelerometer). Anybody got any experience with it? Seems like some reviewers claims that the readings are bogus. Is the accelerometer on the iPhone sensitive enough to register movements as claimed by the app? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320...
It probably depends on your mattress how well it works. If you've got a foam mattress or one of those ones with commercials of dropping bowling balls next wine glass towers, then yeah, maybe your phone won't pick it up. But it seems to work well enough with my cheap mattress.
In the morning, I can definitely see spikes on the graph for times I know I woke up to pee, so it's definitely detecting something. I don't know about those reviews that say they still get graphs with it left on the dresser; I've not tried that test.