Find people to work out with and establish a time to meet early in the morning. Make sure they will be pissed off if you don't show up. Rowing is ideal for this.
Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning?
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#112Its not like somebody will pay me if i get up early :)
I say stay up as long as required and try to get as much done as possible. But one important thing is to maintain atleast a 12 hour overlap with other people in your team if you are in a startup. An added advantage is, there is somebody to monitor the servers round the clock ;).
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#113Get a kid, particularly the infant kind. They'll wake up at 5am without fail everyday for the first several years and are impossible to ignore when they're awake. When they start sleeping in late, get a another one.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
This plus consistency (i.e. Don't try to wake up at 5AM M-F and then sleep til noon every Saturday and Sunday).
Consistency is the most important part. You need to reset your internal clock to get used to going to sleep and waking up at the same time. Even though it sucks at first -- you may have trouble falling asleep and then getting up early you'll still be tired -- you have to muddle through to get on a regular sleep schedule. Eventually, your body will adjust. Try not to deviate much at all. (That's advice given to me by…
I will never have a good sleep - wake cycle. I normally go to sleep at midnight. wake up at 0600. And the worst thing is that I work, read, study & sometimes even eat on my bed. I'm not at my home there's very little room to make big changes with. But I'll try to re arrange my little room to keep up with your advice. thanx.
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#115I love the way my mom's younger brother wakes me up. This is a memory of my kid time. He softly talk to me saying "it's better to wake up" while providing some dim light with his little torch. It gives me a comfortable wake up.
I wish I can have that smooth wake up all the time but now he has his own kids to worry about and he's so far away from me. It'll be good if there's something emulates that feeling.
My story won't mean you anything. But I enjoyed reminiscing those nice wake ups & if I ever have to wake some one up I'll definitely do it my uncles way.
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#116I'd recommend sleeping in a room that gets sunlight as early as possible. As the room warms up (and gets brighter), you'll naturally wake up less groggily. If your schedule can handle it, try just going to sleep when you are tired and seeing when you wake up (ie. don't use an alarm at all). I tried this for about six months, and the following happened. The first week or two I slept upwards of 10-11 hours a night, and…
Agree with the sunlight recommendation. In my case, controlling light levels makes all the difference. I need it pitch black when I'm supposed to be sleeping (whenever that is), with gradually increasing light when I need to get up. Some motorized blinds and a sunrise simulating alarm (possibly linked into a home automation system) might help, since the sun comes up too early during the summer and late in the winter at high latitudes.
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#118I wonder how Paul Buchheit (the guy who started GMail) got around this problem. He mentioned that he's not an early riser in the book "Founders at Work".
When searching more on the subject, I found this interesting text:
"This sort of smugness is prevalent among morning people, who count among their ranks Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, nearly every American president, and even Jesus. (See Mark 1:35: "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.") Night people are stuck with psychopaths like Adolf Hitler and Juan Arreola, the guy in Pennsylvania who nearly killed his girlfriend's 2-year-old last year, explaining to a judge, "I'm not a morning person."" http://friendfeed.com/e/cc0e9eb4-39ff-11dd-9d6f-003048343a40...
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#119These help me with early wake-ups (3:00am):
* My pre-alarm goes off 15 minutes early. After this alarm, I start thinking and worrying about what I need to do. When the real alarm sounds I'm ready to jump out of bed.
* I don't use the bathroom in the morning when I'm sleepy. A full bladder helps me stay awake.
* I nap whenever I can't work.
* Also, drink some water before you go to bed and don't use the bathroom, this will help you wake up in the morning.
Re: Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning?
#120Go to bed earlier at night.
GO to bed earlier at night. Thats pretty much it - We've all read the various sleep 'hacks' and blogs out there but the only thing that worked for me was to go to bed earlier. Like an old man, I now go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6 ;) - But business/work/wife dictates that I get up earlier - when I first started this schedule it felt like I had been missing out on the wonderful early mornings. I just felt a bit mor…
Going to bed is easy; the trick is being able to get to sleep earlier. Melatonin can help, and so can simply not getting as much sleep as you'd like for a few days in a row. And only shift your schedule in short increments if you're looking to make a bigger change eventually.