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Sidenote: Mega annoyance. Why does the iPhone not wake for an alarm. I think pretty much every other phone in existance has nailed this?
I have a small 3 year-old walk into my bedroom ~6am every day and jump up and down on the end of the bed saying, I want to have breakfast/watch Bob the Builder/brush the baby's teeth.. Funnily enough, this perfect alarm-clock never fails to wake me up!
Try to get used to waking up always the same time. Every time I wake up early in the morning, I kiss my girlfriend, then get up, and after the bathroom I do some workout. Nothing serius, just to make myself fresher. And then, for about an hour, I work on my private project(s), until my girlfriend gots up too (she's a little sleepy :) ). Then have breakfast (ALWAYS have a substantial breakfast), and then I go to work…
I'm going to sleep right now so I can try this in 7 hours.
I've learned (and adapted) to the fact that I just can't get any reasonable work done in the first 3 hours or so of the day. I can ingest massive amounts of caffeine, go run a marathon, or whatever, but my brain just needs a few hours to get up to speed.
But I sympathize, I am much more productive at night than the morning.
Afterwards comes my ritual, 1 cup of coffee, breakfast, another cup of coffee with my pipe, all while reading emails/news etc. If I skip any of that, especially coffee, I'm grumpy all day long (and with a headache for some reason).
Although I live like a night person I've found that if I get used to waking up around 5-6 am I'm much more energetic and feel like I'm really seizing my day. The problem is that it's really easy for me to break the habit of rising early so I've only accomplished that for month long periods followed by trimesters of sleeping to noon and more.
If my wife wakes up before me, she usually kicks me out of bed. I get up, shower, make sure my bag is packed, get dressed, maybe inhale a quick breakfast, ride my bike to work (usually quite late and still in zombie mode), have a cup of coffee, check feeds+email, and then finally start working on real work by 1000hrs.
I'm a slacker, I dislike my job, and I'm a heavy sleeper. I have a little trouble getting to sleep, but once I'm there, it's over.
Usually try to get some fresh air, eat some breakfast, go through RSS reader, then get to work.
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You have no idea how many times I've turned my blackberry alarm off and thought I had hit snooze. the iPhone alarm is a thousand time nicer with 2 different mechanisms, touch snooze and slide off.
You can also hit the volume buttons on the side to snooze it.
I leave my curtains open and wake up around 6:30 when the sun starts shining. No alarm clock. Then I work out for 30 minutes, eat a light breakfast, and walk downstairs to work.
I have a small 3 year-old walk into my bedroom ~6am every day and jump up and down on the end of the bed saying, I want to have breakfast/watch Bob the Builder/brush the baby's teeth.. Funnily enough, this perfect alarm-clock never fails to wake me up!