Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning
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Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning
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#2Light is the only thing thats done it for me, ever. In high school I made myself get up and turn on a light, which was permission to go back and lie on the bed for another 15 minutes. Without light, I've never been able to get up.
The funny part is I sometimes forget this for extended periods of time and suffer awfully trying to get up in the morning.
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#3Light is the only thing thats done it for me, ever. In high school I made myself get up and turn on a light, which was permission to go back and lie on the bed for another 15 minutes. Without light, I've never been able to get up. The funny part is I sometimes forget this for extended periods of time and suffer awfully trying to get up in the morning.
Light works for me too. It's also the reason why I often oversleep in hotels with heavy light-proof drapes.
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#4Sleep on the floor. Bang. You're out.
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#5If you have a programmable thermostat, set it to drop to 64 around bedtime and rise to 72 when you want to wake up.
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#6Best thing I do is wake up and go to the bathroom or shower. I mean showering is practically sleeping anyways, white noise, quiet, warmth. Your just verticle for it.
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#7couple of steve pavlina articles on the same topic:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-ea...
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right...
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#8actually i am more of a stick person (though not always)... so i find that reminding myself of a failure motivates... especially when its 5AM and freezing - the reminder of having to spend all my hours at a sucky job and not doing anything useful, just springs me out onto my laptop!!! and not to mention the "zone" is just brilliant...
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#9Had to become a morning person this semester (early classes). My tactics are twofold:
Coffee by the bed. Literally within about two feet. I'm a little crazy, so I've hacked my coffee machine together, but programmable store-bought stuff works too.
iPhone by the bed. It's really bright, I hold it a few inches from my face and start going through my RSS reader. Gets my mind in gear and my pupils to contract.
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#10The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.