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Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Re: Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Post by pumblechook »

The best tip: challenge your basic assumptions about sleep and experiment to find what works for you.

I've found that hitting the general 1.5 hour sleep cycle pattern works for me (i.e. the amount of sleep you get is a multiple of 1.5) much better than anything else in terms of actually getting up and feeling well rested.

It is extremely difficult for me to get up and go to bed at the same time every day (not to mention unnecessarily inconvenient), but if I can get exactly 6 hours of sleep every night (or 7.5 if I'm feeling particularly tired), I can wake up easily at any time and feel well rested.

Re: Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Post by blhack »

WayneDB wrote: post #28

This is all I need: http://www.amazon.com/EcoTeas-Organic-Yerba-Loose-5-Pound/dp... and http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Ancients-Bombilla-Strainerstraw...

I've been drinking this brand for quite a long time, and it's about $10 cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/Rosamonte-Traditional-Yerba-Mate/dp/B0...

It's surprising to me that yerba is just starting to catch on in the US.

You should try it some time with a little bit of milk and peppermint syrup. It's heavenly :).

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Post by andyking »

petercooper wrote: post #18

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 find that the most banal things on the radio suddenly become endlessly fascinating when the alternative is getting out of bed.

"This advert for conservatories? Oh, I'll just stay in bed until the end of the commercials.. ooh, I've not heard this Rihanna song for a few hours, just one more song.."

Re: Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Post by eliben »

wtracy wrote: post #17
parbo wrote: post #3

You only need one tip: get a kid. Won't help with productivity though.

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 :)

Re: Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

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Post by npsimons »

randallsquared wrote: post #8

It took me a month of living with withdrawal symptoms and headaches to get over the addiction. Let me just point out that this is totally not normal. I drink 10-15 (20-oz) cups of coffee a week, in addition to caffeinated sodas, and when I'd go off caffeine for a few weeks (as I used to do regularly), I'd have 2-3 days of feeling depressed from normal, and a very mild but persistent headache over the first 1-2 days o…

I take issue with his "coffee = bad" assertion as well. Maybe he was just drinking too much coffee. I know I was getting chest pains when I used to drink way too much, so I quit for a couple of years. Now I'm back to one french pressed cup everyday, although I don't need it, and I finish it well before noon. A little bit of good coffee goes a long way, and although no definitive link to good health has been found yet, medical research is looking into it because of correlations that have been found (just google "health benefits of coffee").
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