The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.
Descartes was accustomed to working in bed until noon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
Even in his portrait René Descartes looks somnolent.
Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning
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I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.
My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum number of hours, though, I feel like a million bucks.
That's how it's been for me too. Part of me misses feeling not-battered. The rest of me really enjoys the energy I have despite that.
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Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had updated in the last day, and any reminders I had for the day. The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capabili…
It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created! Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too! Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for oth…
Thanks, I signed up and sent feedback. That Youtube video is marked as private so I can't view it; I thought I'd let you know in case it's something you often send to people as a demo.
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I envy you. On the side, 3 and 8 work incredibly well. I sleep on the top bunk and so I have to jump out of bed just to disable an alarm, or else my roommate starts kicking me through the bedsheet. It's a motivator, all right. And I wake up much faster on a day after a work-out session. I've been doing P90X for a little while now, and while it hurts like hell, the next day I wake up bursting with energy. It's great.
I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.
Climbing is different from typical gym workouts. It puts far more stress on your tendons than your muscles, and tends to exert injurious forces on your muscles when it does work on them. Tendons take longer to heal than muscles.
Plus, most climbers have a series of rapid warm-up and cool-down cycles -- climb, stop, belay, climb, stop, etc. -- which doesn't get the heart rate going the same way that an extended aerobic workout does.
Your climbing will tend to improve if instead of climbing a few hard routes, you climb a bunch of routes about one full grade below your maximum ability. Bonus points if you can score a belayer that doesn't mind the boring end of the rope for an entire evening. As your muscles become fatigued, your body will start trying to get lazy and sloppy, and that's where your technique will actually improve. Straining on a really hard route doesn't do anything good for technique / body position / etc.
(Former climbing instructor from Livermore. I really miss it, can you tell?)
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had updated in the last day, and any reminders I had for the day. The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capabili…
It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created! Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too! Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for oth…
Sorry, I don't understand Fahrenheit.
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#46Have young children.
Yeah I laughed when I saw the headline, thinking to myself "some people need tricks to get out of bed?, how silly". My daughters wake up at 6:30 every morning, that means I'm up too no matter what. Problem solved.
I take my four-year-old to preschool in the morning, which means I have to wake him up so he can get dressed and have breakfast in time to catch the bus. Which means I have to get up before he does.
On weekends, the boy stays in bed until 8:00. Unfortunately, his brothers do not follow his example.
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#47Light 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.
Skin has light receptors that help the body changing states. It helped me a lot to find out this.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had updated in the last day, and any reminders I had for the day. The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capabili…
It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created! Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too! Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for oth…
Am I right in thinking this is solely a webapp at the moment? I wouldn't really want to leave my computer on overnight. Can you recommend an app for waking from hibernation ready for your service to kick in?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created! Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too! Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for oth…
Sorry, I don't understand Fahrenheit.
Currently a web app but soon available on other platforms and we'll be adding Celsius soon too! Though for your forecast for today we currently speak the temperature in descriptive yet general terms...i.e. freezing temperatures with heavy snow or your forecast for today will be warm with showers.
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#50My problem with the "going to bed when tired" suggestion is that I've found that the most effective way to manage my ADD is to do most of my productive work after a long day because by then my brain has settled down enough to allow for extended periods of concentration.