Do you hate getting up in the morning?
Does the sound of your alarm clock set you in panic, dry sweats, and almost bring you to tears each morning?
Do you hate people that are happy and chipper early in the morning?
Do you need to have at least two cups of coffee before you can even acknowledge the day each morning?
Do you wish there was a way to make getting up easier?
Do you wish you had more time to get things done during the day?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, this ‘ible is for you.
Please note, I’m not a doctor, I never played one on TV, I didn’t even stay in a Holiday Inn last night, so please use this only as a guide and seek professional help for any problems or issues you may have.
With that said, I have been in the US Army for over 20 years and been deployed all over. During my time, 0300 (3am) wakeups were the norm. I remember cheering once when we were told that we could “sleep in” to 0400!
Over time, I’ve learned plenty of tricks for dealing with early mornings. Some from trial and error, some from actual research I’ve done in the past.
So here goes…
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The most important part of becoming a morning person is to understand why it’s so hard to wake up in the morning. With this simple understanding (and only a minute amount of discipline) you can find out how to enjoy the mornings more, and consequently get more time to live life!
Here is the secret. Your sleep is done in cycles. When you fall asleep, you start a cycle. As you sleep, you complete and start new sleep cycles. The duration of these cycles varies throughout the night. They can be as short as a few minutes, to a few hours.
If you wake up at the end of ANY of these cycles, you will feel fine and will be good to go all day long. The problem arises when one of these cycles is broken.
The problem with most people is that they use alarm clocks to wake them up. The alarm clock doesn’t know when your cycle ends. It just makes noise at a certain time. (Some gradually get louder, this is to reduce its abruptness, but it still isn’t ideal for waking up to.
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I had time to pray, eat breakfast without rushing and run a mile before work! THANK YOU!!!!! I've always wanted to be a morning person!
im going to try this tonight....got to get up at 8:00am (GMT), lets hope i dont feel really tired during the day when i actually really have to work.
About how long will it take for a person to acclimate to this method? I have school four mornings a week and work the other three as it stands, and I was wondering if this would be best started now, or next semester.
Good luck and let us all know how it turns out.
I'll definitely give it a go.
My life finally got to a point where I can sleep from 6am to 2pm. I still get my 8 hours of sleep, which is of course the point of sleeping at any time. The kids are teens, they ride the bus to and from school. Mate gets himself to work. Nobody bothers me during the day and I've been getting the best rest of my whole life.
My studio hours are 10pm to 5am and I will tell ya, I've been able to get more done since I started working while my family sleeps. I don't have to stop what I'm doing to make dinner. I have been able to spend more time with my family and not be under stress to get things done before bedtime, which was always a major sticking point in the past. Trying to work and be a parent and have time for my mate all stuffed into the 6am-10pm schedule meant a lot of clock-watching and interruption due to having other people's schedules getting in the way of my creative process.
However, when I have to be up at a prescribed time (regardless of the hours on the clock, some of us are just hard sleepers), I find that drinking a LOT of water before I go to bed seriously helps get me up when I wake up. No matter the clock time, my body loves to be asleep. My cycles are maybe different from someone else's, who knows. Waking up is not an easy thing, although I no longer feel groggy when I wake up with my "new" schedule. But on the days when I've got a meeting or something, if I've got to pee, I'm not going to roll over and go back to sleep!
BTW Liked the funny images, that is how an instructable should be
I wanted the 'ible to be readable. If I had pictures of me, no one would have been able to get to step 2! <Big Grins>
P.S. Are you in action there or some type of reserve program.