I want to start waking up earlier in the morning?!
Question:
I want to start waking up earlier in the morning?
I have a real problem with waking up in the morning. It doesn't matter how long the alarm is going off or how many times I press snooze, I just can't bring myself in the morning to wake up. I have 2 alarm clocks, but I usually press snooze till someone else tells me to turn them off. My mom usually yells at me to get up for 45 minutes until I actually wake up. Usually when I do wake up, I don't have time for breakfast, a shower, or even to brush my teeth. It's an awful feeling to have to go through the day like this. Even on days when I don't have to do anything, I sleep in way to late. I usually sleep in till about 3 or 4 in the afternoon on weekends, and when I wake up, I think of what an a** I am for sleeping in. I know some people aren't morning people, but this is ridiculous. I failed out of my school because I never made it to morning classes, and I miss days of work all the time because I don't get up for my job. Does anyone know anything I can do to wake up?
Answers:
You can't change your ways overnight (LOL) but you can change.
The secret is to keep regular hours. Don't sleep in on weekends, because then you can't get to sleep Sunday night. Go to bed at the same time every night, get up at the same time every day. Even if this means laying for hours in the dark, awake, at first - do it!
Light regulates your sleep cycle. Take any heavy curtains off your bedroom window, so the morning light can help you wake up. Don't stay in overly bright rooms at night. Sleep in the dark, no lights. Make sure you get enough sunlight, especially in the morning.
It is always easier to cycle your sleeping forward around the clock than backwards. In other words, stay up later and later each nite, and get up later and later each day, for a week or so until you work yourself around the clock to a more "normal" sleeping time.
Once you are there, make the effort to keep getting up, every day, at that "better time". It will take a while, but you can do it.