My advice, not that I follow it, don't use snooze and if you wake up naturally close to your alarm don't go back to sleep.
Get out of bed straight away and get in the shower.

I despise mornings but that works best for me.

Due to the hours of my new job, life has completely transformed for me. I used to be a night owl, up late on the Xbox, now I'm up at 3am most mornings and I love it. I watch the sun come up every day and I'm usually done with work by midday.

I never thought I was a morning person, but once you get in the routine, there's nothing better. I'm in bed by eight or nine most nights, and don't feel I'm missing anything by hitting the hay so early.

My top tip for getting up in the morning? Have something to look forward to the next day, and think about that before you go to sleep. If there's something you actually want to do, getting up really is easy. I'm loads happier. The new job is challenging and I've got purpose.

That's what it's all about Temps.

stonechalice wrote:

Due to the hours of my new job, life has completely transformed for me. I used to be a night owl, up late on the Xbox, now I'm up at 3am most mornings and I love it. I watch the sun come up every day and I'm usually done with work by midday. I never thought I was a morning person, but once you get in the routine, there's nothing better. I'm in bed by eight or nine most nights, and don't feel I'm missing anything by hitting the hay so early. My top tip for getting up in the morning? Have something to look forward to the next day, and think about that before you go to sleep. If there's something you actually want to do, getting up really is easy. I'm loads happier. The new job is challenging and I've got purpose. That's what it's all about Temps.

I feel like you regularly waking up at 3am and being happy with this arrangement is the most significant problem posted in the thread so far. I demand that you cease being happy at once!

I can't seem to help it but I almost always go to bed about 1am. My son wakes up around 4.30am most mornings, I then bring him downstairs while I drift in and out on the sofa either with him or while he watches tv/plays etc. I wake up proper at 6.30am. At weekends I do the same time, but kip when he does midday.

I really think I should start developing a new routine though, as most days I am tired by about 3pm.

I spent most of my 20s (when not doing a proper job) getting up in the afternoon and not being able to sleep until 5 am or so, and definitely would've called myself a night person.

But I've spent a lot of the last 5 years in particular just sitting at home working at my desk with no specific deadlines or any reason to do anything right now and I get up at 8 every day, and go to bed around midnight every night. Sometimes I sleep well sometimes I don't, but I get up regardless. 

No caffeine and very little booze is an obvious help, but mostly it's just a case of forcing myself into a routine. I actually set a weekly target for working hours and have a spreadsheet where I input every hour I do. I don't always meet the target but I'm never far off, and to get there I basically have to get up and put a few hours in before lunch. If I'm tired I'm probably less productive, but I put the time in anyway. I might be a geeky-saddo but it works for me and was probably necessary to keep a steady pace throughout my research and writing.

tigerswiftly wrote:

How the fuck do you people cope with, like, 5 hours sleep?

I'd love to go to bed at 9:30/10:30 and get up at 5. That's the dream.

We had this discussion on the forum before but aren't 4hr chunks the right thing? So 4hrs is fine, 8hrs is, so on so on. Must vary slightly by person but it's sleep cycles or something .If so, I can fully understand someone getting less than 5hrs feeling better than someone on 7.

Yeah or that maybe.

I've spent most of my working life getting up at 5am and being the one to open a gym at 6am, being expected to be bright and chirpy and motivating. I find that once I got into the routine it was very easy to get up and enjoy it.
Weekends I would often get up at 5am for a run with my sparring partner. I find a regular exercise programme and healthy diet really helps me sleep better and wake up feeling fresh and motivated.

Once I moved to Oxford and quit the gym job I had for 7 years I started working as a primary school sports coach yet kept my early rising routine with some light exercise and a healthy bowl of porridge and fruit.
Now there's nothing I love better than being the first up, watching the sun rise as I sit In my conservatory sipping coffee.

Not sure what I can suggest to help. Just wanted to brag.
Good luck!

Cats are usually asleep. 6 hours awake is probably maximum Tiger.

I met an instructor years ago who told me that I should learn to "eat the frog"

When I asked what he meant he replied "how do you eat a raw frog? Probably quite disgusting right? So you just grimace and eat it in one go as quick as you can.
Just eat the damn frog.
Apply this to anything difficult in life. Just do it. Don't hesitate, don't discuss or debate it. Just fucking do it. "

So when the alarm goes off, just eat the frog. Do it.

My credo is "Get in amongst it."

Doesn't work, sadly, but it's fun to say.

A boycott?

You need a reason to get up mate. That's what it boils down to, keep it simple.
Find something that you're passionate about that you can do first thing and look forward to. Then do whatever it takes to get up and do it.
Do it enough and it becomes a habit.

Well that's fucked it

I do genuinely enjoy the post wake up snooze in bed more than the actual main sleep, often. Great dream times.