How To Wake Up
Waking up is one of the hardest things to do in life. Nobody likes to wake up early, everybody likes to snooze. Waking up easy is an illusion, you think. I have reviewed a couple of ways to wake up and made a small selection of ways that might work!
Put your alarm outside of arm’s reach
And old trick. Already used in the dark ages. They put the rooster outside, so when it started to crow, they needed to get out to cut his neck and eat it. But it is also a way loved by college people. Put your alarm way from your bed and you have to wake up if you don’t want to wake up your roommate.
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Perfect amount of time
You need 30 minutes to get up, take a shower, eat, read paper, drink coffee and get to class? Set your alarm 29 minutes ahead of when you need to leave. You will wake up, think of all the things you need to do and you get up.
BLABLA
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Conditioning yourself
Pavlov did it with dogs, you do it with yourself. Condition yourself. Train yourself in waking up. You need to associate the alarm with getting up, not with snoozing as you do now. Train for 4-5 days, know how to wake up now and enjoy!
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I am a big fan of the last one. Conditioning yourself to get out of bed, I like the concept only enough to do it! What way would be the way you use? Let me know in the comment section below!
This is a post by Stefan Knapen from StudySuccessful.com, a blog about studying successful. Stefan is a med school student from the Netherlands who likes to experiment with study tactics and with everything which comes with studying!
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Thank you on these great tips something that I am really going to keep in mind as I sometimes really battle to get out of bed especially at this time of the year when one knows that holidays are fast approaching.
I really like the tip about putting the alarm away from your bed because it forces you to get out of bed.
I use the trick of putting the alarm just out of reach. If you can reach the alarm while still lying down, it is too close. It is too easy to turn the alarm off and fall back asleep. If you have to physically get up, your body is much less likely to fall back asleep.
I hate get up early :@
Nice and funny article
I’m not a person to take a shower in the morning, I usually do it the night before. But I find that it sure does help wake you a bit.
Wake up early in the morning not only hardest but worst in routine life and hard specially in winter season, some of your idea very unique and may helpful but still m believe wake up early little bit tough.
I am horrible at waking up, I have been known to sleep 2 or 3 hours past my set alarm, but the past few weeks I have found a way that seems to be working for me. My fiancé gets up early than me and recently she has been making me a bagel first thing in the morning. When she lets me know it’s ready I am able to get up since I need to eat the bagel before it gets cold and goes to waste.
Pros: A yummy bagel in the morning
Cons: Lots of fattening cream cheese
Someone should invent a toaster alarm clock that does this automatically, would have been helpful when I lived alone.
Conditioning is truly the most effective way of waking up, but if you haven’t had enough sleep the alarm clock is the only way to ensure you make it on time. I seldom use an alarm clock, as I’m fairly well trained to wake up on time….hahahaha
Your right about this sleeping problem.. waking up in bed is one of my hardest thing to do.. i love to sleep and i just want to lie in bed until the time passes me by..
but if you have work we have to be more energetic in starting our day..
i don’t know but i’m also a type of person who woke by itself.. it seems my body is conditioned to wake up in any instance
Nice and funny article
waking up early is really hard, i decided to give up on it, lol
I try to eat lightly for dinner, I get around 7.5 hours of sleep and I always wake up hating it. Am I waking up in the wrong stage of sleep?
Its not problem for me. Because Im sleeping in morning. Im working at night.
I use the trick of putting the alarm just out of reach.
I try to eat lightly for dinner.
Thanks for all the wonderfull comments!
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I don’t think you are waking up in the wrong stage, because the sleep cycle is 90 minutes, which means you had 5 cycles with 7,5 hours. I think you should try to eat a little bit before sleep (only light things like some yoghurt (low-fat, not fat-free) and an apple or something), perhaps that will help.
Sleep is a hard thing to understand and you can only find out what is best for you if you test a lot!
I use the trick of putting the alarm just out of reach.
I’ve always had trouble sleeping early and waking up on time, but you know then I noticed that it was just that I didnt set my mind set that it would really be best to sleep earlier and wake up earlier instead of the later. So for me at least… if it I just get in the habit of going to bed at the right time and getting that 8 hours of sleep then the consistency of it makes it not so bad to wake up early.
Till then,
Jean
I used to have a great alarm clock that played soft music in the morning that gradualy rose in volume for 15 minutes then the alarm went off, it was designed to gently lift you from a deep sleep. But my Girlfiend has banned any Electronic clocks from anywhere near my head.
I always have trouble getting up in the mornings, thanks for the post on it.
My usual morning routine is pretty basic, but it works for me. After I get up, I shave and put on my gym clothes. Then I head for the gym, do my workout, return home, shower, and dress. After that I’ll usually talk my kids for a bit and have breakfast.I like going to the gym, so it serves as a good reason to get out of bed. I know that exercising will leave me feeling even more energized.
I have but your advice to the test this new year, and so far it has worked ok today was really the first day using this but I am sure if I got out of bed this morning and I am at work on time it can only get better.:)
These are great tips. I find myself hitting the snooze button way too many times every morning. Often times, I finding myself late and having to speed walk to class
They were called the Taster’s Choice Couple, and people were so engrossed by this that, when the commercials stopped airing, people were actually CONTACTING THE COMPANY, demanding to find out what happened to the couple!
Great post, I am always having trouble getting up on time. Nice looking alarm clock as well.
I found that alarm clock online, just a quick update, looks beautiful too. Thanks for the article stefank.
l think this is good article.
this is a great way to get up. I used to have one in high school that would roll away when it rang.
I had a hysterectomy and it didn’t bother me at all.i still felt like a complete woman but had the added assurance that any cancer cells that had snuck into the uterus were gone.
Get up early is really hard for me. Good article about it.
Waking up is not the hardest things to do in life, but getting up is.
the only things you need is 4 alarma clocks with different tones and in different locations. you will never escape from them
I have always been a morning person, I wake up 5 minutes before the alarm goes off. The flip side if I don’t set the alarm I don’t wake up. Kinda weird huh? Either way I have found if you have a roommate or significant other squirt guns are the best way to wake a hard sleeper, and you are out of reach and can’t whack you. I have had to do this.
I use the trick of putting the alarm just out of reach
it is a good way too
I try to eat lightly for dinner, I get around 7.5 hours of sleep and I always wake up hating it. Am I waking up in the wrong stage of sleep?
Wake up early in the morning not only hardest but worst in routine life and hard specially in winter season, some of your idea very unique and may helpful but still m believe wake up early little bit tough.