Hey, guess what. I was up at seven today. An hour a half earlier than usual.
So which advice did I take? Well, none of it specifically, really. I just thought of all the advice this morning and in some weird way I thought I’d be letting you all down if I slept in. So it is a kind of Weight Watchers effect here.
Wake Watchers.
This is not going to last forever, though, so I will implement some of the practical advice. I particularly like hiding the alarm clock in the drawer and the timed coffee machine. My coffee machine has no timer, but I might get one of those as a treat.
As for the hard-to-follow advice. Well, I don’t go to bed that late, when I actually think about it (about eleven), unless I’m going to the pub in which case it is a lost cause anyway. And getting up earlier on the weekends. Auch! All of you who said that are completely right, but that’s a price that is just to high for me. What I could do is wake up, make a cup of tea and read in bed, instead of going back to sleep.
I also have a very hard time getting up in the morning, so I wanted to add another vote for the morning TV option, particularly if you can have the TV automatically come on at the right time to a show you like to watch or news. A loud radio will get turned off and the radio at regular volume will just result in me drifting in and out of sleep as I listen to it, but listening to the TV will shortly have me looking to see what the hell’s going on and put me on the road to waking up.
I used to have a cable box/TV combo that allowed this to happen automatically, but now I do it myself by having a show to wake up to and, with an audio alarm waking me up shortly before, I turn on the tube and eventually get dragged out of my slumber.
I too am pathetic at getting up, or more to the point staying up.
It just seems that there is only more people/stuff you don’t like awaiting you in the Land of the Living, and the bed is so warm and comfortable. GASP! Now that I have that off my chest, my advice for you is thus:
Try to think of one positive thing to entice you out. For me, I used to try telling myself that if I went back to bed I would be stuck in this hell-hole forever. But thinking of my troubles at this early hour just makes me want to hide in bed. Now I say to myself, get through this day and you’ll be one day closer to leaving this hell-hole!
Corny, I know but for me it really works.
DH and I also have a very difficult time getting out of bed in the morning. DH, though, I’m fairly certain has a sleeping disorder that is a major part of his problem. Me, I hate my job to such an extent that just the thought of getting out of bed to go to work makes me ill.
So we quite frequently don’t hear the alarms go off. We have 6 (yes, that’s right 6 and they’re far from quiet) separate alarms that go off 5 minutes apart from each other. We also have 2 large drooly dogs that hate the sound of the alarms and will start getting in our faces until we turn them off. The alarms will go off non-stop anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour before we wake up… usually 10 minutes before we have to leave in the morning. It has gotten to the point where DH’s boss offered him $100 if he could be in on time for 30 consecutive days… he didn’t get the $100; blew it by day 5.
My cell phone comes with a ring, which I set to the alarm, that’s a rock and roll perversion of Beethoven V. It annoys me so much that not only does it wake me up but frequently just the beep the phone makes turning itself on will wake me up. I’m out of bed in less than a second, usually after the first note but before any of the rim shots.
From then on, I stay out of bed because doing otherwise would be certain death. Not literally, but almost.
