Early risers - please give me your tips!

[overthinkersanonnymus]

I really wish I was an early riser. My alarm goes off at 6.15 and I can snooze it for over an hour most days and even then, I could sleep for another hour!

I'm usually asleep for 10.30 - 11.00 so it's not that I'm having too little sleep, I just can't get my arse out of bed in the morning.

I really want to instill a good routine in the mornings with a little time to at least do my hair and makeup so I don't look like a tramp in the office. Honestly, sometimes I look homeless. I feel like my days will be more productive if I've gotten ready properly and maybe even done a little work out (that would be the pinnacle).

Please give me your tips in order to get myself up in the morning!

Put your alarm out of reach so you have to get up.

I can snooze my alarm without even waking so have moved it to my dressing table which means I have to physically get out of bed to switch it off and I find that helps as then I force myself to go to the bathroom and that wakes me up enough to start my day. There is usually two or three missed alarms before I do that though. I am SUCH a heavy sleeper which doesn't help.

Ingest caffeine asap upon waking.

No advice because in the school hols I don’t get out of bed till gone 11am!

you could put the alarm clock at the other side of the room so you have to get up to turn it off?

Get a toddler. Mine screams and throws things at me until I get up. Very effective.

change your alarm tone so it matches your ring tone.

it works.

I just get up/wake at the same time every day even in the holidays.

I've been wide awake by 5am every day over xmas.

So maybe just make it your habit and your body clock will adjust.

It does mean that I'm good for nothing by 6pm usually though and I never want a proper dinner or watch a movie in the evening.

You need a reason to get out of bed at that time. I'm awake at 630 most mornings as my career has dictated the time I get out of bed. Now it's becoming normal. I hate it.

I mean I have (not bad enough to be clinical) early waking insomnia but I wouldn't recommend that as a solution. When I'm sleeping normally I wake between 6:30 and 7:30 - I have an emergency alarm for 7:55 but I don't usually get to that point.

How much sleep do you get OP? What time do you go to bed? And when do you last drink anything caffeinated?

I think the key thing for being able to get up in the morning is having had enough sleep. Snoozing your alarm 6 times is the worst of both worlds because the sleep is poor quality and you don't have any time. Would you be better off setting your alarm 30 minutes later and getting another 30 mins of proper sleep while you work on shifting your body clock earlier?

Got to bed at 9.30. Make sure the heating comes on so the bedroom is warm before the time you have to get up by. Have something fun to do/a treat first thing. I get 30 mins of peace, just reading and having a cup of tea downstairs in my favourite chair before all the Mum..mum…mumming starts. Bliss

6am alarm, stumble out of bed, make coffee as fast as possible, sip coffee and look at news on phone for 15 minutes, take dog for a 30 min walk, come back and shower.
Wide awake by 7.30am

“My alarm goes off at 6.15 … I'm usually asleep for 10.30 - 11.00 so it's not that I'm having too little sleep”

It absolutely is that. If you go to bed at 10.30, you’re only there for 7 hours 45 before your alarm goes off. That’s just not long enough.

This point about the heating is a good one - I wake up as soon as my bedroom starts warming up so I actually have set my heating to come on later in the hope I'll sleep longer but I have the opposite problem from you!

I'm usually asleep for 10.30 - 11

There's many people that need 8-9 hours sleep. Sounds like you're giving yourself just a bit under what you need. Why are you punishing yourself? 🤔

I take melatonin and go to bed early. You have a choice to get up or snooze. You're making the wrong choice. Simple as that. If it's important, you'll wake up.

Total failure to read the OP properly, sorry @overthinkersanonnymus

I see you say you go to bed at 10:30-11 - is that bed or sleep? 8+ hours of "sleep opportunity" time is recommended. You're giving yourself 7:15 to 7:45.

I'd strongly recommend "why we sleep" by Matthew Walker. Excellent book and an excellent audio book as well.

I’m up at 6 every day, weekends holidays always. Aim to be in bed by 9:30 and asleep by 10. Like a pp said tho: I’m knackered by 7 pm and don’t want to eat or watch much tv / movies in the evenings. I start the day with a coffee and a silent 20 minutes to myself. It’s my favourite time of day.

Lumi light is a game changer and alarm out of reach

I set my alarm for 6, get up immediately, feed the cats and get a coffee, then I go back to bed and watch the news until 7 before getting up for work.
I'm so used to getting out of bed at 6 I automatically wake up then and go downstairs even if the alarm is off.

Get a bastard cat who decides to bring a toy with a bell in into your bedroom at 6:15 every morning.

Get a dog who wants a wee as soon as it wakes up.

Get a cat that demands to be fed at 6.00am every morning.

Seriously though my alarm goes at 6, the radio turns on at 6.30 and I have a quiet coffee while I wake up. I then empty the dish washer, same routine every morning - sometimes on autopilot.

Watching with interest. I've no idea how I managed it when the kids were wee, I'm like flaming rip van winkle.

There's definitely a gap in the market for some kind of human-bed-catapult that literally just flings you out the bed.

I have never been a lark. Not an owl either, but getting up is the worst. When I had two babies and had to get some sleep and get up for work I just went to bed stupidly early.
I'd say 10.30 / 11 is too late for you OP. Bring it forward a good hour. Or more.

Buy a really good coffee machine so you look forward to getting out of bed for your 1st one