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Consistency. I used to wake up at 4am every day to go to the gym. The secret is that I wouldn't break my sleeping schedule on weekends. If you're staying up l

by skylark 10y ago

Consistency. I used to wake up at 4am every day to go to the gym. The secret is that I wouldn't break my sleeping schedule on weekends. If you're staying up late on weekends, you're never going to be a morning person - Mondays will always be brutal, and you'll start feeling normal around Thursday/Friday only to repeat the cycle.

rleigh 10y ago
Consistency is definitely the key. Your body clock is pretty good so long as you have a routine and stick to it. I've been both a morning person and a night owl. When I worked 12 hour shifts 0600 'til 1800, I got up at 0400. I always woke at 0359.50, and turned off the alarm just before its first beep. That's how crazy accurate the internal clock is. I'd always sleep at the same time, IIRC 2100. Now I work normal-ish office hours I get up at 0730, work from 0900-0930 to 1730-1800. I could work earlier or later, and this means I'm a bit more lax at sleeping. Case in point, replying here at 2240 when I should be thinking about sleeping. I think you can adapt to any cycle you like so long as you have the willpower to define the sleep and wake times, and stick to them. It only takes a couple of weeks and then it's second nature.
- thecupisblue 10y ago
  Totally. I used to wake up at 6.30 5X a week to go to the gym before work. Then I had few weeks of vacation and found it terribly hard to get back into the routine afterwards.
  - rleigh 10y ago
    For me I think the worst invention for discipline is a "snooze" button on an alarm. When it goes off, you must get up. While it's tempting to use, I always find that I feel like crap if I use it--you're not getting quality sleep in the extra 10 minutes before it goes off again, so you might as well be up and training your body to get up at that time, no matter how annoying that might be!
    - thecupisblue 10y ago
      Oh it's terrible, I can just snooze forever. Tho I tried using all kinds of alarm clocks without snooze or with challenges - math, memory, puzzle, retype, NFC. None helped because I'd either do it in sleep or force close if it was sufficiently annoying. Now that I think about it, with the coming of spring I'm waking up earlier then ever - I should probably get a light based alarm clock. Or make one.

by skylark 10y ago

rleigh 10y ago

Consistency is definitely the key. Your body clock is pretty good so long as you have a routine and stick to it. I've been both a morning person and a night owl. When I worked 12 hour shifts 0600 'til 1800, I got up at 0400. I always woke at 0359.50, and turned off the alarm just before its first beep. That's how crazy accurate the internal clock is. I'd always sleep at the same time, IIRC 2100. Now I work normal-ish office hours I get up at 0730, work from 0900-0930 to 1730-1800. I could work earlier or later, and this means I'm a bit more lax at sleeping. Case in point, replying here at 2240 when I should be thinking about sleeping. I think you can adapt to any cycle you like so long as you have the willpower to define the sleep and wake times, and stick to them. It only takes a couple of weeks and then it's second nature.

thecupisblue 10y ago
Totally. I used to wake up at 6.30 5X a week to go to the gym before work. Then I had few weeks of vacation and found it terribly hard to get back into the routine afterwards.
- rleigh 10y ago
  For me I think the worst invention for discipline is a "snooze" button on an alarm. When it goes off, you must get up. While it's tempting to use, I always find that I feel like crap if I use it--you're not getting quality sleep in the extra 10 minutes before it goes off again, so you might as well be up and training your body to get up at that time, no matter how annoying that might be!
  - thecupisblue 10y ago
    Oh it's terrible, I can just snooze forever. Tho I tried using all kinds of alarm clocks without snooze or with challenges - math, memory, puzzle, retype, NFC. None helped because I'd either do it in sleep or force close if it was sufficiently annoying. Now that I think about it, with the coming of spring I'm waking up earlier then ever - I should probably get a light based alarm clock. Or make one.