How do I get to bed early

nucker

In order for me to wake up earlier?

Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

Where To

nucker wrote: »

In order for me to wake up earlier?

Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

Read my posts.

nucker

Where To wrote: »

Read my posts.

Hahaha, seriously though

jenniferalan

Do it old skool, set your alarm clock outside the bedroom door, you'll have to get up in order to turn it off. Then ull be tired earlier to sleep

Ihatecuddles-old

You turn the clock back about 3 hours and go to sleep...

KTRIC

jenniferalan wrote: »

Do it old skool, set your alarm clock outside the bedroom door, you'll have to get up in order to turn it off

I started this a couple of weeks ago, works very well. I have it sitting on the window ledge on the landing, so I have to get up to turn it off and then its right beside the toilet.

Handy that I live alone, can't imagine this working with housemates !! :P

Valentina

Just get up really early tomorrow. Trying to get through the day will nearly kill you but it'll be worth it. Maybe.

Where To

nucker wrote: »

Hahaha, seriously though

Read the creepy story thread, I haven't slept a wink since that started.

Jev/N

Pull an all-nighter, stay up all the next day and go to bed at a reasonably early hour.

Schism

Think of a time you want to get up at, let's say 8am. Set your alarm for 8am and go to bed whenever you feel like. When your alarm goes off in the morning get the **** out of bed.

Keep it up for at least two weeks and soon enough you'll be feeling sleepy at 11 or 12 and waking yourself up at 8.

nucker

jenniferalan wrote: »

Do it old skool, set your alarm clock outside the bedroom door, you'll have to get up in order to turn it off. Then ull be tired earlier to sleep

The problem with that, I'm living with flatmates, I don't think they would be pleased with that

nucker

Where To wrote: »

Read the creepy story thread, I haven't slept a wink since that started.

Dude, you're funny

Ihatecuddles-old

Go out and do your Christmas shopping in dundrum shopping centre at 2pm on Saturday.

If that doesn't tire you out I don't know what will!

Otherwise a nice walk, some sea air...and read a book before bed!

nucker

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

You turn the clock back about 3 hours and go to sleep...

Surely you mean forward:rolleyes:

NegativeCreep

Stay up all night. Tomorrow you'll be knackered but you can go to bed early and reset your body clock. Used to work for me every time the summer holidays were finished

dastardly00

Get yourself a sexy girlfriend. You'll be dying to go to bed early then to have some sexytime! :pac:

nucker

dastardly00 wrote: »

Get yourself a sexy girlfriend. You'll be dying to go to bed early then to have some sexytime! :pac:

Hahahahaha

FISMA

nucker wrote: »

In order for me to wake up earlier?

Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

Stay up all night.

Then you'll [hopefully] want to go to bed early the next day.

Get up early.

Repeat.

Do you exercise? If you do, you'll be surprised how fast your body will want to get up to get that endorphin fix.

nucker

FISMA wrote: »

Stay up all night.

Then you'll [hopefully] want to go to bed early the next day.

Get up early.

Repeat.

Do you exercise? If you do, you'll be surprised how fast your body will want to get up to get that endorphin fix.

Not enough, I've got a toe injury and it has been ongoing for the last year

alph

nucker wrote: »

Not enough, I've got a toe injury and it has been ongoing for the last year

Ah that old chestnut.

I've used similar excuses myself

Arpa

I've struggled with this so much. For some reason I can never get to sleep before4/5am and even then it's a struggle.

I usually do an all nighter, struggle through the day and then crash. It's horrible going, you feel almost dead during work or whatever but it works for me.

fkt

jenniferalan wrote: »

Do it old skool, set your alarm clock outside the bedroom door, you'll have to get up in order to turn it off. Then ull be tired earlier to sleep

I've actually never heard that one. I shall give it a go tonight/this morning

nucker

alph wrote: »

Ah that old chestnut.

I've used similar excuses myself

lol

9959

Give yourself as much time in the morning as you can, particularly for the first few days, by pre-prepairing, get dressed for work BEFORE you go to bed, butcher's apron, hat, sensible leather shoes, etc.
Always shave, shower and breakfast (The Full Irish), the night before, leaving yourself oodles of morning time to yawn and scratch your gonads.

Again for the first few weeks, don't bother with piffling alarm clocks, instead set the house alarm for the designated time, if you're too tired or uncomfortable sleeping in your work clothes to get up and turn it off, then I'm sure that one of your housemates will gladly oblige, after all you're now the breadwinner, remember, WHAT YOU SAY GOES!

Jobs are hard to come by these days, so well done you.
The best of luck to you.

meoklmrk91

When I get into a bad routine I simply do this over a couple of days. Stay awake for as long as I can. So last night I fell asleep around 7AM and woke around 5PM, today I will try and stay awake until 12PM and sleep as long as I can, will prob wake up around 7-8PM, then tomorrow I will again try to stay awake as long as I can, hopefully around 5PM and then wake up around 12AM. I will keep on doing this until get to be waking up when I want. I call it going around the clock and usually do it a few times a year as I have a broken body clock and always have.

I have tried doing the staying awake all day thing and it doesn't work for me, I am miserable all day until I crash and I then I will sleep for something like 16 hours and won't wake even if I set an alarm. I find my way better as it is gradual. Best of luck with the job OP.

Piper101

Get pregnant

Lenin Skynard

No food/caffeine or television/computer screens after 8pm and go to bed at ten even if you don't think you'll sleep. You should adapt to it after a few days. Another good one is to drink two pints of water in the hour before you go to bed, you should wake up bursting to p1ss 4-6 hours later.

Holsten

Stay awake a full day, go to sleep at 12, up at 9am.

Repeat.

nucker

nucker wrote: »

In order for me to wake up earlier? Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

Slowly. That would be my answer. It is my answer to many life changes too not just this one.

A few people have asked me how to do the amount of excercise and work and DIY and hobbies and more that I do every day. I get that "how do you fit so much in to your day" reaction from many people.

And "slowly" is always my answer. For example people who want to start excercising usually join something like a Gym, try to go for an hour or two each day, and less than a month later have stopped. Gyms love these people as you are usually tied into a contract whether you use it or not. I would LOVE to see the % income of Gyms broken down into "Current Users" and "Lapsed users". My feeling is the majority of their income comes from people not even using the facility.

What I recommend to such people instead is to start TODAY with their new lifestyle but do just 1 minute of excercise and stop. Even if they want to go on just stop. They of course feel ridiculous doing a single minute of excercise but I press them to do so.

Then the next day do 2. Then 3 the next day. And so on. 2 Months later you are doing 1 hour a day and it was an easy transition you hardly notice happening and you are still doing it where people who launched themselves into it have failed and given up.

I would recommend the same with your sleep patterns. Work out where you WANT to be on paper and where you are now. Then look at transitioning from here to there in tiny increments over a 2 or 3 month period. Go to bed and / or get up from bed earlier and later in 1, 2 or 3 minute increments over a 60 day period. The smaller the increments the better but base them on when you want to be where you want to be.

You will get to where you want to be in this fashion with hardly an idea how or why it ever seemed like a hurdle to you in the first place.

I cycle one hour every day and run one hour every day. People I know are always saying "I do not know how you do it I can barely get off the couch".

They were the same people who laughed and thought I was mad when they saw me getting the bike out one day and cycling 30 seconds down the road and 30 seconds back. Then 60 each way the next day. Laughing and saying "What was the point in that? It took you longer to get the bike out than you were actually on it".

Plazaman

nucker wrote: »

How do I get to bed early

In order for me to wake up earlier?

Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

What am I missing here OP? Do you have insomnia that you can't sleep when you go to bed or is it that you can't get to bed early as you are doing other things?

In order to get up at say 7am, you would need to be in bed by say11.30pm (6-8 hours sleep is sufficient for most people). The only things needed really is an alarm clock to wake up and a bit of forward prepartion to be ready to hop into the nest at 11.30pm (i.e. turn off the TV at 11pm, lock up, lights out, brush teeth, leave the trouser snake alone, into the PJ's, set the alarm and turn off lights).

allibastor

nucker wrote: »

In order for me to wake up earlier?

Been out of work for 2 and 1/2 years, but need to get back into the rhythm of getting up early...how do I do it?

Try and stay up as late as you can, it always works for me, i am out like a lgiht if i try and stay up.

EmptyTree

dastardly00 wrote: »

Get yourself a sexy girlfriend. You'll be dying to go to bed early then to have some sexytime! :pac:

Getting out of bed early could still be a problem. In fact, he might never get out of bed at all.....

PlainP

You need to get up early every day no matter what time you go to sleep at. Say for instance you don't get to sleep till 4 or 5am you still need to get up at 8am this way your going to be tired come 10 or 11 pm and will then get the sleep you need and be able to get up again at 8.