Want to Make Getting Out of Bed Easier?
Getting out of bed early in the morning can sometimes feel like a form of torture, but getting vertical is pretty much the whole battle.
Here are Four Tips to help you get up and at ’em a bit earlier:
- Make sure you’re getting enough sleep. Yeah, this one’s obvious, yet easier said than done. The foundation of waking up easier, starts with going to bed at a decent time. If you’re getting less than 6 hours of sleep, chances are it’ll be hard getting up with your first alarm, no matter what you try.
- Put your alarm on the other side of the room. When it’s far too easy to reach for your alarm without even lifting your head off the pillow, getting vertical is a lot less likely to happen without hitting that Snooze button. Set your alarm (or phone if you use that as your alarm) on the other side of the room, forcing your rear-end out of bed to turn it off. BOOM! You’re vertical before you even turned off the alarm. Now the challenge is staying out of bed.
- Try out the “gradual method.” Basically, you wake up 15 minutes earlier than you did the day before, and you keep going until your body gets used to waking up so early.
- Or try the “inverted snooze method.” It’s like snoozing in the sense that you don’t get on with your morning routine just yet, but you are out of bed. You use the 5-10 minutes where you would have snoozed for a little “me time.”
