How do you get up in the morning (if you don't want to)?

I’ve dealt with the same issue.

If you think you’re a night owl (and it sounds like you are), you’ll need to manage your daily schedule differently and deliberately, and there are a couple of different options ranging from getting up at the same time every day no matter what to planning your day with your changing level of alertness in mind to fitting your schedule to your particular rhythm of alertness. You could also aim for waking up in the shallow end of your sleep cycle. Each cycle lasts about ninety minutes and you’re easiest to wake at the beginning/end of each cycle. So if you’re sleeping 8 hours, try sleeping 7.5 instead to catch the light end of the cycle.

Two strategies for a regular “early” morning schedule are to: a) get up early and give yourself plenty of time to rouse, or b) wake up at the last possible minute and cram your morning routine.

Otherwise you might want to try not scheduling anything to brain intensive in the morning, but do schedule things like haircuts, errands, etc. Save the brain work for later in the day. Also, stay up late to finish a project. Don’t promise yourself that you’ll do it in the morning.

If you look at the language in your question, you’re assuming that “you like to live in bed,” because people are supposed to get up in the morning. What’s probably more accurate is that you’re no less active and productive late into the night (or at least you could be). You’re (we’re) in the minority, for sure, but it works much better to really recognize that it’s not laziness or lack of ambition.

I just remember that i don’t have a money tree and i’m not sponsored by daddy, that works very good

Can you schedule your busy life to fit in w. your diurnal rhythms? You say that you already have the flexibility to set your own time frame for managerial and consultancy jobs; how about taking your classes late in the day? In some ways, you sound as though you have solved all the practical problems, so cut yourself some slack.

I am an early-bird and had a terrible time in college, snoring over a book at library at 9:30PM.

I’m not an early bird too.

I have a toddler who is a very early bird :)

Create a little routine that you can look forward to even early in the morning.

I try to make it fun by needing fuel (coffee) by making sure have espresso coffee or going to the fridge and getting light doubleshots from Starbucks over ice.

Fellow insomniac/nite owl & sleep fan here.

It sounds like you don’t need to actually get up early, so I am wondering why you are concerned about it? The only reason my sleep patterns concern me is due to having to be at a contract gig a few days a week. Otherwise I would sleep the standard 8 hours – although from 4AM to Noon, which seems to be my natural cycle.

There’s some interesting information on Wikipedia regarding Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome which may or may not be applicable to your situation, but it sounds like exactly what I have. There are some suggested treatments on that page as well.

Get a cat. They’ll wake you up whether you want to or not. ;-)

get a morning routine you really like – wonderful coffee and breakfast foods that make you excited to get up and make ‘em

avoid caffeine after about noon (ideally, 11am) altogether. exercize regularly, keep a steady schedule, put a loud alarm away from the bed, get a kitten (even more potent wake-up powers than a cat.)

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