Read a bookĮxperts are actually divided on whether reading a book before bed can be beneficial to sleep or not. Plus, if you’re playing games or doing anything that stimulates your brain before bed, you’ll still be wired from it and you’ll have trouble sleeping. The light from electronic screens tricks your brain into thinking it’s still daytime. This includes the TV, your phone, your laptop or tablet, the timer on the microwave oven … turn them all off. Turn off that tablet!įor at least an hour before you go to bed, try to avoid any access to electronic devices. It never fails to instantly boost your energy levels. I also go outside to feed the animals and will sometimes go for a run as well. As soon as I get up, I pull back the curtains and open the doors, letting the light and sunshine in. The sooner you get some exposure to sunlight, the better your brain will produce it for the following night. Get some sun ASAPĪpart from injecting your body with awesome vitamin D, sunlight sends a message to your brain to shut off melatonin production - that’s the hormone that makes you sleepy. And anything that helps you sleep better will also help you wake up better. It keeps your brain awake and alert, which is not what you need when you’re trying to sleep. It’s pretty hard to stay in bed with a vicious, hungry hamster jumping on your head.Īvoid drinking caffeine before you go to bed. Or a hamster … whatever animal you like, as long as it gets hungry early in the morning, and is exceptionally vocal about that hunger. There’s nothing like death metal to send you out of bed! 2. My husband - who is not great at getting out of bed - has his alarm tune set to “Ghost of Perdition” by progressive metal band Opeth. You could also try changing up your alarm tune to something designed to get you amped. If you want that annoying tinny version of “Fur Elise” to stop, then you’re going to have to get out of bed to make it happen. Put your alarm on the other side of the roomĪ simple hack to get you mobile is to place your alarm clock on the other side of the room. Here are my ten tips to get you out of bed and into work mode earlier: 1. Are you ready to do the unthinkable … and become a morning person?

If you are one of those normal people who only just discovered there was a 6 o’clock in the AM and have to wrap your alarm clock in padding to prevent it being damaged every time you throw it at the wall, then maybe it’s time you thought about a different approach. It probably helps that if I try to sleep in, the cat will pointedly jab his paw into my eyelids until I get up to feed him. As soon as my alarm goes, my brain switches out of sleep mode and into “get shit done” mode. I must confess that I am one of those weird, naturally bouncy, bright-eyed morning people. It has been said you can divide the population on earth into two types of people: those who leap out of bed at some ungodly hour of the morning, bright-of-eye and ready to face the day.

Morning sleepyhead