I’ve been reading many articles about being an early riser lately. Yesterday was my first time following the advice! What I’m going to do from now on is to sleep as soon as I feel sleepy (could be 10 pm or 2am!) and get up at a certain time no matter when I slept; for me it’s 5:30 am.

The hardest part is getting up in the morning. Here is how it usually goes:

I go to bed at 11pm and want to wake up at 6am, so I set two alarm clocks and my cellphone’s alarm! At 6am the first alarm goes off and I don’t even wake up, it turns off after couple of minutes by itself. The second alarm goes off and wakes me up but I hit that snooze button as soon as I can move my hand! It’s already 6:10 and I’m still sleeping. Next is my cellphone, it goes off at 6:12 and I reach under my pillow and grab it to see what time it is, well, It’s getting kind of late. I tell myself that I better get up. While trying to move my legs and remove the cover I think that maybe five more minute won’t kill me! It’s 6:30! After half an hour that I’ve been struggling to get out of bed I finally get up and rush to get ready and go to work!

That’s almost my every day. One good thing that I did was going to bed before midnight which obviously does not solve the problem. What will work is getting up when I wake up for the first time. There shouldn’t be three alarms there, one should work fine and get me out of bed. The best thing to do is not to think about if I still have time or not and just get up! I think after a while doing this my body will get used to it and do it automatically, and maybe there would be no need for an alarm.

My second day went well too. I got up at 5:30 at I planned and one alarm was enough. One thing that has been working for me is to have my alarm far from my reach. That way I have to get up and shut it off, by the time I reach my alarm I’m already up.

I will update you on how the process is going.

Here are some benefits of waking up early (Zen Habits)

Also if you have any good tips on being an early riser please add your comments :)