[Ryre]

I've been using Roosh's tip on how to program yourself to get right up and start your day when you alarm goes off, and I'm impressed with how well it works. Briefly, the idea is to visualize yourself doing it for a minute or two the night before. I've been using it for the last week or so, and it works...just a quick visualization creates a funny compulsion in the morning where 'something tells me' I'd better get up right away instead of dozing. And it doesn't create any difficulty sleeping, like how knowing you have to get up early sometimes can.

Roosh's article here: http://www.returnofkings.com/289/how-to-...ing-snooze

[Ovid]

I go for getting 8 1/2 hours a night. If you get enough sleep, you don't feel the need to groan and fumble for the snooze button a half-dozen times. Of course, this is hard if you're out till 4am, but I try not to do that on days where I have to do anything the next day.

[MikeinMKE]

(01-06-2013 03:19 PM)Ovid Wrote:  

I go for getting 8 1/2 hours a night. If you get enough sleep, you don't feel the need to groan and fumble for the snooze button a half-dozen times. Of course, this is hard if you're out till 4am, but I try not to do that on days where I have to do anything the next day.

I do. I can get 10 hours of sleep but if it's before 9AM I selfishly want more. I thank the OP for posting this - I had not read this from Roosh before and will definitely try it out.

[MikeinMKE]

"I already mentally prepared for the scenario so it plays out just like how I rehearsed: I sit up in bed and turn off the alarm. (Important tip: never turn off the alarm while you are laying down!) Then I sit upright in bed until I gain enough power to stand up. Try it!"

awesome stuff by Roosh. Can't wait to try tomorrow AM.

[Rex]

Holy crap, this Jedi mindtrick actually works! The force is strong with Roosh...

[qazwsx]

The training trick also works very fine:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04...-goes-off/

I read this 2 years ago and since then it made me gain tons of minutes in the mornings. Like any workout, do several reps. In 1 or 2 days it will become completely automatic on your body.

[Captain Ahab]

You know your are on your way when you wake up before the alarm clock goes off every morning.

[MikeinMKE]

This worked well for me this AM. Had to fight a tad bit but ultimately I got up on 1st crack - was out of bed in 2 minutes.

[iknowexactly]

One of the biggest things I love about not working for someone else is NO ALARM CLOCKS unless I have a flight or appointment. I do waste too much time though; I want to start more organized goal setting.

[Beyond Borders]

I used to do this as well and, while it sounds simple, it really does work wonders - thanks for the reminder. I've been needing to get back on track with my sleep schedule and this post had be bouncing right out of bed this morning.

[Bill]

It could be that visualization skills are one of the most important things to solve problems. I quit many times as it became boring and I lost patience but I think it´s wrong to neglect it. It´s probably more important than going to the gym.

Here this guy gives rather good tips:

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WHY WE DON’T VISUALIZE

I’ve read about this stuff, I’ve tried this stuff, a million times. Probably so have you. But let me ask you something–do you use planned, specific visualization regularly? If not, why not?

As I’ve gone through my own experience with trying to visualize regularly, but eventually letting it fall to the wayside, and as I’ve talked to others who have tried and failed at keeping a regular schedule going with it too, I’ve found that the number one reason why visualization is so hard to keep doing is because it’s SO DAMN BORING.

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So I started experimenting around with it myself. And I eventually found some key things that have helped turn the power of visualization into a regular part of my training every single day for the past 6 months.

And I want to share this with you so that you can cut through all the fluff out there and actually start putting visualization into practice for yourself.

GETTING STARTED WITH VISUALIZATION

The first thing that I decided was that I needed to develop my ability to “see” things in my mind. Easy things. I figured that our brain works like a muscle and that learning to be good at visualizing would take time.

When we give up on visualization because the mental pictures get harder and harder to create and focus on it’s often not because we suck at creating mental images and will always suck at it. No. It just means that we haven’t developed that part of our brain yet. It’d be like giving up on working out because you couldn’t bench press a 300 lb bar.

So instead, I started light. And I recommend you do the same.

I started with 10-15 mins every day (now I go for 20-25 mins at a time). I would lay down, close my eyes, and try to calm my mind by taking 10 long, deep breathes, concentrating on the feeling of the air going in and out of my lungs (this wasn’t easy and I still find my mind wandering during it. So don’t worry. Just try to calm your mind down as much as you can).

Next, I would pick something very easy to visualize. For instance, blowing up a bright colored balloon. Or standing in a room, turning the lights brighter and dimmer. Or eating a bite of lemon meringue pie one bite at a time (it’s surprising how realistic you can make it). Or getting a back massage. Or walking on the beach and jumping into the ocean (imagining the sounds, the smell of the air, anything that you would notice if you were really there).

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1. There is no room for impatience. Just like warming up your muscles before a workout, there are no shortcuts. I HAD to take the time to focus my mind and get it on a creative, visual plane before I could seriously get into a good visualization session.

No matter how long you’ve been going to the gym your muscles will always require a warm-up before being ready to work. From my experience so far the same holds true for visualization.

2. Spend time feeling things in your body. A lot of times I would visualize myself performing a skill as if I were watching myself on a movie screen. However, I noticed that I felt like I got more out of it when I tried to actually picture how doing the skill felt instead of just looked. I tried to recreate the feeling inside my body.

Warming up by visualizing getting a back massage has become one of my favorite ways of priming myself to be able to “feel” what I’m visualizing rather than just “seeing” it. I’d recommend giving it a try.

http://austinimpactjkd.com/2012/10/using...-a-how-to/

[Phoenix]

This tip is a good find. Getting up on a morning is brutally difficult for me unless there is a compelling (read: I will be punished otherwise) reason.

Will try Roosh's tip.

[Rawmeo]

If you sleep enough, you won't need to fight with the alarm.

A night of sleep is minimum 8 hours for me. When the girlfriend tells me at midnight, "we need to wake up at 6 because we have things to do", I tell her, next time just tell me sooner. I'm not waking up before 8.

This is my trick to be productive, but I guess everyone has their own way of doing that.

[The Beast1]

Ha! I did this on my own when I started getting up earlier to go to the gym. Very useful advice.

[Frank Rook]

I've been using this method for a number of years to get up in the morning during outdoor camps & expeditions. It works, even in some pretty harsh environments. Appreciating that this tip was shared here.

[wroclove]

I have found that the times that I was more motivated to go lift weights and that I was in my best shape was when I was spending the whole day thinking about lifting and visualizing myself squatting, deadlifting or doing weighted pull-ups.

It felt just as good as lifting the weights itself and I would never get bored at the gym even with 2-3 hour sessions 4-5 times a week. Now I've lost weight and find it a lot harder to get motivated to lift.

Will try this visualization exercise tonight and report back

[MdWanderer]

Another helpful tip is placing your alarm clock a few feet away from your bed so you will be forced to get out of your bed to turn it off. I place mine near my television so I will have to physically get out of the bed to turn it off. I then proceed to turn on the lights when I'm up for an extra morning jolt.

[VincentVinturi]

I really find environment to have a huge influence on my sleep/wake cycle.

When I'm in dark and stimulating Bangkok, I go to bed at 3am every night and wake up around 11am or noon, not feeling particularly refreshed. And almost no amount of willpower can get me back into a normal rhythm.

But when I'm in sunny, idyllic Phuket, I go to bed at 1am and wake up at 9:45 on the dot, feeling ready to grab the world by the horns. And it's effortless.

[Chaos]

I've been doing this for a while without even knowing about that article.
Visualizing is important. I've done it with my morning routine during the last two weeks.

Alarm goes off at 04:40am.
Straight out of bed, put coffee to brew, morning piss, splash my face with cold water, getting dressed.

At 04:50 I'm off driving to the gym.

Back home at 06:20-06:30 and having breakfast and coffee.
At 07:15 I'm ready to start dealing with all the shit that need to be done for the day.


Damn, I love to get the workout done straight from the morning.

[Duke Castile]

I just got the light box that lizard was talking about.

I guess we will see how that goes. I hate waking up.

The visualization tip is great, just did it last night and woke up at 6:30am

[Chaos]

I'm curious about that box aswell. Currenty I have no problems of waking up since I get tired early in the evening goes to bed around 8-9pm.

But damn it's dark here these days. Pitch black until 8:30am and at 4:30 it's pitchblack again.
No sun at all, it just gets grey.

It's easy to start thinking about El Nido...

[Nightwish]

I hate alarm clocks. I'm a writer and researcher so i got to bed at 1-2am and get up at 10am or 11am...i wake on my own. I wake, shower, check emails then eat. But I also nap at times in the late afternoon. I'm ADD/ADHD so my brain needs a break...

[Vamonos Pest]

[Nascimento]

I tried this and I woke up several times throughout the night wondering what time it was. I'm usually a solid sleeper.

[Truth Seeker]

Have struggled waking up recently so I used this tip this morning, worked really well