Waking Up Faster Tips

If most of you are like me, then there have been occasions in your life when sleep is your best friend.

I don’t always sleep in, but occasionally it just feels good to not wake up in the morning. What I realize after I get up, however, is that I have just wasted a lot of time and I am now behind on all of my work. This is the reason why OnlineClock.net believes that Snooze Clocks Are Evil.

There are a few tips that I have found useful for those of us who enjoy the dream world a little too much. I would like to share Seven Tips For Waking Up Faster with you that have helped me to get an early start on the day.

1. Go to Bed Earlier
We all need sleep, whether it is at night or in the morning. The best thing you can do for your body is to get eight hours of sleep. Instead of staying up until midnight, try going to bed at 10:30. My guess is that the extra hour and a half that you spend awake at night is spent watching TV or playing video games or something similarly unproductive, anyway. Time spent in the morning is generally spent more productively.

2. Jump Out of Bed Quickly
It is easy for us to rationalize and say “Just 10 more minutes…then I’ll get up”. But this is a habit that needs to be nipped in the bud. If you jump out of bed the first time your alarm goes off, no matter how tired you are, your body will eventually learn that 6:00 is “wake-up time”, not 6:15 or 6:30. So, before you even turn your alarm off, jump out of bed. In this way you’ll train your body that it needs to get up and at ‘em as sound as that alarm strikes the first time. And, after awhile, there will be much less temptation to hit your snooze button.

3. Have Something Planned for the Morning
Before you go to bed, write yourself a note about something you HAVE to do when you wake up. Whether it be a morning run, reading the paper, finishing homework, or any other activity, write a note and leave it right next to your alarm clock. Before you fall asleep, get your mind excited about doing whatever activity you have planned, and then remember this feeling of excitement in the morning. This will motivate you to want to get up more quickly.

4. Find a Friend to Help
Ask your spouse or another friend for help waking up in the morning. If he or she struggles with the same problem, you can keep tabs on each other. This especially works with spouses who can smack you upside the head with a pillow early in the morning (yes, there is no better personal trainer than a wife with a loaded pillow!). If you don’t share a bed with a partner or spouse, then ask a friend to call you the minute their alarm clock goes off to check to see if you’re awake. You can even plan your early morning activities with each other in order to do a better job of checking to see that both of you have gotten up quickly.

5. Eat Healthy Before Bed Time
One of the dumbest things you can do before bed is chow down an entire bowl of popcorn and a couple scoops of ice cream. The sugars that you get from these foods will wake your body up and not get it into proper sleeping form. This especially includes any kind of caffeinated beverage or coffee. Your mind may actually fall asleep, but your body will be working overtime. Late night snacks are hard to resist, so eat an apple or some vegetables instead. Your body will return your kindness in the morning by helping you to wake up earlier.

6. Practice!
This one may sound silly, but it works, trust me! Practicing waking up is the step that has really helped me to get up earlier. In the middle of the afternoon, go lay down as if you are asleep. Before laying down, set your alarm clock to go off in the next 3-5 minutes. Now, as you lay down, make sure that you get yourself as comfortable as possible. Imagine that you are dreaming by trying to think of something completely unrelated to sleep. As soon as the alarm goes off jump out of bed and take a deep breath, then turn off the alarm. Do this 2 or 3 times a day for a week or so. Your body will actually get in the habit of jumping out of bed quickly, taking a deep breath, and turning off the alarm. I know, it sounds incredibly silly…but it works!

7. Use OnlineClock.net

Finally, we have a tip for waking up quickly that involves our online alarm clocks.

We’ve found that our alarm sound can be an extremely effective motivator when it comes to getting people out of bed quickly. The reason why is that our alarm sound is, well…how should we put this – effectively annoying. That’s right. We’ve received reports from young and old alike praising our peculiar alarm clock sound precisely because it is darn annoying…annoying enough to wake up many light sleepers when played even at relatively low volume levels. It might be interesting for some of you Online Clock fans to note that, several years ago, we did indeed try to change our patented alarm sound to something a little easier on the ears. The feedback we got was resounding: all of the people who wrote us told us they wanted us to switch back to our original alarm sound, which you can still find everywhere on OnlineClock.net today.

So how can you use Online Clock’s alarm sound to help you get out of bed quickly?

Just follow these simply steps:

1. Set your alarm on a laptop or desktop computer which is at least several feet away from your bed. This way you’ll be forced to get up, out of bed, in order to turn off our alarm when the time comes.
2. When setting an alarm on our online alarm clock, turn the volume all the way up on your laptop or desktop computer.
3. For the truly comatose sleepers among you: consider hooking up your computer or laptop’s sound cards to some more powerful external speakers; or hook up our alarm clock to your home stereo using an amplifier!

We hope that these simple tips will help many of you get out of bed more quickly, so that you can get a good, productive start each day.

And remember: avoid snooze clocks like the plague!

In the long run, perhaps the biggest thing that you can do to become an early-riser is to develop the willpower to say “no” to your bed.

Once you get your body in the habit of waking up early, everything becomes much simpler later on.

Online Clock wishes you all good luck getting out of bed quickly – rise and shine!

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