How to stop oversleeping
How I did it: I have sporadic episodes of over sleeping. One way I have learned to deal is to shift my schedule so that my natural wake up time is earlier. Where as I used to set my alarm at 5 to get to work at 6:30, I now set it at 2 (Yeah, its sort of odd). That way, its more like I am going to work around lunch time than going to work imediately after I wake up.
You get some time in the morning to take care of some of the stuff you would normally do at night before you went to bed, and generally with more energy than you would have if you were doing them immediately prior to knocking out. Then, I come home around 5pm, and if I do not have anything to do, I end up ready to knock out 8pm. If I do have something that cant wait, i can stay up.. generally, as long as I'd like, and not have to worry about oversleeping past about 5am.
Lessons & tips: Its easy to brush off going to bed earlier when you have stuff to do at night. Find the things that do not need to be handled at night, and do them at other times durring the day.
