become a morning person.

I leave the country for good in eight days. I have done nothing. I have much to do. I need all day every day to do everything I need to. Eight early mornings in a row as of NOW!

I have changed the goal desccription and I think it’s important. Before I was saying I wanted to ‘wake up earlier’ when in fact I want to ‘become a morning person.’ I don’t want to wake up for the sake of waking up. What I want is to get up when I have to and:

a) not be a moaning cow to my boyfriend
b) not hit snooze over and over and over again
c) prepare myself for the day

I want to wake up and use the morning to get me on a good path for the day. I think the problem is in my mind rather than in the physical (although there is DEFINITELY an element of that). If I need to get up for an early flight though I can bounce out of bed with the first beeps of the alarm.

Must reprogram the brain…

Of all my goals, this is the one that is proving most challenging. The problem is that I can’t get my brain to override my instinct to go back to sleep. Despite the best of intentions the night before, there is no mental processing going on at all. When the alarm goes off all I can do is hit the snooze and roll over.

I think I need to enlist the help of my boyfriend. He just leaves me be now – probably because I’m so unfriendly in the mornings. I need to get him to remind me that I want to get up, turn the lights on, make noise and generally hassle me into getting up.

Today was the first day of this experiment and my brain forgot the plan. I actually got up later than I usually do.

I will write a note to myself and stick it to my alarm clock to remind me that going back to bed is not an option! I will also try to be asleep before 11.00pm.

This is the thing I want to do most but also the thing that will be the hardest.

I SUCK at getting out of bed in the morning. My brain does not function. Logic does not exist. Important things to do are immediately reprioritised second to sleep. I just can’t work out how to get my body to respond to the alarm and for my brain to kick in with rationality over the desire for my bed.

I want to get ready calmly and with time for breakfast, and to arrive at work early, alert and ready to go (and be able to engage in coherent conversations before 11am).

Any suggestions?