You could get one of those 'run-away-alarm-clocks'
An alarm clock that runs away and hides to make sure there is no chance you won't wake up. After you hit the snooze button, Clocky rolls off your nightstand and wheels randomly around the bedroom, looking for a hiding place.
After one to 9 minutes your choice, Clock's alarm goes off again - and it won't turn off until you get out of bed and find him. Runs on 4 AAA batteries.
... or at the very least move your alarm clock across the room. I've always had to do that to force me to get up.
Miraphone 5050 - Warburton BJ/RF mpc YEP-641S(recently sold), DE mpc (102 rim; I-cup; I-9 shank) Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches: "Always play with a good tone, never louder than lovely, never softer than supported." - author unknown.
Let me begin by stating that I am just not a morning person. For my early years(high school & before), I had a lot of trouble waking up and getting up in the morning. When I left for college, I got the biggest, baddest alarm clock I could find. I came to hate, passionately, that very alarm clock. Or any other alarm clock, for that matter. However, it would wake me up in time to drag my butt out of bed and off to class.
Due to that extreme hatred of alarm clocks, plus the fact that I don't like to be disturbed by anything in the mornings, I have learn what has proven to be a very valuable technique. I have learned to wake up without an alarm clock. Well, not without any alarm clock. I have learned to be my own alarm clock. Each night when I go to bed, I set my "inner" alarm clock. I look to see what time it is when I crawl into bed. I then tell myself what time I need to get up the next morning. I then compute how long of a time period that is. Then I go to sleep. I usually wake up 10-20 minutes ahead of that time. This works out wonderfully because I really don't like to have to jump right out of bed. For me, this can spoil the entire day. You're probably wondering: don't I ever oversleep. The answer is that this is extremely rare. Usually, if I screw up, it is by waking up too early. This does not happen often, though.
For anyone that thinks this sounds like something they would be interested in developing, I will tell you how I stumbled on to it. Since I hate alarm clocks, I began attempting to wake up shortly before the alarm clock would go off. This way I could turn it off before it rang and made me even crankier than I usually am. After doing this for several weeks, it dawned on me that I was consistently waking up before the alarm would ring.
Obviously, this probably is of little to no value for James. One has to begin solving his problem with developing the discipline to get up when it is time to get up.
Nah, you're all telling him wrong. I had been having a ton of trouble waking up for my 8AM classes,but lately I figured out a really good way to be on time.
I set my alarm for 6 AM, then hit snooze a couple of times (my roommate loves that...even though he's the one who did crew last semester...but I digress). At about 6:30, I can roll out of bed and get dressed...go to the conservatory building, and do an hour warm up before my first class. Get a coffee, and go to class. The first day I did this, I noticed that my low notes in band were speaking a lot louder and more easily, and the whole horn was just playing way more freely.
"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
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Every time you wake up without having to hit the snooze button, reward yourself with a beer. You'll be able to get out of bed more easily in no time
"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
When I was in junior high, the principal sent a letter to my parents that if I didn't get to school on time, I would be facing major consequences. The letter went out on Friday. My dad had to leave for work at 6:30 am, so when he got up for work he'd get me out of bed. And if I wasn't out, he'd have some ice water to throw on my head. That was Friday that my parents received the note...
Monday, February 9, 1971... I felt something shaking my bed... I was on the top bunk... I thought my little brother was trying to get in the act... My bed was shaking so violently, I fell out of bed and onto the floor...
"OK, Dad!" I yelled. "I'm out of bed now."
I heard a sleepy voice down the hall, "I'm not up yet, son..."
That was the day of the violent Sylmar Earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale). 65 people were killed and thousands injured (I was one of them).
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You only have one chance to make a first impression. Don't blow it.
While I never had a problem getting up when I was a freshmen in college I had a roommate who could never make it to his 8 am class. So the resident director of our dorm asked me to help him. After trying the normal methods I resulted to the Bee Gee's greatest hits at 630 AM. After that quit working I moved on to Hank Williams Sr. Your cheating heart at full volume that early is something to wake the dead. YMMV
Set the alarm for the very latest time that you can just barely make it to class on time. Then when it goes off, you will be so frantic that you will be awake.
If your room is small and you can "inadvertently" shut it off during the night, put it outside your door. Get a LOUD one.
Go to bed at the same decent hour, EVERY night, without fail. Get up at the same time EVERY day, without fail. This includes weekends. Your body will adjust to this schedule in a surprisingly short amount of time, and your problem will be solved.
If some beautiful young lady suggested meeting for breakfast at 8:00 A.M....or someone offered to sell a 2009 Ford Mustang for $20 at 8:00, there would be no problem waking up.
If some beautiful young lady suggested meeting for breakfast at 8:00 A.M....or someone offered to sell a 2009 Ford Mustang for $20 at 8:00, there would be no problem waking up.
By the time you solve the puzzle, the instant gratification desire to go to sleep will have been overpowered by the desire to shut the damn thing off .
Brandon Quam
Sam Houston State University '11
Willson 2900 w/ BB1 mpc
Is this some TV star or something? Who is she? She is very cute!
She plays Dr. Hadley on the Fox TV show House. On the show, when Dr. House was hiring new staff members, he had 32 candidates, whom he referred by number rather than name (because he didn't care). Dr. Hadley was, of course....#13.
We all do precisely what we want to do.
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