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11-22-2008, 09:03 AM
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 |  30 Day Challenge - Wake up at 7
I need to improve my sleeping pattern. I wake up sometime between 7am-11am. I want to wake up earlier so I can get more things done. I will post the wake up time results in this thread. (November 22-December 21) -Franciz |
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11-22-2008, 12:22 PM
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I got up at seven this morning. I went straight down to our shop and cleaned the window. I made some hand cream in my lab then sorted out my weekly washing before sitting down to bacon and eggs for breakfast with my wife at 8.30 am. I was already quite pleased with what I had done even before I realised that I could post it here as an inspiration to others to get up early. (Incidentally I usually get up at six but I allow myself a lay in of an hour on Saturdays and get up whenever I feel like it on Sundays.) |
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11-26-2008, 09:20 AM
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November 25, 2008 Woke up at 7:36. Heavy school work and with exams coming up are making this challenge a little tougher. By Thursday, I'll be back on track with my studying so I should be getting more sleeping time and expect better results. -Franciz |
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11-28-2008, 06:40 AM
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Hi Franciz, If you want to wake up early, you need to sleep early, that is all that there is to it. If you wake up at 7 and don't feel good the whole day, what is the use of getting up early? Try and make sure you are getting at least 6-7 hours of sleep in the night. Work backwards from the time you want to get up and go to sleep at the right time. Check out this site: 21 Stress-Stopper Formulas For a Healthy and Happy Life |
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11-28-2008, 02:12 PM
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November 28, 2008 Woke up at 7, sweet! To stressless, I definitely agree to what you are saying. I'm getting more sleep now since I've finished the things that I have to do in school. I'll be sure to check out the website that you suggested, thanks a bunch. -Franciz |
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11-30-2008, 02:38 PM
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Hey Franciz, Please excuse me for being one of those people who pressure school boards for later high school start times. Incidentally, I believe that until reaching the age of twenty-one, college students should do their best to match their schedule with what's actually happening in their brain. There are two "clock" systems in the brain-the circadian, which makes it easier to go to sleep and wake up at around the same time every day; and the melatonin clock. The melatonin clock responds to light. Unfortunately, during adolescence it also has a reaction time delayed by something between one and two hours (rough estimate). Technically, this means that until some time around senior year of college, you should be going to sleep later and waking up later. This is again a rough estimate, but nine hours of sleep starting around 10:30 or 11 is a great ideal to strive for. Seven AM is at least 30 minutes too early to be waking up if you want to be performing optimally in school. (That's not to forget life in general. Studies have shown Don't use this as an excuse. Whatever your schedule is now, do your best to get all the studying you can done. Here's another warning-sleep is an essential part of the learning process. If you're going to study, try to do so just before going to sleep, because most things done before sleeping are remembered. On the other hand, I'm in high school and wake up at 5:56 every morning. (Insert expletive directed at local school board here.) In 1997 the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Public School District was the first in the nation to change to later start times for its seven high schools, changing school-day hours from 7:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. to 8:40 a.m. - 3:20 p.m. It is also the only school district in which there has been a longitudinal study of the effects of the hours change (three years before the start-time change and three years following). Findings indicated that the students benefited from the change with improved attendance and enrollment rates, less sleeping in class, less student-reported depression, and improved behavior in the halls. Students in Minneapolis got five more hours of sleep per week than their peers in schools with early start times. The change proved beneficial for learners at risk of dropping out of school because of missing too many first- and second-period classes, thus being short of graduation credits. None of the studies indicated dramatic improvement. In 1999 North Clackamas School District in Oregon changed its high school hours from 7:30 a.m. - 2:20 p.m. to 8:45 a.m. - 3:20 p.m. after high school principals had been recommending a later start for a decade and the district had studied the proposed change for a year. The issue was that high school students simply were not awake for early morning classes because they needed more sleep. To offset the later high school start time, the elementary schools started earlier. The transportation issue was settled by interchanging the high school bus route times and the elementary school bus route times. There was concern that the younger children would have to wait for the bus in the dark during the winter, but no problems occurred. The only real problem that occurred was that, in order to meet long-distance athletic competition schedules, sometimes students would have to leave classes early. The benefits, however, were improved attendance and an improved GPA in the first period classes for high school students. The result is that everyone likes the change--the students, the parents and the community--and the district has kept those hours. (Research provided by a student at my high school, which I will not name for the sake of their anonymity.) |
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11-30-2008, 08:20 PM
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12-05-2008, 02:39 PM
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Is it getting easier for you? You said you felt like a zombie for the first few days, but haven't really mentioned it since. Are you pretty much a morning person now? Has it gotten pretty easy to get up early? I ask because I'm doing my own 30 day trial of getting up at 6 AM (whereas before I'd get up around noon), and right now I'm on day 5. It's getting easier, but it's still not what I'd call "easy". I'm just curious about your progress on how easy it's getting (or not) to get up early every day and stay awake/energetic all day. |
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12-08-2008, 07:05 PM
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December 8, 2008 Damn, Woke up at 10:30 today. My average sleeping time is around 1 am'ish and I try to wake up at 6:55. Thats too little sleep for me so I'll change time when I go to sleep. Tonigh, I'll try to finish as much studying as I can before 10, after that it gets done tomorrow. -Franciz |
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