Waking up when alarm goes of.. does it really work?

[Dylan]

Another aspect to waking up early is to work on having a compelling reason to get up in the first place. Do you have a big dream for your life? There's a quote that goes something "Men aren't lazy; they just have impotent dreams." Maybe you just need to start down the scary road to your greatness. That should help you get your butt out of bed early.

[Lunatic]

Steve, thanks for the great advice. I tried getting up at 5 am for about 2 weeks...with NO success. Then when I re-read your two articles, I noticed the area about dropping caffeine. The first 4 days were miserable. I actually had a doctors appointment about 2 days after I dropped the caffeine. (for something else) When I mentioned this too him, he said it can take up to 14 days for caffeine withdrawl to go away. Anyway, by the fifth day I woke at 5 am. After that it was all down hill. I used to lay in bed for up to 3-4 hours at night....now it's just 15 minutes max, before falling asleep. I've also been doing some other personal development stuff which involves tracking my daily tasks. I've noticed that I get more done now between 5 am - 8 am than I would in an entire day before waking up early. Three days prior to the time change I set my alarm for 4 am and it made switching to this new time a heck of a lot easier.

[Susie]

Originally Posted by Tasaio

If this company was so unreasonable that they would fire you for being 5-10 minutes late...then would you really want a permanent position there? Their irrationality would translate into all sorts of ridiculous policies, eventually. It sounds like you're better off elsewhere.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Who needs to be stressed about showing up 5 or 10 minutes late?

That said, when I was temping I found that if I showed up to work EARLY (and casually made sure people knew I was there early), it was like I could do no wrong. It was like i was the goddess of temps, I even received employee of the month (big deal, but still) for the job where I was showing up early. It was a good feeling after having previously been the chronically late person!