Don’t Sleep in! Use Daylight Saving Time to Help Start an Early Wake up Routine
If you are unfortunate enough to live a certain distance from the equator, for reasons of dubiousness value the government will mess with your sleep cycles twice a year by adjusting the clocks and hour forward or backward.
Next week is the Autumn ‘fall back’ half of the year. This Sunday we will wake up with an extra hour of time. Who doesn’t open their sleepy eyes on that morning, look at the clock, remember you have an extra hour and drift back into the arms of Morpheus?
I say fight Morpheus, take the radical approach: use daylight saving time to help you get up early.
If you’ve been trying to get up early, and found yourself constantly failing, now is your chance. Normally it’s difficult to stick to a schedule of early rising because of the terrible, terrible physical feeling that first morning. But when the clocks move, if you wake up at the same time you normally do, you’ll steel an hour of the day for yourself.
So, if you’ve been trying to wake earlier, I suggest you use this week as a trial run of getting up an hour earlier than you normally do. Use that time for whatever you want, but give it a go. Have a seven-day, pain-free trial of the early waking life.
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