Has anyone successfully switched?
Lauri
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From being a night owl to being a morning person? I'm trying really hard, but every night, I end up staying up again, and then sleeping late in the morning. I was more of a morning person for most of my life- always went to bed a at a good time. It's just been the past few years that I've gone in the completely opposite direction. I feel like I would be healthier and just more organized and productive if I had better sleeping patterns, but changing over is turning out to be really difficult! Does anyone have any tips? I have no real excuses for staying up, it's just like I have no real motivation to get up from the couch and into the bed!
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for the least they could possibly do
hahaha well, I don't think I'm going to go quite THAT far!
Hey, you said you wanted advice!
Maybe see if you can borrow someone else's kid for a while. Or adopt one from Jon and Kate.
for the least they could possibly do
HAhahaha. I would never subject a child to living with me, even for a while! I don't think kids like wheat toast with olive oil and salt for dinner! (that's what I've been scraping up the past 3 weeks since I've been to the grocery store!0
That did it for me too...
I was always pushing it staying up LATE on work nights... Now I even get up at like 7:30-8:00 on weekends, regardless if he's awake or not.
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ack! no, I'm trying to become more healthy, not substitute watching TV for weed! (besides, I don't have the money to get into that habit
i used to stay up till the wee hours of the night in college.
then i got a real job and aged a bit. now i am up by 8 on the weekends.
You know, all of my friends have said the same thing, even the ones that DON'T have kids. Everyone has been saying that as they've gotten older, they wake up super early even when they don't have to. I have gone in the completely opposite direction- even when I was in college, sleeping late was like 9 or 10 AM. Now, I sleep til noon almost every weekend! And for most of my 20s, I worked out at 6 am and was always the first one in work. Now, I get to work at 10 am, after sleeping until 9 some days!
hahaha I have a real job (though I am flattered that you think I'm young enough to be in college!
It's not my favorite morning routine. :? :P
So, I guess to answer your question, I don't really switch, I just live with less sleep part of the year. :geek:
I'm a night owl, who is also a morning person. I'm up till 2 or 3 and up between 6 or 7, discussed this with my doc years ago and was told it was probably genetics since my dad was like that. Weird eh, I'm no less productive, I just get more done because IU sleep less, lol. I look at it this way eventually we get to take a long dirt nap.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
I had to switch for 2 months, going from normal work hours, and switched to night/graveyard. I wasnt successful, and I felt like I was going insane.
Finally someone who understands me!! I have the same problem, only I've had it all my life. In elementary school, they had to put me on Ritalin (sp?) so I could stay awake in school. In college, I failed a class called Walking Fitness (yes, all we had to do was show up and walk around) because I could never get there on time... and it was at 10:30. Of course, I took late classes and worked nights throughout most of college. Now I've had a "real" job for the past 7 years, and I still struggle every day to get there by 8 AM. I have 4 alarms, and if I have to be at an early meeting or something I also have people call to wake me up. When I do get to work on time, I'm much less productive because I'm tired all day. Today, though, I went in to make up some hours and worked from 1 to 11 PM and was extremely productive. So, while I totally agree that poor sleeping patterns make me less productive and organized and healthy (which drives me nuts), I actually think it's more about having sleepng patterns that match your life and the rest of society, ya know?
Anyway, sorry, I have no advice. Just empathy. Good luck!
I am happy when it is after 7am when I wake up on weekends
i accidentally used the sun as an object to tell time with my son and now hes up whenever the sun comes up. he says" the sun isnt sleeping anymore"
I think this is very true. I'm not very productive at work in the morning at all. I have to sort of warm up, and then I become much more productive later in the afternoon, which means I have to work really late at night, which means I get home late, eat late, and don't want to get to bed. But my problem is, I really never want to be to work later than 10, because I think that would just look bad. But I only like to work out when I first get up, so I have to get to bed early enough to wake up at about 6:30-hell even 7- so I can work out, shower, and get into work...but I can't even seem to do that!
Exactly! I'm convinced that if my boss didn't insist on me being at work at 8 AM every day, I would be a much better employee. I used to stroll in around 9 or 9:30 and would happily stick around getting stuff done until 9 PM. (This was also better because there were no interruptions after 5 PM.) I would get to work feeling refreshed, having eaten, possibly even having worked out, looking nice, etc.
But since he's decided that 8:00-8:15 AM is a crucial part of the day for me to be there, just in case he wants to talk to me before he gets busy with his day, I find myself dragging all day and watching the clock to go home at 5 PM. I set alarms starting at 6 AM but usually finally drag my ass out of bed, all stressed out, between 7 and 7:30. I don't have time to eat breakfast, wash my hair, figure out a nice outfit to wear, work out, etc. By the time I get home from work, I'm still tired, I usually have a headache, I don't feel like doing anything productive like cooking a good meal, cleaning the house, working out etc. I end up doing the bare minimun - like homework that's due the next day - and then either staying up being unproductive or going to bed super early because I have a headache. I'd like to take a nap and then get up and be productive, but I know if I did I'd be up all night and not be able to get up in the morning. This cycle basically just makes me feel unhealthy, unproductive, an like my life is out of control. I've tried and tried to conform to society's standards of normal sleeping patterns, but my body is just not wired that way.
ah scb, I totally feel for you! Maybe you should talk to you boss about all the stuff you just said. I think that people who make arbitrary rules like that just plain don't understand that biologically, psychologically, every person is different. I've been lucky enough that most of the jobs I've had don't really have a specific start time. The one i did have, I had to be in at 8:30. It was ridiculous. I just couldn't do it. People would be like, "but I have a baby and I do it." well yes, that's because, as people in this thread have said, you're getting up anyway if you have a baby! I'd try to work out in the morning, and in order to get any sort of decent work out, I'd have to be at the gym at 5:30am! My bosses just couldn't understand why that was important to me. I wanted to say, ok, if you want to be a fat lazy slob, that's your perogative, but don't bring me down with you! One of the reasons I want to get to bed earlier is that, while I don't think very well earlier in the day, that's when I like to do everything else. If I could get up in time to work out and do errands and read the paper before I got to work- I would be super woman!
Oh god, yes, and making dinner after working until 8pm or so- doesn't happen. I'm usually starving. but have I gone to the grocery store in weeks? most likely not, because I'm working so late!
I think I need a nice good vacation. Just a nice vacation by myself, at a spa with some outdoor things like hiking or biking or swimming...I'm planning for the summer of 2032.
I'm another one! Regularly stay up til around 3-4am and get up between around 11am the next day. Worked 2pm-10pm for 8 years and the hours were great!! Now I'm starting a 'regular' joband I know getting up early for work is going to kill me.
On the odd occasion I had to get up early in the past 8 years it would always make me physically ill around half way through the day.
So I'm dreading it!
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oh no! definitely start training before your job starts!
sorta.
i don't think i will ever entirely change my natural inclination, but now that i finally have a job, 5 days a week, with the same hours daily....it slowly has happened naturally. i even wake up on weekends around the same time, tho i have no problems rolling over and going back to sleep then
so absolutely, try and make yourself go to bed arpound the sme time nightly, and try to rise at the same hour each morning. i do vary it on weekends, but M-F, i am pretty good. i find i sleep soooo much better this way, feel well rested and healthy, so it's all good. good luck!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
hmmm.
Do I believe this worked? Yes. Do I really want to try it? Nooot quite sure yet.
I came close this morning, but no cigar. The heat in my house was triggered automatically because it got below freezing, and just like the past 2 years, it set off the smoke detector in my bedroom. You would think that would have gotten me up and to the gym, but not quite. My punishment will have to be going to the gym tonight after work with all the smelly people.