How to Wake Up Early - And Not be Miserable

How to wake up early and not be tired: Learn how to make waking up early as painless as possible. We often have to wake up early at ungodly hours for work, school, or other responsibilities. In this video, I show you the lessons I learned from enduring challenging surgery rotations in medical school where I was waking up at 3:30AM on a regular basis. Along the way I learned to not only make it painless, but I also grew to like waking up early. That's right, I grew to actually enjoy waking up early and I became a morning person. I’ll share with you the tips and tricks I learned on how to wake up early, sleep better, and be more productive in the process. Getting out of bed early in the morning doesn't have to be a chore.

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In this video I go over:
1. Basics of Sleep Hygiene
2. Consistency with Bed Time and Wake Up Time
3. Pre-bedtime Routine
4. Limiting Screen Use Near Bedtime
5. The Importance of an Alarm System that Works for You
6. Other Tips
7. Unexpected Benefits of Waking Up Early

Sleeping early and waking up early does not have to be a painful process. Use the tips here and hopefully you can grow to like it too. You may even grow to consider yourself a morning person like I do now. Waking up early allows you to get more done in a day (increases productivity), gives you more energy (when done correctly), and can help you feel more accomplished as you build momentum from an early start. Try waking up early for a few weeks and let us know how it works for you!

[BTSArmy-otdw]

Do you ever just wake up and go "NOPE" ... and roll over and go back to sleep?

[astrowarlorde]

1. Bed/wake time consistency
2. Pre-bed time routine (shower, limit screen use 30 minutes before bedtime.
3. Find an alarm system that works for you (sleep cycle alarm clocks, spin cycle, wake up lights)
4. Room should be pitch black
5. Avoid naps as possible or keep them short (15 min)
6. Avoid stimulants before bed
7. Bed is for sleep only
8. Place the alarm on the other side of the room

[AJCocoaWZW]

"15-20 mins naps"
*me* : naps for 2 hours

[morganbach]

"Early to rise and early to bed, makes man healthy, but socially dead"

-Yakko Warner

[EngelGirl]

i‘ve watched so many of these, i‘ve become quite the expert about sleep i just fail to apply my knowledge lol

[xKarma_]

Bed should be for sleep only or you will associate it with wake.
*while laying in bed*

[xdblack]

The best sleep I ever had in my entire life was when I was moving to a new house. There was just so much work throughout the entire day, I could fall asleep within 5 minutes and the moment I woke up I was energized. It was surreal.

[slimmofication]

Wake 7:00 Closed my eyes for 1 minute open my eyes 7:55 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[kameron]

Deadass, it doesn't matter how much sleep I get, I'm always tired....

[souravzzz]

A doctor with good handwriting? Impossible!

[Chloe-mjrx]

Ok, here's one tip of mine that has helped me.
When you wake up you have to have something that you're looking forward to, if it's making hot chocolate, coffee, a nice breakfast or even taking a shower. Hope this helped!

[rjshalash]

who else is watching this in bed the day before school? 😩

[MortemusII]

Meanwhile, I'm watching this in bed at 4AM after having the shittest night sleep of my life. I'm gunna be so fucking wrecked.

[TheUnleashedZombie]

I'm not a med school student but this sounds extremely helpful for me despite that. Thanks for the tips!

[alexandriadukes]

As a farmer (who commutes for work), I appreciate this. My mornings start at 3. His advice is solid. I'd only suggest, to those of you who have physical labor jobs, adding a series of stretches to his advice for nightly routines.

[RandomTermite]

"Limit screen use"

*Watching while laying in bed*

[WTDProductions]

*watches video while drinking coke at **3:21** in the morning*

[CarlosGarcia-ijyg]

It helps if you actually WANT to get up in the morning!

[Bigbadred]

1. Workout
2. Don’t eat too much sugars after 8
3. Don’t eat 2 hours before sleeptime
4. Drink lots of water
5. Eat moderately and good amounts of protein and carbs.
6. Sleep early

[amayalei]

Me: Trying to wake up early
Also Me: *Watching this at 2 in the Morning*