Tell me how you became a morning person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a baby who woke up at 5:30am for over a year. The key part is being in bed EARLY. You can't go to bed at 11pm and think that getting up at 5am will be easy. I go to bed by 9:30pm every single night. It's rare I stay up later. If I'm sick, or had a rough week, it's not unusual for me to be in bed at 8:45pm. My now toddler is in bed before 7pm, so that clearly is what makes this possible.

But no matter what, getting to bed early every night is the key.

Totally true. My crappy sleeping second kid made me a morning person. I do appreciate it now! But those very early wake ups made it so that we were in bed literally at 8 pm some nights because we were so exhausted and would be up all night and then for good at 4:30. Her sleeping got better but the habit of going to bed on the early side stuck around so I wake up earlier now, and easier. Op is right, getting up at 5 am and having time to piddle around without rushing is such a nice start to the day. I ended up going back to school for my Master's last year and that habit was so good to have because it meant I was fine with waking up very early to squeeze in schoolwork and whatnot.

So basically yes: go to bed at 9 if you can so that a 5 am wake up doesn't feel brutal.

[Anonymous]

I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

[Anonymous]

I'm the same, OP. If I could be a morning person my whole life would be different! But every morning I choose to sleep because it's too hard to get up!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 5 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 6 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

And OP: the trick truly is a consistent bedtime. I'm in bed at 10 every night, lights out by 11. That's the only way I can get up without hitting snooze a billion times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 5 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

No, but you could get yourself used to waking up early. Hell, even without an alarm.

I'm not a true morning person like my son - he has gotten up by 6 from the day he was born and is READY TO GO. But I can get up at that hour, function, and wake up without an alarm which is more than I could do before.

[Anonymous]

All of you posting about 9-10pm bedtimes and 6am wakeups make me realize I was trained into being a night person from when I was a kid. My parents taught at night, and so my brother and I had to hang out at the Y where my mom worked until she was done at 10pm every M-Th night. I've been oversleeping alarms for my entire life. I honestly feel like my brain does not turn on to normal functions until at least 10am, especially if I've dragged myself out of bed while it's still dark out. I'm chronically late and often bleary-eyed, but won't bat an eye at staying late to finish up work. I actually find my best work is done from about 3pm-10pm. Sadly, my office hours are 8:30-4:30, strict.

Now with my maternity leave nearly over, I'm trying to get back into a work wakeup routine around the baby's needs and I'm finding that I absolutely can not wake up. Can. Not. UGH. And the baby is a night owl, too. Double UGH.

To those of you who say "just got to bed earlier and you'll wake up earlier," I can attest – for some people, it does not work.

[Anonymous]

I still don't identify as a morning person because I hate getting up early and prefer to do things like gym, laundry, grocery shopping later at night but what caused me to become more morning oriented was switching to a job that required earlier days (had to be up at 6), not drinking at night (not even a small glass of wine - as someone who enjoys drinking I got used to this shockingly quickly) and never sleeping in. I don't wake up at 6 on the weekends, but am up by 7:30 at the latest. I also try to be in bed by 10:30 and lights out at 11. Doesn't always work, because it is much more my nature to stay up until 2 or so, but I'm wrecked if I stay up that late for more than a night or two.

[Anonymous]

Cycling classes at 5:30 am! I love it and feel awesome all day.

I am NOT a morning person, but this has changed everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 5 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

No, but you could get yourself used to waking up early. Hell, even without an alarm.

I'm not a true morning person like my son - he has gotten up by 6 from the day he was born and is READY TO GO. But I can get up at that hour, function, and wake up without an alarm which is more than I could do before.

Some current research suggests whether you are a morning person or not is genetic, not something you choose:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/do-you-have-the-genetic-profile-of-a-morning-person/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 5 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

No, but you could get yourself used to waking up early. Hell, even without an alarm.

I'm not a true morning person like my son - he has gotten up by 6 from the day he was born and is READY TO GO. But I can get up at that hour, function, and wake up without an alarm which is more than I could do before.

Some current research suggests whether you are a morning person or not is genetic, not something you choose:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/do-you-have-the-genetic-profile-of-a-morning-person/

I believe it ... Except no one in my family is a morning person, except him!

[Anonymous]

Live-in nanny. Kids either need to be up at a certain time, or if they get to sleep in 15 minutes, they end up coming and bouncing on me. Either way, I'm up before it's light out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of you posting about 9-10pm bedtimes and 6am wakeups make me realize I was trained into being a night person from when I was a kid. My parents taught at night, and so my brother and I had to hang out at the Y where my mom worked until she was done at 10pm every M-Th night. I've been oversleeping alarms for my entire life. I honestly feel like my brain does not turn on to normal functions until at least 10am, especially if I've dragged myself out of bed while it's still dark out. I'm chronically late and often bleary-eyed, but won't bat an eye at staying late to finish up work. I actually find my best work is done from about 3pm-10pm. Sadly, my office hours are 8:30-4:30, strict.

Now with my maternity leave nearly over, I'm trying to get back into a work wakeup routine around the baby's needs and I'm finding that I absolutely can not wake up. Can. Not. UGH. And the baby is a night owl, too. Double UGH.

To those of you who say "just got to bed earlier and you'll wake up earlier," I can attest – for some people, it does not work.

Agreed. I was trained to be a morning person but I'm just not. No matter how hard I try, I don't function before 9. When I was single, I remted apartments close to work so I could wake up at 8 and be at work by 9. Now, with two kids, I'm struggling in the mornings. I am trying but my natural rhythm is a night person.

[Anonymous]

The people I know who are morning people are not that way by choice. Sometimes it's a health problem, a bowel problem. They say they need extra time early in the morning. I wouldn't want to be them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad you posted this. My friend insists that she will never be a morning person, it's just her nature.

It's pretty rude of you to question something like this that another adult says about themselves. I have to be up at 5 every morning for work and hate it with every fibre of my being. I'm always up on time, but I'll never be a morning person.

No, but you could get yourself used to waking up early. Hell, even without an alarm.

I'm not a true morning person like my son - he has gotten up by 6 from the day he was born and is READY TO GO. But I can get up at that hour, function, and wake up without an alarm which is more than I could do before.

so can I, not the same as being a "morning person"