How To Get Out of Bed More Easily | Wake Up Early with ENERGY: transcript
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In this video, the host of Better Ideas explains five practical tips for getting out of bed more easily and becoming a morning person. He first stresses that you need a personal reason for waking up early, sharing that his own reason was freeing up evenings for friends and family instead of always having work to finish. The tips are: stop using your phone as an alarm clock and move your charger away from the bed, since phone use before sleep raises cortisol and hurts sleep quality; wake up at the same time every morning, including weekends, to build a consistent internal clock; never set multiple alarms, because that gives you subconscious permission to sleep in; have a fixed plan or procedure for when the alarm goes off, such as walking to the kitchen to start coffee; and prepare the night before by laying out clothes, a towel, coffee and a to-do list. He says a fixed wake-up time takes about one to two weeks to get used to.
Key points
- Find your reason why you want to wake up early before trying any tactics.
- Don't use your phone as an alarm; move the charger away from your nightstand and buy a dedicated alarm clock.
- Phone use before bed releases cortisol and reduces sleep quality, even if you fall asleep fine.
- Wake up at the same time every morning, including weekends, to build consistent sleep rhythms.
- Never set multiple alarms, because they give you subconscious permission to sleep past the first one.
- Have a fixed procedure for when the alarm goes off, like walking to the kitchen to start coffee.
- Prep the night before: lay out clothes and a towel, set up coffee, and plan your to-do list.
- A fixed wake-up time takes roughly one to two weeks to become easy.
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- 0:01
looks pretty good what can I say bed when you don't feel like do you have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning well I don't so in this video I'm gonna teach you how to be less like you and more like me that's not true I still struggle occasionally to get out of bed in the morning but after learning these five tips I'm a lot better at it surprisingly I didn't think that I could be someone who could just spring out of bed in the morning and just get to work but these five tips have helped me immensely and I would consider myself a morning person now it's crazy so if you're interested in becoming a morning person or getting out of bed more easily the most important thing that you need to take into account is that you need a reason to do it you need to find your reason why you want to start waking up early maybe that's you want to have more time in the day maybe you find that you're more productive in the morning when you actually wake up maybe it's
- 1:00
because you have a lot of work you need to get done during the day and you want to free up your evenings for friends and family and the fun stuff that you want to do that was actually my reason why I started waking up early it's cuz I do a lot of video work and I would find that often times I'd you know I'd have so much schoolwork so much video work so many personal errands I had to run by the time the evening rolled around my friends would be like hey Joey do you want to go do something and I would almost always say I got this thing I got this assignment like this video to edit and it gets old quick and your friends stop calling you to do stuff and it's pretty depressing so once you find your reason that you want to start waking up early you can follow these five tips to make that process easier tip number one is don't use your phone as an alarm clock this is bad for a number of reasons and the main one is that when you wake up in the morning and you grab your phone what's in your hand when you wake up it's a distraction device there's Instagram Facebook and whatever the heck you do on your phone right they're greeting you into the world you don't want that and it certainly won't help you spring out of bed and get on with your life the second reason is that if you were using your phone as an alarm clock
- 1:59
there's a good chance that you are using it before you went to sleep and science is showing that that is a significant contributor to a lack of quality in your sleep even if you say to yourself wow that's nice Joey that's nice science I use my phone before bed and I still fall asleep just fine you're not dumb maybe you are actually that's certifiably absurd science shows that when you use your phone before you sleep releases cortisol in your brain which is the stress hormone which really affects the quality of sleep you don't want to be stressed out when you're trying to fall into deep sleep that's all subliminal so if you think you can fall asleep just fine with your phone that might be the case but it's not very good sleep the solution to that is to unplug your phone charger from next to your nightstand move it to the end of the room or even to another room that sounds absurd in this day and age but you have to make sacrifices if you want to succeed I think that's what they say and then you have to buy a dedicated alarm clock take a look at how sexy and just minimalist and beautiful this looks I'll throw out Amazon affiliate link in the
- 2:57
description so you can get your copy of that and just give me money in the process tip number two is to wake up at the same time every morning even on the weekends you want to create your own sleep rhythms your body's internal clock loves that and when it knows it's time to wake up it will give you the energy it needs to wake up if it's consistent but if your sleep schedules like completely turbulent and all over the place your internal clock has no idea what's up so it's just gonna guess and often it misses the mark which is why you feel like crap in the morning but a lot of people will argue but what if I only get like three hours of sleep do I still have to wake up at 7:30 my answer to them is why are you up so late you should be more organized than that my other answer to that is that should be an exception like you shouldn't be doing that all the time try as far as you can if you have to supplement with power naps throughout the day that's encouraged but I'm talking about ideals here as just about to talk in my experience having a fixed wake-up time takes about a week to get used to
- 3:56
you'll start waking up at the same time every morning and realize that your body's not providing you with that energy but it'll get easier and easier as time goes on in about a week to two weeks later gonna really start to get used to it and it'll just be a well-oiled machine tip number three is to never set multiple alarms you might think that by setting multiple alarms is a security net to make sure that you wake up but most people just use that as an opportunity to stay in bed until you know these News the third alarm four times when you set multiple alarms you're subconsciously giving yourself permission to sleep past that first alarm and the second alarm so you need to train yourself to respond properly to that first alarm because there are no second alarms that alarm goes off and you have a procedure speaking of a procedure tip number four is to have a plan when you get out of bed one of the main reasons I used to just go back into bed or stay in it especially on the weekends is because I didn't really have a reason to get out of it obviously I had something to do later in the day probably a video to edit let's be real
- 4:56
but I didn't have to do it that morning so like why don't I just stay in bed until I start panicking and realize that I should probably get some work done if you can relate to this you need a system this can be as easy as just getting up out of your bed walking to your slippers if you have slippers I don't walking into your kitchen pressing play on the Keurig you know pressing start on the Keurig or Nespresso or boiling hot water that's it but you got to lock it in that is what you're doing as soon as that alarm goes off not that I recommend per se a caffeine dependency but there are a lot of us who have one one thing I tried doing it didn't really work out for me because I preferred my arrow press and Nespresso but I had a coffee maker that I prepped the night before that I set a timer for so when my alarm went the coffee was already ready for me to walk to and it was a great system I just didn't really like the coffee very much but if you don't mind the taste of cheap coffee made from a like $26 Amazon bestseller it's probably the cheapest way you can have that coffee automation system if you're not a coffee snob like
- 5:54
me check it out you might like it it sounded really condescending he'll probably be good enough for you that coffee maker stuff leads me right into my fifth tip fifth tip fifth tip which is prep the night before you want to make it as easy as possible for you to just jump out of bed and go about your day this includes but is not limited to having a dry towel ready for you so when you want to take a shower you can take a shower you might even want to prep your outfit that you're gonna wear for the day the night before have a fresh pot of coffee waiting for you like I said in the last step figure out what's on the to-do list for the day the night before so that when you get out of bed and have the coffee in you you actually know what your days looking like all of these things are helping you to start to do stuff and doing stuff is the best way to not sleep don't quote me on that if you do too much stuff you might get tired and then you fall asleep but I don't you get what I'm saying if you follow these five tips you have my personal guarantee that getting out of bed in the morning will be a lot easier and you may find that getting out of bed in the morning really isn't that bad if you like this video go ahead and hit
- 6:54
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Questions
AI-generated, and answered only from the transcript.
Why does the host say you should not use your phone as an alarm clock?
He says grabbing your phone in the morning puts a distraction device in your hand, and using it before bed releases cortisol, which hurts sleep quality. He suggests moving your charger away from the bed and buying a dedicated alarm clock.
Should you wake up at the same time on weekends?
Yes, he recommends waking at the same time every morning, even on weekends, to create consistent sleep rhythms. He says a fixed wake-up time takes about a week to get used to and one to two weeks to feel natural.
Why does he advise against setting multiple alarms?
He says multiple alarms give you subconscious permission to sleep past the first one. You should train yourself to respond to the first alarm because there are no second alarms.
What does he mean by having a plan when you get out of bed?
He means a simple fixed procedure, such as walking to the kitchen and starting the coffee maker. Locking in that routine gives you a reason to get up instead of staying in bed.
What should you prepare the night before?
He suggests having a dry towel ready, prepping your outfit, setting up coffee, and figuring out your to-do list for the next day. This makes it easier to jump out of bed and start doing things.
What was the host's own reason for waking up early?
He did a lot of video work and schoolwork, and evening plans with friends kept getting pushed aside. Waking early let him free up his evenings for friends and family.
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