How did you become a morning person?

I have always been a morning person, it runs in our family. I'm not sure if it's possible to change. I do know that it became alot easier to get up and I had alot more energy when I started exercising every morning.

When I made the commitment to exercise every morning before work, I HAD to get out of bed early! If I don't exercise before I go to work, it is next to impossible to work it in after work. The BIG thing that has helped me is having an email accountability group....when I am laying there trying to talk myself out of getting up, I remember that I have to email my group and report that I did not exercise that morning...accountability goes a long way in motivating me!!!
good luck!

Honestly I got tired of telling myself I would do it tomorrow. So I started getting up in the am to workout. It is the only way that I can garentee a workout. Now that I am use to it, sometimes it is harder for me to go other days. I love it.

Im exactly the same!
If left naturally my sleep pattern will change so i wake up about 8pm and go to bed about 6am..
Yes i sleep for like 14 hours at a time..

And people always tell me to like turn on the light and stuff to wake up,
but i just find during the day i can sleep really easily.
The sun is like soothing through the certains, and its nice and warm, while being breezy and the birds singing n **** just send me straight to sleep.
Whereas at night, when its cold, and all you can hear is that high-pitched buzz, which i imagine comes from the phone lines, (which you normally cant hear over the cars in the day), it just like gets me up.

Besides i love going for walks at night, its just like soothing. Whereas during the day its kind of stressful..
It just prefer to be up at night...

and i find theres nothing i can do about it.

Going to bed a bit earlier, drinking lots of water throughout the day and keeping my blind open a bit so I wake up with brightness. Always makes me happy!

I started a job that required me to be there at 6 am. During the holidays, I'm there as early as 3 am.

Took a while to get used to, but after the holiday season of working so early, the 6 am is nothing now.

Eh, and I realized this doesn't exactly help you, lol. It was just something I got used to. I used to be a night owl, too. Now it's hard to stay up past 10.

I've been getting up at 5am for my job for over 20 years and I have two children and to this day I am not and never will be a morning person. It's not genetically possible. I get up because I have to and I'm not fit to be talked to until around 9 and even then it's questionable. Give me 3 days off in a row and I'll be right back to my night owl ways. This is why I work out after work. If I worked out before work I'd have to be at the gym by 430am and that aint happening.

Practice, lights early in the a.m. no lights early in the p.m. (boring reading helps). Lots of coffee and before long you will be up with the birds singing or the sunshine. Having a cat that likes to get you up at 4 a.m. helps. The older you get the easier it is, says something for biological clock reasons too. Did I mention lots of practice? :flowerforyou:

I too am a night-owl by nature. Mostly my moms fault though, because my dad worked swing shift since before I was born until I was about 15, my mom liked to wait up for my dad to get home to spend time with him and she'd keep me up along with her until I was school age, so when I was a baby she'd keep me up so she could get some sleep and as a kid she'd keep me up watching movies with her until he'd get home. We're talking staying12am-2am Mon-Fri I'd be up as a kid, so obviously it was ingrained at a young age and obviously I'd sleep till 10ish each day.

I've suffered with not being a morning person most of my life. My best recomendation is to put your alarm clock across the room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. I've tried EVERYTHING and that seems to be the best one for me. I also reccomend making sure when you get out of bed, your house isn't freezing. That's my biggest temptation is getting back into my cozy warm bed, but if it's warm outside of your bed you won't have to do that.

Good luck.

I joined a special program that helped people realize their early morning potential. The Marine Corps.

Have rarely slept in since.

I normally get up at 3:30-4:00am (depending on how many times I mash the snooze) and am groggy/sleepy until I make it into work around 6am. This morning I decided to do a bit of exercise (about a 15 minute warm-up) and I felt pretty good most of my 2 hour drive and have been wide awake all morning. I'm going to give this a go for a week and see if I can continue it. If so, I may get up a bit earlier and get a full workout in. We'll see.

Never have, never will. Night owl for life.

amen!

the only way I have become a morning person is by going to bed early - at the moment that works for me as it is only me and my son but if I had a social life that wouldn't work - not sure what else to suggest

I still am not. It's a struggle to get up every day at 4:45 am to get at least 45 min of work out in, get the kid ready for school and be at work by 8 am. : )

The only thing that has helped me is taking a sleeping pill at about 7pm and it will usually put me down by 10pm... then I can get up in the morning.