re: How to become an early-riser "morning person"

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There isn't much better than drinking a cup of coffee just before sunrise and enjoying the still quietness, then listening to the world wake up as the sun comes up.

I've been known to get up around 3:30 to light the fire pit in the winter, and drinking my coffee next to it while the sun comes up.

I feel like I've wasted the day if I sleep past 7.

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100% TRUE STORY.

i used to spend 2 weeks at my grandparents' house every summer. i would wake up at 6am and there would already be 2-3 biscuits out in the yard for the squirrels to eat. my grandmother would be washing & folding clothes in the laundry room which wasn't attached to the house.

my granddad would walk into the house, sweaty from having worked his butt off in the yard and say 'well you ready for LATE breakfast?'

some things stick with you your whole life. this was one of those defining moments. grandad didn't play

I get out of bed at 4:30 and at work for 6:00 but I’m not really awake until somewhere around 7-7:30ish. Wish I could work out before work but that just isn’t possible.

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I feel like I've wasted the day if I sleep past 7.

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This.

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There isn't much better than drinking a cup of coffee just before sunrise and enjoying the still quietness, then listening to the world wake up as the sun comes up.

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The best thing about getting in a deer stand while it’s still dark and watching and listening the woods come alive.

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What are you doing at midnight that I can't do at 3 PM?

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Hookers and blow

I envy early risers. I've never been one, unfortunately.

I don't care if I go to sleep at 9pm or 1am, I struggle to wake up and get moving before 7am. With COVID and WFH I typically don't roll out of bed until at least 8am.

Would love to be the kind of person that got up, had a quiet cup of coffee, and worked out each morning. But it's just not in my DNA.

In bed by 9pm, up around 5am, in the office by 6am.
I hate getting home after the sun goes down, been this way since I got out of high school. I would rather work my arse off from 6-noon than sit in an office until it gets dark then go home with just a couple hours to spend with family/hobbies

My grandparents were early risers as well. Some of my best bonding time with my grandmother was when I'd go there in the summer and wake up early while she cooked breakfast for him before he went to work. Once he left, grandma and I would sit at the kitchen table talking while we waited for my brother to wake up. I can still remember the little black & white TV on the counter she'd have on and tuned to Good Morning America with Joan Lunden.

I remember spending the night a friend's house when I was 7 or 8. His parents were out of town and his grandparents were watching him and his sister. I assumed they were like my grandparents and up early, but nope. I sat in his living room for what seemed like 6 hours waiting for everyone else to wake up. I was too scared to turn the TV because his grandpa was kind of mean. I think it was only an hour or so I was out there.

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Does it suck for a couple of weeks and then become routine?

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Its easy at first, gets stale after a couple of weeks, becomes second nature after a year or so.

I get up at 4a.

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Go to bed 8 to 9 hours before you need to wake up and have good sleep hygiene.

Its an incredibly simple concept that is hard for people to execute.

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So much to it than this...... Our bodies have natural circadian lows generally between 3-5 pm and 3-5 am. Maximizing these two windows will benefit many people. Food, alcohol, and so much more can be in the “sleep hygiene” category but going to bed 8-9 hours before you need to wake up isn’t going to work for a lot of people.