As Rise Immediately sound the alarm

Some time ago I had trouble waking up in the mornings he seemed never sounded the alarm, you do not get passed that you can not immediately raise the alarm sounding? Do they end always giving the button "snooze? then back to sleep?

That was also part of my ritual. Whenever the alarm sounded that annoying noise is turned off immediately. Then, half dazed, and between sleeping, fighting against myself lying in bed:

This very tasty here under the sheets. If I stop now, as I will not get parking. The meeting is at 8 am anyway. O! Maybe you should wake up now! legs go, move, let trabajarrrrr! ... It seems that the legs do not want to move today, or are listening to me. Maybe I should wait another 15 minutes to become more tomorrow, I'm still half asleep, right? Maybe alarm clock is unnatural: I will let my body tell me when should I stop, I always worked all the best in the days when I sleep over in the morning! So I will not pick up so early, no sir ... instead I'm going to curl up as it was, not going back to open their eyes and so maybe I can get back to sleep ... if ... he was dreaming? . [Zzzz .... Zzzzz zzzzzz ... .. ... ..]

Two hours later I wondered: Me: What time is it? I'll be late again!, Did not I tell you I woke up at 6? Wife: I'm not going to work today, I heard you say you did not want to get up, your legs will not obey ... Why put the alarm if you're not going to obey? Me: And the alarm went off? I do not remember ...

Okay, back to this My alarm goes off before 6:30 am, almost always between 5:30 am and 6:15 am. On weekends and holidays is the same, although sometimes I finish reading and I fall asleep (I have a rule: if I can read 3 pages I have always speed, then I have too much sleep). I turned off the alarm once, take a deep breath, lift your legs so that to touch the floor jumped with both feet, never do that "one foot before and one after?. I go to the closet and select the shirt of the day, then to the bathroom and start showering, brushing my teeth and leave the room and read emails, check the news and make me coffee.

But as this process occurs on autopilot. I have no voice inside me say I do not even positive voices. I can not say that it is an act of self-discipline every morning because it is an act of conditioned response. It's like my mind was frozen, while my subconscious drive my body. When the alarm sounds in the morning, served as Pavlov's dog. It is difficult for me not to wake up when the alarm sounds.

The question is how to go from scenario 1 to scenario 2? First let us see how people usually attacks this problem, which I consider wrong (because I had tried so well).

The wrong way is to try using your conscious and willpower to get up every day. That may work for a few days, but let's be clear and be honest: always work with our mind excuses not to work when the alarm sounds. That decision you make when the alarm sounds is not exactly the right one to take your mind under those conditions. You can not trust yourself at 5 am, right? At least you should not.

If you are using this methodology, you will fall into the trap. 10 pm If you get a goal to get up at 5 am, then at 5 am think it's a good idea to get up at 8 am. Let's face it - you know that the idea is 10 pm ... ought to be implemented only if your from 5am I will follow the path.

So after being in this situation, many people conclude that you must have more self-discipline, be strict with themselves. It is in any way true, it's just not the way you think. You do not need a new watch, no self talk at that time, even more discipline at 5 am.

What is the solution? The solution is to delegate the problem, take it to your subconscious. Take your mind of that process.

How do I do that? You're not gonna believe but in the same way you learned other skills, like driving a bicycle, swimming, swinging at the ball of baseball. Practicing until unefecto becomes unconscious.

Does that sound stupid? Well, okay, I grant you that, but it really works! Practice waking up one seconds after the alarm sounds. That's right, practice. But do not do in the morning. Do it during the day while you are fully awake.

Go to your room. Place setting, close the curtains, all dark, with the temperature you like in the morning. Follow the routine-brushing before bed, put on your pajamas (yes, put on your pajamas, do everything as if you were to sleep, etc.). Place the alarm a few minutes later, I practiced with 3 minutes. Lie down as if you were to sleep, arrópate, get in your sleeping position and close your eyes ... relax, think about how rich he is sleeping.

Now, when your alarm sounds, get up as quickly as possible. Take a deep breath and stretch. Then sit back, plant your feet on the ground and get up. Smile, then do the steps that you normally do when you wake up. For me, as I said before, is going to select the shirt of the day.

Ok, shake a little, back to pre-sleep conditions, back to bed, put the alarm again, and repeat. Do it again and again until it becomes so automatic that you do the whole ritual without thinking.

If you have to "think? any of the steps (like hearing an inner voice that tells you to do), then you're not ready yet.

Feel free to do it several times a day, for as many times as necessary. Imagine it is like the gym, so many repetitions per day, many days a week. Sure, take some time to do this, but nothing compared to the time it will win by being awake.

A few hours of practice will earn you hundreds of hours each year. I for example I am getting up 1 hour earlier than normal, which gives me gain 365 hours per year: this is 45 weeks each additional 8 hours!. Additional time is this that keeps me writing without neglecting my work or my family.

With enough practice, and this need can not tell you much because every human being is different, you generate a new physiological condition the sound of your alarm. When the alarm sounds, once you get up, without even thinking. It will be part of your routine, and the more you practice, the stronger will.

When it becomes a daily habit, not need to practice more. Only strengthened with each passing day. Not even for long periods and unexpected, like a vacation, the pattern is lost: it will take very little time to recover.

If you want to change this pattern, you'd have to start again for a period of practice until you get this new pattern.

Once you've established this pattern of getting up unconsciously, I suggest you put the alarm at the same time the first 30 days. Then you can change for different hours for weekends, for example. You will see that time is not important, but the sound of the alarm. Sure you will like. There has to be at 5 am, eye! Adapt it to your working conditions or student.

Method offers the benefit of the doubt. Try: total, by now you might have tried other methods with average efficiency. This will not disappoint.

I hope you told me how it was with the method and if you've managed to establish this pattern successfully unconscious.

Well, it's 2 am and I have to wake early tomorrow.

For your success. Anthony