I can NOT get to work on time.. Suggestions?

[Keego]

Everything I do is not enough, I just can NOT get out of bed in the morning.. I'm getting like.. 7 hours of sleep, that should be enough!!

 

[acidvoodoo]

go to bed earlier

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

it's not enough, get more sleep.

 

[vi edit]

Have a roommate/wife/gf/parent grab your leg and drag your worthless ass out of bed.

 

[Hoober]

My wife wakes me up every morning with a kiss.

 

[poopaskoopa]

Stop worrying about it?

 

[glen]

Go to work 30 mins early.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
go to bed earlier

 

[fonzinator]

Allow a friend one swing at you with a baseball bat the next time you show up late.

 

[Viper GTS]

Get two alarm clocks, set them a few minutes apart. I don't start work until 6:30, but my first alarm goes off at 4:20. The next at 4:23. Both have snooze features.

The mental workout required to determine which alarm is going off and shut it off accordingly is enough to pull me awake, but it takes 20 mins or so of alternating snooze between the two alarms.

Viper GTS

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: fonzinator
Allow a friend one swing at you with a baseball bat the next time you show up late.

For some reason this made me smile

 

[RalphWiggum]

Why don't you just set your clock forward by like 15 minutes or however much you are late by?

 

[richardycc]

set your alarm clock 1/2 hour fast!


rich

 

[Beau]

Put your alarmclock across the room. That way you have to get up to turn it off.

 

[Geekbabe]

Get a job that you like

 

[Maverick]

Originally posted by: RalphWiggum
Why don't you just set your clock forward by like 15 minutes or however much you are late by?

that stops working after a few months...I need to set mine back to the correct time or something.

 

[Rob9874]

If you can't get up in the morning, that's a sign that you're not getting enough sleep. I know that's the case for me. Some people can get by on 5 hours sleep, some need 9. By the sounds of it, you need more than 7. I know, it sucks to go to bed at 10pm. I usually nap for a few hours after work, so I can stay up later.

 

[vi edit]

Actually, from what I can tell, not being able to get up is more of an issue of your alarm not going off when you are finishing up a sleep cycle. Instead it's going off when you are in the middle of a sleep cycle. You just need to figure out when you need to go to sleep, and when you need to wake up to get up at the right time.

 

[Jeraden]

For some reason, when I go to bed early, I actually have a harder time getting up in the morning. For example, I went to bed at 1am on Tuesday and I was able to get up for work at 7am no problem. Last night I went to bed at 11:30pm and couldn't get up until 7:30am (thus getting to work 20 minutes late).

And about setting the alarm clock ahead, mine is currently 45 minutes ahead. I'm afraid to set it back or I'll never be able to get up on time. I have my alarm set to 7am (which is really 6:15am). I snooze it until at least 7:30am (6:45am). I'm totally oblivious to it until 7:30, its like I am so used to snoozing it until 7:30 that I don't even know it went off prior to that. So if I am awake enough I get up at 7:30 (6:45) and can get out the door to work by 7:15am realtime - getting me to work at 8am as scheduled. "Panic" sets in when I realize I've snoozed it past 7:45am (7am), so I always get up by at least then, except on rare occassions like last night when I didn't realize I was still snoozing the alarm until it read 8:15 (7:30am).

So moral of the story is, if you set your alarm clock ahead, you will be stuck in a never-ending cycle of never knowing what time it actually is in the groggy AM hours and you just get used to the adjusted times anyways.

On mornings when I absolutely need to get to work on time, like when I have an 8am meeting, I'll move the alarm clock onto the floor on the other side of the nightstand, so I physically have to get out of bed to turn it off. Usually thats enough to trigger my memory that I actually need to get to work on time and I'll be ok.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Get two alarm clocks, set them a few minutes apart. I don't start work until 6:30, but my first alarm goes off at 4:20. The next at 4:23. Both have snooze features.

The mental workout required to determine which alarm is going off and shut it off accordingly is enough to pull me awake, but it takes 20 mins or so of alternating snooze between the two alarms.

Viper GTS

lol my alarm clock has 2 alarms in it
i wonder how that would work out

 

[Dacalo]

build some willpower

 

[GasX]

Take some responsibility for yourself and get up...

 

[LordThing]

Quit your job

 

[Miramonti]

some need more than 7 hours sleep, no question about that.

and take vitamins before you go to sleep. works well for me.

 

[Bigred75]

quick question?......................how OLD are ya? Ive noticed as ive gotten older that the whole need for sleep has lessened over the years.At 27 i hardly need 7 hours any more but as a man of 18 i needed to be gettin like 10 hours to really function....if you are tired you NEED to be letting your body get the rest it wants .......GO TO BED EARLIER .