> 7) Go to bed early. This is the most difficult one for me. I’m trying to put away my phone by 9 pm and switch to reading in Kindle, but man it is hard!

It is a lot easier to control when you wake up over when you go to sleep. Set an alarm, always get up when the alarm goes off and eventually you will be tired earlier at night and fall asleep.

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xyzzy_plugh 4 days ago | parent [-]

This is the funniest thing I've read all day. I'm sure I'm not alone in that this reads just like the "don't be not good looking" kind of advice.

If only life were so simple.

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__turbobrew__ 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sleep — just like looks — is a large part hygiene and related life decisions.

Exercise helps you be more tired, setting an alarm for the same time every day helps you stay more consistent, having a pre bed time routine that doesn’t involve screens helps your brain slow down. There are discrete actionable things which are proven to help with sleep.

My natural tendency is to stay up to 2AM and sleep to 10AM, but with conscious effort — and an internally driven motivation to change — I now get up at 6AM every day.

It was hard and I didn’t get there right away, but lots of worthwhile things in this life are hard.

Honestly I think there is something wrong with either our environment or how we raise our kids, because I see so often that people lack executive function and any ability to manifest change for the better in their life. I don’t blame people for having issues as they stem from their parents, I have lots of personality issues that stemmed from how my parents raised me (the business end of a belt) but I would like if society could take a step back and figure out how we can raise humans who are better in control of their own destiny.

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AppleBananaPie 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm confused how is setting an alarm not simple? It will wake you up.

Equivalents for sleeping are things like head trauma and drugs.

Is the argument the alarm can just be ignored? But even in that case up your alarm game. Lol I must be missing something super obvious

	▲	rkomorn 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've had to accept that people are just very different when it comes to this. I'm someone who rarely ever wakes up with an alarm (usually I wake up before it and turn it off). I never snooze an alarm either. Alarm goes off, I get up, even if it's hours earlier than usual. Clearly there are people who simply can't actually do this, for whatever reason. For me, the "opposite" holds. The only times I've ever gotten up past 7am regularly are when I had jobs that had shifts that ended past midnight. Otherwise I absolutely cannot stay awake past 10pm consistently. As habits, staying up late for me appears as impossible as getting up early is for my wife.
	▲	balfirevic 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Some people will sleep through alarms, turning them off without remembering it. But more importantly, if your sleep schedule is shifted you might not actually be able to fall asleep when you need to, even if you haven't had enough sleep. After a few days you will be exhausted, fall asleep in the afternoon and take a nice 4 hour nap, leaving you unable to fall asleep until very late, after which the cycle continues.