I so can not get getting up in am down. It is horrible. I have the best intentions, yet either get up and go back to sleep or don't get up at all. This has been a life long struggle, as even as a child and teen I loved to sleep in.
My kids, of course love it, as they watch tv, eat candy, and play the computer. But we are wasting so much time.
Then I wake up like a crazy woman yelling and barking orders, because now we have stuff to do or places to go.
I feel so lazy and like a bad mother. My own mother gets up early daily and used to make us breakfast and be cheerful before we went off to school. I am not setting a good tone for the day.
I need advice. What do you do to get up in am?
Ideally right now I want to be asleep at night by 12am and up by 8am.
Please pray and offer suggestions. I am so frustrated and at my wit's end.
I so need to get this right.
-Becky
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
I need a life coach
Posted by Becky R at 11:50 AM
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I feel for you, as i am a night owl. Sadly, the world looks down on us as being indolent, but truly, we simply like to start our day later!
What helped me was going to a homeopathic doctor. I went for something else, and when he gave me my remedy, he told me that many of my "all or nothing" extremes would soften. One of the things i'd notice was that i'd be much more alert in the morning than previously.
No, i don't wake up singing, and no, i still really don't like to talk in the morning, but yes, i am far more functional in the morning than i've ever been.
My DH is an early morning person. Always has been. Fades at night. Always had done. When he's had to work nights, he's miserable. He doesn't sleep right and is just plain cranky.
When i worked nights, i didn't get up much before noon: 9 a.m. was the crack of dawn in my world. I did have a job where i worked early morning and had to rise at 4:30. That was three years of torture.
Currently, i wake up between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. I'm usually out of bed by 7:00 a.m. The cats need to be fed, and they gently wake me up. (One used to meow rather loudly and after getting screamed at, she gladly let one of the other cats wake me. Grace simply rubs her head against me and purrs.)
I usually start work between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m., try to stop work by 6:00 p.m., and try to have supper cooked, eaten, and dishes done by 8:00 p.m. I try to get to bed by 11:00 p.m.
hth,
megan
What homeopathic remedy did the doctor give you?
hhm so no walk at 8 am?
Have you tried going to bed earlier? My husband and I go to bed between 9:30 and 10pm! :)
I am a night person. At night I put kids to bed, clean, sew, do paperwork, watch tv, relax, etc. It is my time. The house is quiet. I get my energy at night. I have to force myself to go to bed even by 12.
Besides I usually don't even have my kids asleep until about 10 (although Josh's bedtime is 8:30 and Jason's is 9:30, they don't fall asleep until an hour or two after bedtime.)
Becky,
I hesitate to give the name of the remedy because it doesn't mean if you take it, it will work for you the same way it worked for me. I also think it's one you can't get OTC, you have to get through a homeopath.
It's called medorrhinum. I had to take a 10M.
My doc did say that i was in that 5% who would be a one-remedy wonder sort of person. I'd see amazing changes in very short order and most likely wouldn't need to see him again for 5 more years. He was spot on.
megan
Oh, i forgot to say that before my remedy, my peak hours of production were between 7 p.m. and 4 a.m. All sixteen years of school i struggled with trying to get up early. Didn't matter how early i went to bed, i simply wasn't tired at night. Can't tell you how many times i'd lie in bed and hear the tv as my dad watched Jack Parr (host before Johnny Carson). Jack Parr came on at 11 pm, and i had bedtime that was before 8.
Now, i'd say my peak hours of production are about noon to midnight.
I didn't have the remedy until i was in my 30's, and i do wonder how much easier things would have been for me had i had it sooner.
megan
How about going to bed at a decent time! 10 pm lights out. Wake up at 5:00 and do stuff all day, by 10 you will be tired.
At 10 I usually am doing cleaning, paperwork, etc. I get all my energy at night. It is hard enough to force myself to go to bed by 12. Thanks for reading my blog.
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