The ONE Thing That Keeps Us Sleeping
Longer
Probably one of
the biggest challenges people have is getting themselves out of the bed! This
really has nothing to do with understanding sleep science or any of the
information I teach, It has to do with your will power, and a
little bit of strategy.
You've probably
had many times in your life where you just couldn't get yourself out of bed. The
biggest reason why we tend to stay in bed is because we "rationalize." For
instance...
"I'll just sleep
for 10 more minutes..."
or
"It's okay,...
The alarm is early by 2.5 minutes anyway..."
or
"I'll get up when
the room warms up a bit..."
Haha! Well,
whatever you've rationalized not getting out of bed with, I'm sure it was
very creative too, because as human beings we're really great at coming up with
reasons for NOT DOING THINGS! The reason why rationalizing makes us stay in bed,
or prevents us from achieving many other goals in our lives is because it
creates negative momentum. The law of momentum states: Once something gets
into motion, it tends to stay in motion. The opposite, is also true: Once
something STOPS, it tends to STAY THERE!
Once you make a
decision to keep your butt in that bed for "a few more minutes..." It tends to
STAY THERE, and it usually stays there for A LOT LONGER THAN A FEW MINUTES!
That's why I teach people to create a momentum strategy to get out of bed
as quickly as possible, and START MOVING, start moving around the house, go for
a run, make love with your partner, whatever it is you need to do to start
moving and stop sleeping. When you create positive momentum it will be TOO LATE
to rationalize about sleep because you'll already be out of your bed! So here
are just a couple of strategies YOU could use to get out of bed quickly and get
more out of your day :
#1) The
"Distant Alarm" Method
Most people place
their alarms right next to their bed within reach. This is a BIG no no if you
want to avoid staying in your bed. Why? Because most of the time YOU DON'T EVEN
HAVE TO ROLL OVER to press the alarm. That doesn't create a lot of movement and
definitely doesn't stop you from sleeping your life away.
Instead of
placing your alarm clock by your bed, place it far away, like at the end of your
bedroom by the corner of the wall! By doing this you'll be forced to get up
out of your bed to turn it off! By the time you're out of bed it will be too
late to rationalize staying longer in bed, you'll be out already.
I even once
duck-taped my alarm clock to the ceiling, so every morning I had to get up and
get a chair right underneath it to turn it off. Where there's a will, there's
a way.
#2)
Rehearsing.
The reason why we
"rationalize" morning after morning is because we've done it so long that we do
it without even thinking about it. Rationalizing becomes a learned and rehearsed
behavior.
A good way to
STOP rationalize is to rehearse jumping out of your bed in advance. When you're
ready to go to bed, simple do this this exercise: lie down in your bed as if you
were sleeping, close your eyes... Then pretend you've just woken up in the
morning, and JUMP RIGHT OUT OF BED saying "YEAAAA!!!"
Repeat this
exercise at least 5-10 times, or as much as feels good! I know it sounds stupid
but it works! Your mind does what you tell it to do in a given situation. Doing
this exercise will teach your mind a new behavior. In order to stop
"rationalizing" you must replace the old behavior with a new behavior
:o)
When you think
about it, we're taught how to brush our teeth, we're taught how to take proper
care of our bodies, and some of us are even taught proper nutrition skills, but
NO-ONE is hardly ever taught how to take proper care of their inner sleep
system, which is responsible for your energy and your health more than you
know! Whatever rationalizations you've come up with, allow me to suggest
that you forget them and take some positive momentum in your life RIGHT
NOW.
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About The Author:
Kacper Postawski is an innovative sleep
science researcher and the creator of
the “Powerful Sleep - Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock” system on
www.PowerfulSleep.com. He can show you how to reduce your sleep by up to 3 hours, create more time, and
an abundance of energy in your body
by sleeping LESS! Not more. He dispels the “8 hour sleep myth”, tells you what
most people never realize about sleep, and what the drug companies DONT WANT YOU
to know. Go to:
PowerfulSleep.com to find out more about Powerful
Sleep.
