My guy employs a lot of the above strategies as well --

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It really sucks staying on a new schedule, but if I could push only one opinion, I'd say to stick with a rock solid wake-up and bed time. Especially bed time. Ever since we started doing this, just basic functioning has just spiked. Also, it just sets a tone of order at the beginning of the day, and the peace of expectations at night.

(Somewhat of an aside, but the youtube vid "Should You Use the Snooze Button?" by asapscience really sealed the deal on this resolution).

Can't explain how cool the sleep schedule thing is. I thought it would take like a month to get used to too, but it actually took about three days.

Regardless - alarms and more alarms, I guess!