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Originally Posted by Perna
The best way to get out of bed is desire to get out of bed.
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Yes, exactly and I lack that desire to get out of bed on some days. I have tried to wake that desire in me... tried several ways, several reasonings, thinking of several things to do, whatever. It's very much hit and miss, usually miss.
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Concentrate on the coffee (if you like coffee) and make it interesting/a ritual and when you wake think on that and let your imagination pull you toward that and how good it will taste, and how good it will feel to be more awake instead of so lethargic, etc. Moving to a hot shower can work that way too.
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Nope, that's hardly a motivator.
Sometimes people are a motivator. Also, a set appointment in the morning that I cannot miss always gets the adrenaline moving and I'm able to jump out of bed fully alert and ready. It's good. But I have not found any place to go to everyday that would function like a set appointment like that. Volunteering is no go yet unfortunately - have not found anything in my area yet.
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I use my projects on my computer, my hobbies, and conversations on Facebook and here and other places to help me get up.
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Online conversations are usually not strong enough of a motivator. Sometimes yes but too hit and miss. I have my phone with me in bed so I can get online but it does not motivate me usually.
Projects on computer are not time sensitive so not a motivator.
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I wear a pedometer every day and post my steps on a site so want to do that in the morning (record the number on a slip of paper the night before as I take the pedometer out of my pocket before bed) and want to work in my journal and just see what's happening everywhere. Don't think of it as having trouble getting out of bed, use your curiosity and imagination to pull you forward to what's happening outside bed instead of concentrating on the bed sucking you back to sleep 
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I may be able to imagine things but it's not vivid enough to hype me up. The bed sucking me back to sleep is a much stronger, much more vivid/tangible thing to me.
Also, most things can wait, not time sensitive enough.