[greensky602]

I feel many moments of drowsiness ( don't know if it really is a result of my medications), and I don't want to get out of bed early most days because I feel so horrible. I have been living as a lazy couch potato for the past three, four years and I'm ready to make a change. I want to get back my strength and be a productive citizen, however, I feel really drowsy and am frightened, impatient, worried, and a whole lot of negative emotions. I don't know if I am suppose to be working, but I feel a strong sense of guilt for taking life so lightly while everyone works their butts off. I want to try harder. I don't have a strong foundation, strong morals, and don't have a strong sense of character. I want to change. I want to feel good about myself, like myself, but I know I will have to develop a strong sense of being good before I can truly appreciate myself and life. How can I change?

[Ambiguous]

I think by ingesting some of what you wrote down. I think the foundation that you are reaching for is infront of you. You have set out a road map before your self already...
Very few of us get out of bed and plant both feet right away. One foot after the other is the aproach most take. If you approach your goal set the same way then life will begin to blossom for you. What you allow to become important to you is important. What and who you allow to alter your mood is a moote point. We are the epicenter of our selves. Choose to represent your self how you want to be seen. Learn to accept your strengths and weaknesses, no one is perfect. I use to have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. The alarm clock would go off and I would lay there poss. get up poss. go back to sleep. I told myself enough. Now when the alarm goes off I spring out of bed ready or not. One obsticle down on to the next. What was that line from Mortal Combat... Choose Your Destiny. I do not know if I am on point here for you or not, but I read you post and thought I would try and make contact.
I hope this helps.

Ambiguous

[Rose76]

The getting out of bed thing has plagued me my whole life. About the only thing that will really make me get up is if I have someplace that I have to be. Today I had to get up for a computer class that I already paid $10 for. Having paid the money gave me real incentive.
Other ways I try and goad myself are: 1) I put the alarm clock where I can't reach it from the bed. I'm thinking of getting a cheap simple electric alarm clock that's loud and put it in the kitchen so I have to leave my bedroom to shut it off. If I can at least get to the kitchen, then maybe I'll make some coffee or cereal. 2) This is hard, but if I can get into the shower, that can make me start to wake up. (Getting the incentive to get in the shower is the hard thing.) 3) There are medications that can help you to wake up. If I manage to get to the kitchen and take my "wake up" med, it kicks in about 20 min. later, and, to my astonishment, I kind of lose the desire to go back to sleep.

[Perna]

Have you tried going to bed earlier in the evening, getting a "routine" started where you will be well rested the next morning so not really "mind" getting up? I open the front door, turn on lights and get my coffee in the morning and then head for the computer, here, which I really like. So, I know where I'm "going" when I wake up and like that place well enough to get up for.

Light helps me some; I pull the blinds up or make sure light gets into my room from windows/other rooms.

For a long time when I was in therapy I use to record my dreams and they kind of disappear if you don't write them down right away; they were an exciting "gift" I was willing to get up for and write in my journal and work with.

[littlebitlost]

Annoying alarm clock.

And knowing I have to prise my child out of bed and have her ready for school, and not go in my pjamas to drop her off. :S

[lastyearisblank]

I've tried different methods for this
1) Getting fancy coffee at the street vendor-- incentive to leave the house!!!
2) Not keeping breakfast food in the house--
the starvation method...
3) 2 alarm clocks

It's always going to be a pain though, if you're fighting it. The best method for getting out of bed early is always going to be wanting to get out of bed and live life.

When you lie in bed at night (and do try to go to bed early) maybe think about 1 thing you are looking forward to doing the next day.

[littlebitlost]

I've been thinking more about this since I was browsing the forum, and I think it's come to me a bit.

When things are going right it's like a snowball effect and things just keep going in the right direction. If you know what I mean. (IYKWIM)

Start with small things like a list of

Get out of bed.
Get on some clothes.
Wash face.
Breakfast.
One thing you have to do that day.

And just start adding to the list each day and the basic everyday things will become (good) habit and your world will start rolling in a good direction with less effort.

Also Sleep Hygiene. I know, I know, but once you've got into a groove you'll do great. I started this and was going great until I had a break from my daughter when my ex had her second half of easter school holls. :/

It's about getting up during the day, when you're sposed to wake up let light into your bedroom. It apparently triggers a hormonal response of Get Up.

Routines. Depends how much sleep you need. I always thought I needed about 9-10 hours, but worked FINE and felt GOOD (wtf?) on 8. 10:30pm till 6:30am. Same times all the time.

I don't remember the rest about the SH rules but these worked for me. Less tired. More energy.

[Brometheus]

this is sad.. i've suffered from this all my life. i recently employed 5 different alarm clocks to go off sometimes all at once or at different times. i hit a record low this week when i slept through all of these annoying alarm.. heck, one of them is of a woman screaming.. very high pitch. very annoying. yep, i slept through it. the best advice is as someone up above said, get a routine. calculating your sleep helps. I can normally run on 4 hr sleep, but then id need an hour to "recover" from sleep (by laying in bed, ofcourse---superlazy).. and an hour to get ready for wherever i have to go.. so thats about a 6hr headroom for myself. ofcourse, this can be achieved in less time--less time recovering/getting ready.

hope my routine makes sense to someone..