How are you in the mornings?

Hate mornings... unless we're talking about the early hours of the morning - that's when I'm at my best. Sadly, though, that's when I should be asleep.

Have always struggled getting out of bed in the morning. Have recently started sleeping with the curtains open and find it helps me feel fresher when I wake up. Perhaps I should invest in one of those 'natural light' alarm clock thingies.
 
Up at 5.45 to have some breakfast.
Gym at 6.30 - 7.30.
I'm a home-worker, so back to the house for 7.40 where I'll chill out, watch TV and have a coffee till 9am when the working day begins.

I don't really struggle too much to get up. The worst of it passes in the first 60 seconds of being awake. After that I'm away. By 9am it feels like half-way through the day!
 
Usually wake up at 7AM and leave my house at around 7:45-8AM. Normally tired no matter what time I go to sleep.
 
When I had a sheibe job, like really bad, at one point I would hope they would fire me or tell me to go home, it was a warehouse job, best thing I could hope for as a 18yo just out of college.

Best way to deal with it was to look forward to something, could be as small as getting ice cream after work, or make plans to get some pc components. As long as you have a goal to look forward to you will find the slightest of motivation to get out of bed and go to crap job.
 
I quite like my job, but there is nothing much more I hate than having to get up for work. My colleague and I both work a 30-hour week. She gets to work 4x7.5 (therefore only 4 commutes per week), but my job-spec requires me to be in every day and thus work 5x6.
 
I find the note on getting up early quite interesting. I'd quite like to get up an hour earlier, take time to have breakfast, enjoy myself etc. However, I drive to work, and for every 5 minutes later I leave, it takes about 10 minutes longer to get to work (due to being further into rush hour). So if I started getting up earlier, I think I'd only end up leaving earlier and removing the benefits?
 
Up at 0450, leave the house at 0540, on a train at 0607 and in to work on time at 0700.

Found it very hard in the beginning but my sleeping pattern slowly adjusted. Not sure if it's a placebo, but I also found taking multivitamins that give you enough iron helped a lot and I get groggy if I don't take them.

Due to my pattern I'm normally up at 6AM most weekends which isn't so bad either.
 
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