1. Set 2 alarms. Sounds obvious, but here's the kicker. Set them exactly 2 minutes apart! Place one beside your bed and have it play soothing music to wake you up slowly, then place the other on the other side of the room and have it play really that really annoying alarm sound.
- This is a slight twist on a fairly basic technique. It may be a winner though.
2. Set an automatic coffee maker to start making coffee in the morning and be awoken by the aroma wafting to your nostrils.
- I don't have what it takes for this, either a coffee machine OR a love of coffee. I presume this can be replaced by anything smelly though; a fry up, the smell of napalm in the morning or even the bin-lorry. A variation of this is to get a cat, feed it regularly at your desired wake-up time and then if you sleep in, it'll burst into your room and crawl all over your face until your get up and give it breakfast. Lousy cats.
3. Get some sort of "unorthodox" alarm clock.
(This is as close to a robot dinosaur as I think this post will allow.)
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Ah feck it:
or something like
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/70460.asp?promo=homepage
(there are others on this page too)
or
or this looks cool
(Also on my travels I found possibly the coolest thing EVER: )
- I think I might get that flying alarm clock, that looks pretty cool. But right now I have to go and find my old transformers and see how I can turn them into ipod docks.
4. Consequences. Nothing gets you out of bed like the threat of being fired. Or of missing your bus. Or of missing someone's viva talk. Or of being stomped on by a giant robot... you get the idea. At the moment I, and presumably all of you, have no real consequences to suffer for being late. Here's what I propose: we form Team Consequence. (Team-name poll coming soon). All members of the team (you guys) are sworn to pester, cajole and slag the other members (me) into getting up and in to work (relatively) early. I feel if we all pull together we can beat this thing!
As a final thought, here is a video showing just some of the consequences of having a robot ninja dinosaur in your life:
What about you guys? How do you manage to drag your ugly butts out of bed in the morning? Share your tips in the comment section.
5 comments:
First off, let me start by saying that Clocky is now on my Birthday Wish List, and the Transformers iPod dock is on my "To Get Gary" list!
This topic is very interesting indeed, and shockingly I had independent talks with both other Dr Almost members just today about this, so I feel we are all prepared to competently discuss it...
Personally, I use the two alarm clock deal, and I think after careful consideration, it pisses me off twice as much as one alarm clock. However, I do recommend it, as waking up pissed off is better than not waking up at all. Secondly, I tried placing the second alarm out of bed's reach, but this caused bouts of blind fury, followed by a broken clock and me getting back into bed in a huff, and oversleeping... hmmmm.... maybe Clocky wouldn't survive with me after all....
I sometimes use the coffee machine too, and I find it an excellent incentive to get to brekkie early... in fact, getting up this morning was a lil easier as I had in fact programmed Java Joe to start at 8.
Now, on to the Team motivation idea... there was mixed feelings of this today... Rob was up for the challenge of extra slagging, but Suzanne has a kinder approach, suggesting a positive reward would be more incentive than relentless reproaches... I suggested lemon bon bons....
(PS. Team Consequence is a great name btw!)
For me, as well as the previously mentioned double annoying alarms, coffee and such, I am also ousted from my warm and snuggly slumber by three other things...
1. Parking- I HATE to stress about not getting parking, and so will get up and in, just to avoid this problem. [Although I do see this becomming less of a motivator in a month when the studenst go off and enjoy their summer (little bas%*"ds)]
2. Meetings- Nothing like a meeting with the old boss man to get you in, and early enough to get parking and prep for said meeting for 20 mins.
3. Animals- They're cute. They're cuddly. And the require care. This care often inconveniently comes early for me on a Sunday... its a shame they don't enjoy lie in's as much as I do.... so feeding the four-legs gets me out of bed too.
:)
{PSS. Ack! Clocky is $50! And Gary, that Ninja Alarm is best one for you IMO, or the flying one- mega cool! What better than a toy to get you up?!}
don't know much about getting up late, early or otherwise, but I do know one thing: Sophie's posts are way better!
Gary, get your finger out of your ass. I want images embedded in posts with links to product pages not URLs, I want youtube video players embedded in posts too. Blogger makes this easy and your omittion of these vital elements suggests the wanton laziness that PLAGUES you.
A BLACK DEATH OF PLAGUES ON YOU.
Next post with piccies pretty please,
love,
Rob
All you had to do was click ONE BUTTON! And you're calling ME lazy?
EDITED 'cos Rob's a moany bitch.
that's the most amazing post on a blog ever! You have mastered the blogger. Now you must master the morning.
Good luck young Gary.
I usually set my alarm clock 15 minutes or so fast, which leads me to a pain-free solution for you - you could live your life 5 hours into the future. You'd be in bed for 12, in here by 9 and you wouldn't even notice!
I also think we should enforce the rewards/punishments idea (a la supernanny, it's all about setting boundaries), how about a lemon bon bon for every minute you're here before 10, and a minute on the naughty step for every minute you're late :-)
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