How do I abandon the habit of going to bed too late?

Answer 1

Get up early, set the alarm clock and leave it far from your bed, so you have to get up to turn it off, put it somewhere high so you have to get a chair and really wake up before you get to it ( but be careful with that) and go to the gym, move, so you're tired early

Answer 2

Habits are hard to get rid of. A good way to get rid of a habit is to have rewards and punishments. You could set up a schedule of rewards and punishments for yourself, however it can be hard to enforce so if you had someone else to help it would probably work better. When you go to bed at your set "early" time you could get a reward such as your favorite breakfast food in the morning. However if you didn't go to bed before the set time then the punishment would be to get up early that next morning. Hopefully after too many early mornings you will want to go to bed early. Good luck!

Answer 3

Is it simply a habit. Usually or rather natural anxiety, angst, forces a search for a means to self pacify or comfort through fantasy or fiction, like TV or gossip, to intellectually separate our consciousness from the content that spurrs those anxieties. If you are going to college, now is the perfect time to switch from fiction to non-fiction with special emphasis on your course study, your chosen intellectual reading material. As you put those unfinished projects behind you in a finished or completed condition your anxieties shall diminish, shrink and become background noise in your mind. Finally the transformation is complete and you have become an onwardly progressive student and professional.

The fear doesn't die, it simply puts the horse to the wagon of your choice. Make it *your* choice.

Answer 4

at around 11 turn everything off and go to bed. also get up early. set an alarm for like 7 or 8. go outside and work for a while. dont take naps. anything that you can do that makes you tired would work

Answer 5

Go to bed earlier than you usually do. Lie on the bed, read a book in a dim light ...

Actually, I need help with this problem too, so good luck!!

Answer 6

for someone like me who was still in a 9pm to bed routine at university age, its hard to explain but i'll try, because it worked well for me when i was studying.
firstly, i want to say that my husband has serious issues with running his business cause he can't / wont abandon this bad habit. yes, i said 'bad' habit because it really messes up any form of routine.
thing is, the whole society / community we live in, make use of night time to sleep, from a logical perspective, it makes sense. it saves electricity, and sleeping for a certain amount of time each night is essential for the body to recouperate from a long hard day of strain and whatever else, stress perhaps. it is a necessity, not a luxury. if you dont get enough sleep, crabbiness sets in, you alienate people around you, you find it hard to keep commitments and people might find you unreliable if you dont keep to appointments, so, things start at school when you have to adhere to early morning routines. (in south africa where i'm from, most businesses open at 7am or 8am!) we really optimize on our day, thats why, in relation to other african countries, we really are a first world country. i live in the uk, and my hubby thinks there's nothing wrong with his routine of going to bed at 5ish on average. its cost him a shitload of money (in losses) because clients feel he's unreliable if they call him up about removals and he's still having a chat with mr sandman. all i can suggest is that you have a friendly alarm clock/radio (set it to radio so you dont feel aggravated by a cold alarm noise, instead, your fave station) and then, get up when you need to. at night, at 11 for the latest, when you are tempted to sit on the computer, force yourself to turn it off by asking yourself this question (keep this question around until you're used to it) ' what is it that this computer will earn me that my education won't?' or 'is my education more important to me than this computer right now or what?' in that way, you envisage what you want to achieve by means of your education, and envisage how watching television and sitting behind a computer, will destroy that if you let it dictate to you to sit up later than you ought to...just to finish that 'last' bit of the movie. switch it off right there and then, you can always ask a friend about the end! or, watch it on video/dvd some other time! i wish you all of the best, its good you have a critical approach rather than just let it take over your life!

Answer 7

I wish I knew I have the same problem and its messing me up, I start college soon and I Cant be going to bed at 5 in the morning, good luck with your prob.

Answer 8

go to bed at 2:00 then get up at 7:00

Answer 9

Pick a bedtime you'd prefer, and choose to do something at that time that will make you sleepy. Don't drastically change, work your way down to that time. Pick reading, or balancing your checkbook or something. Get up earlier too.......your body will need more sleep eventually, and the only way to get it will be to get to bed earlier.

Answer 10

I'd like to know the answer to that too. I get carried away with some things and realise how much time's flown passed way too late.