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How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off
When your alarm wakes you up in the morning, is it hard for you to get up right away? Do you find yourself hitting the snooze button and going right back to sleep? That used to be part of my daily awakening ritual too. It’s nice and warm under the covers. Oh, I really should get up now. I should go to the gym. Maybe I’m trying to get myself up too early. I don’t have to get up right this minute, do I? I’ll bet my wife is toasty warm right now. [ Scootch… scootch… Zzzzzzzz ] Two hours later… Me: What time is it? Wife: Why do you keep setting your alarm if you aren’t going to get up when it goes off? Me: Oh, did you think that was my wake-up alarm? OK, so I wasn’t really intending for it to be a snuggle alarm. Fast forward to present day… My alarm goes off sometime between 4:00 and 5:00am… never later than 5:00am, even on weekends and holidays. But this time there’s no voice inside my head debating what I should do. So how do you go from scenario one to scenario two? Now how do you do this?

What Does Your Body Language Say About You? How To Read Signs and Recognize Gestures - Jinxi Boo - Jinxi Boo Art by LaetitziaAs we all know, communication is essential in society. Advancements in technology have transformed the way that we correspond with others in the modern world. Because of the constant buzz in our technological world, it's easy to forget how important communicating face-to-face is. When conversing old-school style, it's not only speech we verbalize that matters, but what our nonverbal gestures articulate as well. Body language is truly a language of its own. 10% from what the person actually says40% from the tone and speed of voice50% is from their body language. Lowering one's head can signal a lack of confidence. Pushing back one's shoulders can demonstrate power and courageOpen arms means one is comfortable with being approached and willing to talk/communicate

How to Become an Early Riser – Part II Last Monday’s post How to Become an Early Riser obviously struck a chord with many people. That post has generated more links than I can count, sending more new traffic to this site than any other post or article I’ve written. And the traffic logs indicate that the surge was decentralized (not attributable to a mention in any one major source). You can get an idea of what that post did for StevePavlina.com’s traffic at Alexa (note the big spike at the end of May 2005). Last Monday I did a Google search on “how to become an early riser” (in quotes). OK, so this was an instalanche. Since this appears to be a topic of interest, even though I don’t fully understand why, I figured I’d do a follow up post to add some more detail. First, on the subject of going to bed when you’re sleepy… to do this correctly requires a mixture of awareness and common sense. If you’re doing stimulating activities before bed, you’ll be able to stay up later and stave off sleepiness for a while. Why get up early?

Feeling Tired in the Morning? Here's How to Wake Up Fast If you're like the typical American you don't bound out of bed in the morning eager to take on the challenges of the day. It's more likely that you crawl out of bed after tossing your alarm clock across the room in frustration. Being tired when you wake up in the morning is no laughing matter. If you're one of those unfortunate souls that can't seem to function until noon, you may be suffering from a condition known as sleep inertia. If you suffer from sleep inertia, it may help to reschedule your hours so you go to work later in the day. Another way to wake up fast in the morning is to establish a set sleep schedule and stick with it each day. Another trick to help you wake up fast is to flood your bedroom with light as soon as you awaken. To wake up fast, you need to eat a nutritionally sound, high protein breakfast. Lastly, if you have time, take a quick walk outdoors as soon as you awaken.

Corbett Barr | Lifestyle Business Weekly Oil Pulling, Wonderful Therapy, An Ancient Ayurvedic natural remedies for Great Health How to Become an Early Riser It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up.

Estudio: Los inteligentes tardan más en dormir y prefieren la noche Las personas más inteligentes se sienten atraídos por la noche, momento y espacio que favorece su creatividad y desarrollo, es por ello que prefieren dormir más tarde e incluso desvelarse. Si bien diversos estudios alertan que dormir poco puede quitar años a la vida o ser perjudicial para la salud, la realidad es que quienes padecen de insomnio pueden ser más inteligentes. El dormir es un factor fundamental en la biología de los animales, y existe nueva evidencia que los patrones de sueño y la hora en la que una persona decide ir a dormir están ligados a su capacidad cognitiva, a su inteligencia. Al parecer la gente con mayor IQ (coeficiente intelectual) tiende a ser más activa durante la noche, mientras que aquellos no tan agraciados en en este rubro prefieren acostarse antes. LOS AUTORES. De acuerdo con Kanazawa, nuestros ancestros eran típicamente diurnos, y paulatinamente la tendencia se ha vertido hacia ir elevando su actividad nocturna.

Derek Halpern — Unmissable Articles Irregularly Natural Eczema Treatment With Virgin Coconut Oil The MCFA help restore damaged skin, by penetrating into the cell structures of the connective tissues. Hence, it is excellent as a natural eczema treatment, for other skin disorders as well as for anti-ageing purposes. It also helps prevent the skin from developing liver spots, by destroying free radical formation. MCFA in coconut oil help to prevent fungal and bacterial infections in the skin. At least one type of bacterium feeds on the sebum of our skin, breaking down the tryglycerides of the coconut oil into free fatty acids. When they are broken apart into free fatty acids, they become powerful antimicrobials, killing disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The combination of the slightly acid pH of the skin and the MCFA provides a protective chemical layer on the skin that prevents infection from disease-causing organisms. When you bathe or shower, ordinary soap tends to wash off the acid mantle of your skin. (1). (2). (3). (4). (5). (6). (7). (1). (2). (3).

Polyphasic Sleep Long-Term Consequences | Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog One long-term consequence of the polyphasic sleep experiments I did in 2005-2006 is that I still retain the ability to fall asleep very quickly. Enough time has passed that I suspect this is a permanent change. These days when I decide to go to sleep, I can typically fall asleep within 30 seconds or less. Sometimes I can be asleep within just 2-3 seconds. As Rachelle can attest, this is no exaggeration. This isn’t narcolepsy. This is true for falling asleep at night as well as for taking naps if I so desire. On many occasions I’ve been startled awake while Rachelle and I were lying in bed together. This sometimes happens 2-3 times in a row. When this happens a few times in a row, sometimes I’ll re-enter the same dream and continue where I left off, but usually I’ll enter a different dream that doesn’t seem related to the first dream. This has happened more times that I can count. Normally I start dreaming immediately as I’m falling asleep, sometimes even before I’m asleep.

Kevin Rogers|Direct Response Copywriting Expert|Marketing Consultant|The Copywriter's Edge | Free sales writing tactics proven to increase conversions Fact Sheet: Deviated Septum The shape of your nasal cavity could be the cause of chronic sinusitis. The nasal septum is the wall dividing the nasal cavity into halves; it is composed of a central supporting skeleton covered on each side by mucous membrane. The front portion of this natural partition is a firm but bendable structure made mostly of cartilage and is covered by skin that has a substantial supply of blood vessels. The ideal nasal septum is exactly midline, separating the left and right sides of the nose into passageways of equal size. Estimates are that 80 percent of all nasal septums are off-center, a condition that is generally not noticed. Septoplasty is the preferred surgical treatment to correct a deviated septum. A deviated septum may cause one or more of the following: Blockage of one or both nostrils Nasal congestion, sometimes one-sided Frequent nosebleeds Frequent sinus infections At times, facial pain, headaches, postnasal drip Noisy breathing during sleep (in infants and young children)

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