Step #2: Move Your Alarm Clock Across The Room If you haven’t already, move your alarm clock across the room.
This forces you to get out of bed and engage your body in movement.
Motion creates energy, so when you get up and out of bed it naturally
helps you wake up.
If you keep your alarm clock next to your bed, then you are still
in a partial sleep-state when the alarm goes off, and it makes it much
more difficult to wake yourself up. I’m sure you can probably relate
to rolling over—still half-asleep—and turning the alarm clock off
without even realizing that it went off. I know that on many occasions
I’ve even convinced myself that my alarm clock was merely part of
the dream I was having.
Simply forcing yourself to get out of bed to turn off the alarm
clock will instantly take your Wake Up Motivation Level from a
WUML-1, to a WUML-2 or WUML-3. However, you’ll still likely be
feeling more sleepy than not. So...
