LPT: to ensure you get up early and don't go back to bed, put your phone/alarm clock into a bag/backpack/a big decorative Christmas sock along with the mementoes that remind you what keeps you going and why. Put the bag/backpack/sock as far away from your bed as possible.

Submitted by glas_s_cutter t3_10owdbi in LifeProTips

Update: Clarification: set your alarm sound to max, put the bag(it can be just a plastic bag)/backpack/sock as far away from your bed in your room as possible, so that you need to get up to get to the phone/alarm clock. As for the role of mementoes, when you are groggy trying to snooze the alarm and then touch an item that associates with something important to you, be it your values, dreams or quotes - whichever - it helps you reason with your sleepy self to not to go back to bed.

This lpt is not bulletproof, but it increases your chances of not going back to bed.

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cgg419 t1_j6h7j07 wrote

Instructions unclear. Put bag in the other end of the house, as far away as I could, then couldn’t hear the alarm.

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spmute t1_j6h7rj7 wrote

Then I wouldn’t hear it lol. I’m kinda deaf but I’m all seriousness this sounds kind of cool, no idea if it would work

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pplanes0099 t1_j6h935p wrote

I can just see myself shoving mementos aside and hitting on the snooze button

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twohedwlf t1_j6h9785 wrote

LPT: To ensure you get up early and don't go back to bed, when your alarm goes off fucking get up.

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glas_s_cutter OP t1_j6h9qd5 wrote

Replying to cgg419 (#1,607,483)

i did, right, because of your comment, but i still think that it is obvious in the original post that you should not place your alarm in the other part of your house/apartment. i mean, why would you do it given the context

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me_not_at_work t1_j6h9srw wrote

Grabs bag. Swings violently to smash contents. Back to sleep. Wake up late. Miss interview. Don't get job. Curses OP.

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glas_s_cutter OP t1_j6hacio wrote

Replying to cgg419 (#1,607,545)

well don't try to mask your immature toxicity with mock nonchalance. you don't agree with something and see how it can be improved, give your reason, if you do, show appreciation. this is 2 lpts for the price of one for you fella

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glassdoorknob75 t1_j6hdfpl wrote

In my case keeping seeing my important concepts (silly but let's call them that) in a hurry, or purposefully with the idea of making myself feel something, can actually have the opposite effects.

Had a summer where I brought a device with me on long, early transport to a place I didn't want to be, to have something to listen to, and after that ended it took forever till I don't feel nauseated seeing the device.

I expect things are not entirely the same though, because it wasn't a job or school where I could at least get something out of like money and dopamine kicks. Curious what is making this happen :(

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Orxanga t1_j6ki9ie wrote

Never forget what you're fighting for

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