Becoming a morning person

SO when it comes to getting up early in the mornings, I just don't do it.  I've managed it a few times once I worked at a Credit Union and had to be at work at 5:45 because we opened the drive thru at 6AM.  Another time is because I had a puppy and I needed bonding time with her before I was at work all day and then of course when my kids were babies sleep just didn't happen. So I was up early but I always would go back to bed for a bit.  I have been night owl since I was very little. Like I would wait up in my crib for my Dad to get home from working swing shift and hang out with him. If I go to sleep before 11PM I feel like it is to early.  Researching how to become a morning person. One article I read said to get up 15 mins earlier for a week and each week until you reach the desired wake up time.  Yeah for me to do that I would need 5 weeks. O_O  I have found another article on sparks people (read it HERE) And it had some good rules my favorites are:

1. Plan ahead. Each night before I go to bed, I make sure everything I need for the next day is ready to go: breakfast, lunch, and water bottle in the fridge; laptop case and purse by the door; gym bag is stocked with extra clothes, shoes, and toiletries. Even if I oversleep by a few minutes, I don't need to scramble to track down everything I need.
2. No distractions. I scan my email when I turn off my alarm each morning but I don't respond to anything that's not an emergency until I get to the office. I don’t open my laptop, and I don't own a TV, so I'm not tempted to lose track of time that way. I learned the hard way one morning when I logged on to my laptop for "just a minute" and ended up being 30 minutes late to practice. (It's an open studio, so you do a self-paced practice with staggered start times.)

I think that these two things can really help me out.  It is so easy to get derailed in the morning if we have to look for our work out clothes or running behind because of needing to pack lunches. Now I don't go to the gym I just go into our office where I keep my work out stuff. But I still think even knowing what I am going to where to work that day helps keep your mind on the task of working out. There is no concern about having to figure out what to where to work it is just all set to go. The second one I liked the most was No Distractions.  If we are all honest with our selves our alarm goes off and if we don't hit the snooze button we pick up our phone and check social media and email.  Social media is our equivalent to reading the paper. It is where most of us get our news from.  I once did a activity journal. I just logged the activity the start time and end time.  Trying to be honest about it and not change what my routine was because I wanted it to be truthful. It was a little shameful.  The amount of time I end up on the computer, phone surfing is crazy.   Anyways, so the whole turn off the alarm and get up and stay unplugged from wifi. Put my music on and get moving.

I have shared my goal of getting up at 5:45 in the morning starting the first week of Nov with the husband. He leaves for work between 5:15 & 5:30. So I asked him if he could just call me around 5:45 in the morning although I wish he just left later so that he could drag me physically out of bed. Well he thought that was the better idea. He thinks it would be to easy for me to hang up and go back to sleep. He knows me SO well. ;-)

So the plan will be he will be getting me out of bed to walk him to the door. That way I am up and walking then go back get my work out clothes on and start my work out.  I am thinking running day will also be leg day, then the next day bike and upper body. Then the one day I don't get up early I hope to do Yoga.  All this organization to accomplish this should help with my diet as well. I am hoping my new schedule will be a good thing.