Help getting up on time [Archive] - Telltale Games Forums

GeorgeC

01/17/2011, 07:06 am

I'm having a bit of a problem and was wondering if anyones got any tips that actually work and I can stick to.

Basically I have to be at work for 7:30 AM every weekday, and I wake up at 6:50 AM, which gives me plenty of time to drive to work.
The only problem is when my alarm goes off, I either subconcsiouslly fall asleep again, or cant even force myself to get up until the very last minute (in which case I am marginally late for work, which is not good)

Does anyone know any tricks, tips or whatever that will actaully make me want to get up, and that I can stick to? I dont know what caused it, but I used to get up for work the minute my alarm went off a couple years back, and even have time for breakfast and a read.

Recently I'm so slow at it.

Little help :(

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 07:47 am

Put your alarm on the other side of the room. You have to get up to turn it off.

GeorgeC

01/17/2011, 07:50 am

Put your alarm on the other side of the room. You have to get up to turn it off.

Now why on earth didn't I think of that, I shall try it and REPORT BACK THE RESULTS IN A 20 PAGE ESSAY.

Kidding, but thanks!

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 07:52 am

You better be kidding. I want a 30 page, with a maximum word count of ten.

GeorgeC

01/17/2011, 07:54 am

you better be kidding. I want a 30 page, with a maximum word count of ten.

big letters!

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 07:56 am

big letters!

... in a size 12, Times New Roman, font, single spaced.

GeorgeC

01/17/2011, 07:58 am

... In a size 12, times new roman, font, single spaced.

b i g l e t t e r s

Irishmile

01/17/2011, 08:11 am

Drink a bunch of water before you go to bed so when you wake you have to get up to use the bathroom.

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 08:12 am

Drink a bunch of water before you go to bed so when you wake you have to get up to use the bathroom.

I'm not sure if this is brilliant or what...

Secret Fawful

01/17/2011, 08:16 am

Drink a bunch of water before you go to bed so when you wake you have to get up to use the bathroom.

NO. That's an awful way to get up. The alarm clock idea works wonders.

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 08:19 am

NO. That's an awful way to get up. The alarm clock idea works wonders.

Did Fawful just post an honest, not crude, on topic, useful, and commendable post? Am I dead?

coolsome

01/17/2011, 08:20 am

Drink a bunch of water before you go to bed so when you wake you have to get up to use the bathroom.

Simpsons did it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1cGiEw5yLo)

Secret Fawful

01/17/2011, 08:22 am

Did Fawful just post an honest, not crude, on topic, useful, and commendable post? Am I dead?

I do it all the time, yet people are always surprised.

RetroVortex

01/17/2011, 08:27 am

My tips:

Try to always use the same alarm. Body will begin to adapt to it. Make sure its pretty loud too.
I generally have mine right next to my head. (But also sometimes I have it on charge across the room)
Have a drink of water before bed. (I always need the bathroom when I wake up!)
Try not to go to bed too late.
Have an annoying little brother programmed to wake you up in the morning, (okay maybe that ones just for me...)

TomPravetz

01/17/2011, 08:32 am

I put my phone right next to me, and my clock on the other side of the room. My phone wakes me up. My clock gets me out of bed.

JedExodus

01/17/2011, 08:54 am

I leave the curtains open at night so sunlight can pore through. It's not much help at 6:10 in the AM at this time of year, but maybe it's lighter at ten to seven.

Alarm on the other side of the room's another one I use, tried and tested by you all.

Can't abide mornings though, unless I get time for a shower instead of having one the night before. Then I glide through the rest of the day, giving colleagues at work the fingerguns and such

Giant Tope

01/17/2011, 09:07 am

Slightly fancier variation of the "across the room" technique includes this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/) and this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/).

GeorgeC

01/17/2011, 09:22 am

Slightly fancier variation of the "across the room" technique includes this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/) and this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/).

Good lord :eek:

Irishmile

01/17/2011, 09:23 am

Simpsons did it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1cGiEw5yLo)

LOL yeah that is where I got it from.

doodo!

01/17/2011, 01:32 pm

Yeah...I know it's wrong but that's totally not where I went with this thread...

Ribs

01/17/2011, 01:56 pm

I reccomend using every single method listed. 5 Alarms, all at different places in the room, in addition to 4 liters of liquid right before bed.

jeeno0142

01/17/2011, 01:58 pm

I reccomend using every single method listed. 5 Alarms, all at different places in the room, in addition to 4 liters of liquid right before bed.

This would probably get you up way before the alarms go off.

mgrant

01/17/2011, 02:22 pm

I put my phone right next to me, and my clock on the other side of the room. My phone wakes me up. My clock gets me out of bed.

I do this, but in reverse. My travel alarm clock is right next to my bed, and my phone is on the bookshelf across the room, set fifteen minutes after my regular alarm.

Gman5852

01/17/2011, 06:21 pm

Have an annoying dashund programmed to wake you up 5 hours ahead of time just so you can pick her up, after which she will cry for her teddy kangaroo that you will have to find and get it for her and she might be quiet. (okay maybe that ones just for me...)

Works wonders.

GuruGuru214

01/17/2011, 06:45 pm

I set five different alarms on my phone, five to ten minutes apart each, all with different ringtones, followed by the alarm feature on my iPod stereo. The different ringtones let me know how many alarms I've gone through, and the stereo is the loudest. I'm notoriously difficult to wake up, so this method draws it out over plenty of time to drag my ass out of bed.

WarpSpeed

01/17/2011, 06:52 pm

I think there are alarm clocks out there that resemble baseballs, basketballs, etc. When they go off, you can throw them across the room to silence them, then go back to sleep. Except they go off again in a few minutes, and then you have to get up and find out where you threw them to turn them off.

Not recommended if you have breakable objects, roommates across the room, etc.

Surely Telltale could come up with some product idea to solve this problem once and for all. Maybe a Max clock that insults you until you smack it.

VeronicanPlay

01/17/2011, 11:10 pm

My mum bought me an alarm clock that looks and sounds like a siren, with blinking lights.
I just don't use it as my phone gets me up just fine.
Unless it doesn't go off for some strange reason, which is the reason my mum got me the alarm clock. :P

So try getting a really annoying and loud alarm clock.
But I can't come up with any other tricks than what's already been mentioned.
But the across the room trick works wonders. :)

GuruGuru214

01/17/2011, 11:20 pm

Well, if we're going down the loud alarm clock route, here's one as loud as a jackhammer, with an included bed shaker. (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/?pfm=Search&t=sonic%20bomb)

By the way, I have the less fancy version of this clock (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9bac/), but I haven't used it in a couple years.

Vainamoinen

01/17/2011, 11:23 pm

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/825/vsroom.jpg

It works. Most of the time.

JedExodus

01/18/2011, 08:44 am

Yeah...I know it's wrong but that's totally not where I went with this thread...

He's talking about erections everyone, jsyk. I can decipher his fanciful riddles and rhetoric after I near broke my ankle in the middle of the road and had a near death experience

LuigiHann

01/21/2011, 08:01 pm

I put my phone right next to me, and my clock on the other side of the room. My phone wakes me up. My clock gets me out of bed.

I came in to say the same thing. It works pretty well, although I tend to go through 4 or 5 snooze cycles before I actually stay out of bed.