Tips to avoid oversleeping :Don’t Sleep through Your Alarm

Tips to avoid oversleeping: Don’t Sleep through Your Alarm

Falling in love with sleep isn’t a good idea

Sleep within the 7 to 9 hours range

Have a planned day to wake up to

Optimize and practice a wake-up routine

Waking up is hard to do. If you struggle to get out of bed in the morning, you’re not alone—and probably not getting enough sleep, either. Most of us require seven to nine hours of sleep per night, and failing to get that only results in problems—including oversleeping. I do it. You do it. We all do it. Even celebrities do it. Oversleeping gives you panicked wake-ups, hurried mornings, and angry bosses. This madness has to be stopped!

Wake up and aroma the coffee

You won’t miss important moments in your life, either, if you follow these tips for avoiding oversleeping:

The night before: Limit caffeine and alcohol intake, and power off electronics one hour prior to bedtime. Engage in a predictable, relaxing, and reproducible bedtime routine to help transition your body and mind from wake to sleep. If you are a coffee drinker, set an auto timer on your coffee maker—the aroma of coffee in the morning will help wake you.

Go to bed on time: Make getting sufficient sleep a priority, and make sure your regular bedtime allows for adequate sleep. If you’re sleep-deprived, you will have longer, deeper sleep periods, making it especially difficult to wake up on time. Keep bed and wake times as consistent as possible    

 Have a Sleep Schedule

A regular sleep schedule makes it easier for your body to wake up and go to sleep each night. Your body has a natural sleep cycle that helps you wake up in the morning. If you wake up at different times each morning, this body clock can’t fine-tune the right time of waking you up. But, when you’ve got a good sleep schedule, you wake up full of energy in the morning.

Oversleeping can be a real problem and the effects may be worse than you might have thought. Once you’ve cured it though, as long as you stick to the changes, oversleeping will be a thing of the past.

Optimize Your Wake up Routine

Set your alarm to go off at a time when you’ve had 7 to 9 hours of sleep; not before not after. In case, you have to wake up really early the next morning, make it a point to go to bed earlier the last night.

And as soon as you wake up, open the curtains and natural light fill your room. This will give your body a natural rhythm and motivation to stay awake and see the beautiful day coming. Early morning sunlight also stops melanin, a hormone that makes you sleepy.

Practice optimizing your wake up routine daily to the point where waking up becomes a completely automatic response to the sound of your alarm.

Plan your Day Correctly

When you have your day planned, you have a good reason to get up on time. And when nothing is planned “what’s the point of getting up” overpowers your intentions to wake up.

Create a task list for the following day before going to bed each day. As you take a look at it the next thing in the morning, you’ll have plenty of reasons to not snooze that alarm off.

If you have nothing to do, well that’s worse. You must find out things you can do. Start a new project, find new clubs and activities that interest you, discover what you want to do in life and find out what you can to do to achieve it.

You could simply head down to your state library and read books. They might help in discovering your purpose in life. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so allow yourself to take things one step at a time.