4 Specific Strategies That Can Help You Get Out Of Bed

It’s a lot easier to get out of bed if we know how to.

Saarim Aslam
Curious

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It happens most days: the alarm rings, we struggle to open our eyes and we start tapping away at our phone to find the snooze button. All we want to do is close our eyes and rest for a few more minutes.

The alarm keeps going off and before we know it, we rush out of bed because we’re going to be late.

Our mornings are often accompanied by a fight with our alarm clock. It goes off and we want to silence it for a while to get more sleep. It goes off again and the same thing happens.

All this does is make us more tired and increase our stress levels in the morning.

But what would it look like if we could get out of bed with ease? No back and forth with our alarm clock, no thoughts about wanting to lie in bed for an extra 15 minutes and not rushing in the morning because we’re running late.

Here are four strategies that may help you do just that.

1. Use Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule

This rule is so simple yet so effective. And it literally involves counting down from five to one.

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Saarim Aslam
Curious

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