Sleep Hacking
I'm a morning person. Today like most days, I got up at 6am. My body just wakes up naturally. I haven't used my alarm clock in months.
At the start of the year after I sold my first startup, I gave myself a little more freedom than I should have. Waking up at noon, going to bed at 4am - all the while working on projects, but at the same time kidding myself into thinking that by living outside a normal sleeping pattern I was giving myself "time to really create, man".
In retrospect I achieved less than I do now, going to bed and waking up at times one would consider normal.
However, there is a difference between dragging yourself out of bed at 6am bleary eyed and incoherent, and being able to just stand up and walk out of bed at 6am and start working. I owe the ability to do the latter to a Sleep Hack, and here it is:
Don't close your curtains.
Or blinds, if you have those.
I simply leave my blinds open at all times. I wake up when the sun comes up. No need for a shrieking alarm clock to lurch me from my bed. Consequently, by the time midnight rolls around, I'm ready to go to bed. But that's ok with me, I'm a morning person.
