Let me be clear – I am NOT a morning person – I am not naturally chipper and chirpy before I’ve been awake for an hour or so, but I do know that how you’re woken up makes a big difference to how you feel. One of my biggest rants in life is about the utter moron who thought waking up to an incessant “beep! Beep! Beep!” was a good idea! Seriously, who the fuck wants to wake up like that?
For years, I would be jarred out of sleep by this awful, offensive noise, already in a foul mood because A I’d been woken up, and B I’d been woken up in such a rude and objectionable way. Bah! Cue the morning grumps.
As I say, I’m no morning person at the best of times BUT wake me up with something that doesn’t set my teeth on edge and annoy me before I’m even fully awake and I’m a much nicer person to be around. My preference is to wake up naturally – when I’ve had enough sleep, or my bladder needs emptying, I’ll wake up all by myself.
Sometimes that’s not practical as I have to be up at the crack of a sparrow’s fart. On those days, I have a CD alarm (the greatest invention of the last 300 years!) with music I like. Not some fecking annoying DJ who’s far too cheerful at asleep o’clock in the morning (there’s nothing worse to a non-morning person than a chirpy morning person).
Seriously, morning people, rein in your chirpiness in the morning around us non-morning people – you may not understand us, but that will not stop us hitting you with a chair! Ahem, anyway, where was I?
Ah yes, music I like. Here’s how I make up my CD (or playlist if you’re very modern and hip and cool):
The first song is a nice, mellow, lovely song to gently coax me out of sleep…and soothing enough that I can get an extra 3-4 minutes kip if necessary. From there, the music gets progressively more upbeat, until we get to the likes of Beyonce, the Spice Girls (hey, we’ve established before, I am not cool!) and the Black Eyed Peas (who can stay in bed when Crazy In Love/Spice Up Your Life/Pump It comes on the stereo?).
Alakazam, I’m up! And I’m relatively cheerful and loving life. I’m still a grouch – like I say, I’m not a morning person, but I am not livid at having been disagreeably awakened.
As you can see, I’m pretty passionate about this – what I’m saying is wake up in the best way for you – in a way that allows you to wake up feeling good, not in a way that starts the day off with a racing heart and violently smashing your alarm clock to pieces on your mind.
Let me know in the comments below how you wake up loving life.
Love
Donna.x
PS This article is an excerpt from my fabulous book “Fall in Love With Life” – for more details and to buy, click here.