I recently had a sit down discussion with my boss (owner) who was like, "look man, I cannot let you come in late anymore" because I am late EVERY FUCKING DAY. Sometimes it's five minutes, sometimes it's two hours, but it's all due to lack of discipline. I would have been fired a year ago anywhere else, but he needs me so he's kept me, but he's become so frustrated with my tardiness that he's actually started looking for someone else.

That was three weeks ago and I have only been late once since then. It's 100% discipline based, I still sleep <3 hours some nights, I just GTFU when I'm supposed to and stop hitting the snooze button. It sucks, but once you get up, you'll be straight.

Force yourself to get up early one morning and see if you have trouble going to sleep that night

Stop being children and man the fuck up.

This reminded me of OP

Do you snore loud when you sleep. You may have sleep apnea or some other sleep disorder that keeps you from getting "restful" sleep. You may ask your doctor and they can set up a sleep study for you. I was the same way for like 10 years and then I found out I had apnea. Got a CPAP machine and it changed my life. Now I can wake up feeling rested even after 4-5 hours of sleep. Look into it.

pills because you can't wake up in the mornings? gimme a break.

What you've got to realize is that nobody wakes up easily. It's just a fact of life that you have to deal with. You don't need medications or "wake up aids." You just need to get stop thinking you're any different from anyone else.

The way I see it, the first five minutes suck. But once you're past that, it's smooth sailing from there, regardless if I have 3.5 hours or 8 hours sleep.

One thing that might help is to find something you do in the morning immediately after waking up. For some people, it hopping right into the shower. For others, it's making coffee and reading the newspaper. For me, I need at least 10-20 minutes in front of the TV or the Internet. I cannot get right into a shower.

But stop thinking you have some sleep disorder. It's a natural occurrence to feel really shitty when getting up in the morning.

+1 with giga.

I hate waking up early. I would love to get 12 hours of sleep each night, but thats not gonna happen. Alarm goes off in the morning and I just get out of bed and half hour later I feel good. Get used to it.

i don't think its that being awake sucks when you first wake up, its just that laying there and going back to sleep would feel sooooo good.

my advice - watch your caffeine intake in the evening/night. if you can go to sleep a little earlier you could get use to waking up a little earlier.

you could always make some sort of device like bruno's dildo bike, and every minute u sleep past the alarm the dildo moves towards your ass.

That should scare the shit out of you every morning into waking up.

i have the same problem and thats why i play poker fulltime...late nights and as much sleep as i want

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drink a bunch of water before you go to bed

not pissing the bed is pretty strong motivation to get up (for most people)

use your cell phone as your primary alarm. also set an actual alarm clock on the other side of the room. it'll force u to get up.

5 minutes vigorous activity should set you up for the day. Fortunately, this can easily be achieved whilst still lying in bed!