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i have a job and i usually work mornnings. And that means i have to wake up around 530am. I have a really loud alarm clock but im a hard sleeper and i dont hear it.

It usually has been going off for around 15 - 30 mintues before i actually hear it.

Dont tell me i need to go to bed earlier. i go to bed around 10 pm. And i cant put the alarm right next to my bed because ill end up turning it off.

Anything that will help me get up with the alarm?

I had that problem all through high school and I first few years of college. I finally got it under control now that I work early every morning.

Here's what you can do.

Set your alarm 15-30 minutes earler. I had to set my alarm an hour early sometimes just to assure that I would wake up. Don't put the alarm next to your bed, put it so you have to get up and walk across the room to turn it off. This might make it so it's easier for you to get up.

I would try not to use the snooze button. Try to get up as soon as your turn your alarm off the first time. It will make you less tired in the morning. If you try to get that extra ten or fifteen minutes of sleep, then you'll never want to get up, and you'll be more likely to not be woken up by the alarm the second or third time around

Try getting a new kind of alarm clock. You might be desensitized to the one you've been using. Perhaps if you get a more annoying one, instead of simply a louder one, then it might make you wake up easier.

It also might help if you wake up earlier on your days off. Getting in the habit of waking up early, even if it's not 5:30, but perhaps 8 or 9, will help you wake up at 5:30 on the days that you have to. If you wake up at 5:30 five days a week, but then sleep till noon on the weekends, then you'll be in the habit of sleeping till noon on monday through thursday, and then the cycle will start all over again.

But, if you get used to waking up early-ish every day, then it might get easier with time.

the downfall of this is that it will be harder to sleep in on the days that you really want to sleep in, but, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

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