BONUS: How To Wake Up Early

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🗓️ 7 November 2021

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Waking up at dawn with the bakers and the baristas may not be for everyone — especially night owls. Whether you have to wake up early, or you'd like to become more of a morning lark, here are a few habits that can help you set yourself up for success at that first alarm.

In this episode of NPR's Life Kit, host Kavitha George speaks with early risers who have tips to help adjust one's biological clock.

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0:00.0	Hey, consider this listeners. It's Elsa Chang and we have got a bonus episode for you.
0:05.2	You know, as winter gets closer and the days get colder and shorter, it can be a lot harder
0:10.5	to drag ourselves out of bed to start the day. So as a way to help you all out, our friends
0:16.5	at Impier's Life Kit made an episode all about how to wake up early, even if you are not a
0:23.2	morning person, which totally includes me. Hosts can beat the George takes it from here.
0:31.9	Carla Finley is a baker in Brooklyn, New York who starts her day at 5 or 6 a.m., and she loves it.
0:40.4	Sometimes it's still dark, which is actually I love something about feeling the light come in.
0:47.2	It feels really sacred and it's not like I'm sitting there watching the sunrise, but you can kind
0:53.4	of feel it happen around you. Oh, doesn't that sound great? Of course not everyone feels that way
0:59.8	about waking up early. Emily Gerard is a writer on the Today Show and she often finds herself waking
1:05.7	up at odd hours to prep the show that starts at 7 a.m. When that alarm goes off, I have a few moments
1:12.9	of feeling like I want to die. My name is Kavita George and I am decidedly not a morning person.
1:20.9	As it happens, I'm also the host of Alaska Morning News at the Public Radio Station in
1:26.0	Anchorage, Alaska. And that means I start my work day at 5 a.m. every weekday morning.
1:34.4	Stop. Good morning, world. It's 4.20 a.m. time to get going.
1:40.4	Early mornings in Alaska are actually pretty tolerable in the summer when it's light out nearly
1:47.6	all of the time. When I started this job in June, I'd wake up greeted by the sunrise and it would
1:53.2	be fully daylight by the time I got to work at 5 a.m. But these days and for the next six months,
1:59.2	it's tough to wake up in the dark and head to work in the cold knowing that daytime is still several
2:05.4	hours away. I was kind of the worst part of my day. I'm worried that no matter how long I do this,
2:13.5	it's always going to feel a little jarring when I wake up this early. Anyways, time to get going.
2:21.2	I've paired my morning routine down to the bare bones to conserve every ounce of sleep I have.
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