How To Wake Up Early, Even If You're Not A Morning Person

Life Kit

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's life kit.
0:02.4	Carla Finley is a baker in Brooklyn, New York,
0:05.1	who starts her day at 5 or 6 a.m., and she loves it.
0:11.0	Sometimes it's still dark, which is actually I love.
0:14.2	Something about feeling the light come in.
0:18.4	It feels really sacred, and it's not like I'm sitting there watching the sunrise,
0:23.3	but you can kind of feel it happen around you.
0:26.2	Ugh, doesn't that sound great? Of course, not everyone feels that way about waking up early.
0:31.9	Emily Gerard is a writer on the Today Show,
0:34.5	and she often finds herself waking up at odd hours to prep the show that starts at 7 a.m.
0:39.9	When that alarm goes off, I have a few moments of feeling like I want to die.
0:46.4	My name is Kavita George, and I am decidedly not a morning person.
0:51.4	As it happens, I'm also the host of Alaska Morning News at the Public Radio Station in Anchorage, Alaska.
0:58.0	And that means I start my work day at 5 a.m. every weekday morning.
1:05.0	Stop.
1:07.0	Ugh, good morning, world.
1:09.0	It's 4.20 a.m. time to get going.
1:13.0	Early mornings in Alaska are actually pretty tolerable in the summer,
1:17.0	when it's light out nearly all of the time.
1:19.4	When I started this job in June, I'd wake up greeted by the sunrise,
1:23.4	and it would be fully daylight by the time I got to work at 5 a.m.
1:27.1	But these days, and for the next six months,
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