Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself?

Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself? by TheAnimus on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:44PM (#6122190)

Adequate sleep, ensuring I get up with daylight. Okay so they aren't motivations per say, but without them I suffer, my creativity suffers and my ability to actually do work suffers greatly.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself? by kevutu on Monday July 29, 2013 @01:56PM (#6122720)

what time do you wake up?, how many hours do you sleep? any strategies for waking up?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself? by TheAnimus on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @07:38AM (#6126304)

>any strategies for waking up?

Light.

These things are personal, but it is something that helps me. I used to use a standard SAD alarm clock by Phillips, but have since put some Hue light bulbs in my room. I have blackout curtains and the bulbs I have programmed to turn on via a little process on my server, I've been experimenting with ripples and which frequencies to use best, but haven't got nearly enough data yet.

I generally try to always wake up at 7am. The hours of sleep depend on exercise and how tired I felt in the morning (never think at 11pm oh I feel fine!).

Diet mixed with that helps, generally I won't eat after 8pm, unless I'm staying up late!

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