Thanks for the comments. It’s good to hear that we’re not alone with this. I really struggle with it and I always thought that everyone else found it a doddle to get up early, now I don’t feel so isolated.

If anyone has any other great ideas to get going in the morning then please share them it would be GREAT to hear them.

I’m not great at getting up early, this combined with my inability to actually sleep well at all meant my getting up time was all over the place

At the start of the year I made a specific effort to have a positive mindset when I woke instead of the negatives you mention above and it’s done the trick for me – I’m usually in the office between 7 and 7.30 at the moment and I even managed swimming this week – though that failed because of my knee!

Here’s what gets me going:

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2008/06/10/american_innovative_neverlate_executive_7_day_alarm_clock/