While you're sleeping, your brain is deciding what's an important stimulus and what's not. To psych it into wakefulness, you need to mimic the same rush you feel on the morning of a great road trip or a hot date. Buy a CD after work, but don't listen to it until your morning shower. Your rough mornings may have more to do with mental roadblocks than with a lack of physical arousal. Maybe it's a dreadful job or a dissolving relationship.
Anxiety can cause people to linger beneath the bedclothes after they wake up.
Take 20 minutes at the end of the workday to clear your desk, and nail your errands so you can start your workday clean. Third-period kickball, that's why. Even if the rest of the day consisted of diagramming sentences and reciting multiplication tables, there was always the allure of the big game. Interacting with others can be almost as exciting as the activity itself, says Salamon. Maybe a Friday-morning breakfast with the boys, or one day a week that your work group tries a new restaurant for lunch.