I don't get much from productivity "tricks". I get excited for a little while, but the excitement wears off a week, maybe a few days later, and I'm back where I started.
The best long-term advice I know is to just do it fucking now. If you have to get up, then get out of the bed and get ready, whether you feel like it or not. It's not what you wanted to hear, but maybe you'll feel better hearing it from Paul Graham:
"But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."
Couldn't agree more, although some of the suggestions make sense.
The best way to get out of bed, and to make it easier, is to have something decent to get out of bed for, and to know that the night before (point 6).
Flight I need to be up at 6am for? No problem getting up at 5.
Exciting day at work? Up at 8 no worries.
Also recognize your internal body clock's desired times (which I suppose is point 1). 1am-9am is my preferred sleep time, and although I can temporarily get around it, it's easier to adapt my schedule. Who wants to feel tired all the time?
I trutly believe (after going through so many such "tricks/hacks") that you can never motivate yourself to enjoy something you "must" do unless you somehow make into something you "want" to do, and then follow it up with specific reasons.
Rather than saying to yourself "I must wake up at 7", why not say "I want to wake up at at 6 so that I can take my time and get ready for work at an easy pace"?
What I'm trying to get at here is that if you find yourself not wanting to do something, or running away from something you "must" do, then there's a real, deeper reason why you feel that way. In the meantime, such "hacks"/etc are only a bandaid solution and you'll be going throught he same cycle over and over again.
The best long-term advice I know is to just do it fucking now. If you have to get up, then get out of the bed and get ready, whether you feel like it or not. It's not what you wanted to hear, but maybe you'll feel better hearing it from Paul Graham:
"But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."