My best friend Marquis and me, 2009
I don’t need to tell you how agonizing it is to get up every morning. As if on cue, gravity seems to work double time in your bedroom whenever the sun rises. I can’t promise to eradicate Manic Monday mornings completely but here’s a tip on how to start your day on a good “note” … Get it? Yay!
This isn’t a revolutionary idea, I know, but there is an art in picking out the perfect song to set as your alarm. Well, okay, it’s not exactly art but…
Tips on how to choose your morning songs:
- Don’t choose your favorite song. Remember that experiment psychologist Ivan Pavlov did with the dog and the bell? If you don’t – you’re probably too young, get off the internet. Anyway, if you associate the dreadful death of your delicious dreams with your favorite song of all time, you might end up hating that song. Don’t ruin it!
- Don’t put just one part of a song on loop. My boyfriend once looped the intro of Smashing Pumpkins’ Bullet with Butterfly Wings and for several mornings Billy Corgan woke him with a repetitive reminder that the world is a vampire. My boyfriend was not amused.
- Choose a song that makes you want to move. There are songs that annoy the heck out of us but they undoubtedly make us want to move our feet. Or arms (i.e. wanting to punch the girls who sang Hot Problems).
- Keep your alarm songs on rotation so your mornings are always fresh!
- Don’t stop at alarms. Make a playlist that lasts for the duration of your morning routine (20 mins? An hour?). This not only makes you brush your teeth to a beat but it also makes you aware of how much time you have left before you have to be out the door!
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LOL OMG THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE. Worst song to wake up to hahaha I would be sour-faced the whole day!
Hahahaha!! Diba?? What’s your morning song?:)
My morning song for maybe a year now is Go On Girl by Ne-Yo. Every time I hear the song I feel like it’s my alarm clock ringing and irritates me as much it irritates me every morning. Hahaha
I don’t have a song to share but I have a story to tell:
Every March of the year, we have to wake up before sunset to eat and drink. I have no problem with not eating/drinking the whole day, the problem is that I’m weakened by waking up sooo early. I had no problem waking up myself before, because I lived with my mom and she wakes me up with the breakfast already prepared. And late last year, I had to move to another city for work. So there comes my problem: to be sure to wake up earlier than usual to prepare my food. So yeah, I chose my favorite song as my alarm tone. And to put an end to this already long story, I ended up hating that song. Every time I hear it after that 19 mornings, nasisira mood ko hahaha! Bow. :)
Awesome sauce! Maybe I should do the playlist thingy so I would be motivated to kind of move and all that.
saken wake up song ko “young wild and free by wiz khalifa and snoop dogg”,
waking up so early everyday was hard just to go to my ojt training :(
i’m not sanay pa naman to wake up early ehe :)
Good tips:) My morning/alarm song that was 5 o’clock by T-Pain and set the volume into almost high level. Then when it started to alarmed, the first words/sentence of the lyrics of the song that truly wakes me up and get up in the bed :D
Haha it’s weird, I don’t have that much of a problem waking up. I guess i’m just a morning person. My ultimate morning song Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root. I loved it on the Matilda soundtrack as a kid. :)
Saab, i’m really glad u made this blog post! I have always had trouble waking up in the morning. It’s terrible because I run late most of the time. I always end up praying for fast driving drivers and for a friendly traffic flow. I constantly change songs since my body seem to get used to a song after days. I prefer music with loud intros. I used Muse’s Meant to Live, Starsailor’s Four to the Floor and Muse’s Starlight. Starlight is the ringtone set for my Bebe so if I hear the song playing I fool myself thinking it’s him calling. I also use One Missed Call famous ringtone and Nokia Standard message tone (although I use a Sony Ericsson). That beep beep sound super irritates me.
Clocks Coldplay Rhythms del Mundo:)
My morning song would be Please Don’t Go by Mike Posner. But This week, I found myself listening and grooving to Damn! These Powers by Mikey Bustos. :)) It’s very effective! Hahaha! But, paminsan- minsan hinahatak parin ako ng bed ko. :)))))
got mine from Foster the people but it let me sleep…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz morrrrreeee
Just A Girl by No Doubt made me wanna get up from bed and dance this morning!
Mine is Wannabe by Spice girls !