You know, there was a period in my life when I was waking up at 5:00am every day and I loved it!

你知道嗎，我的人生中曾經有一段時間每天早上五點就起床，而我愛死這種生活作息了！

I would wake up, meditate, write, read, exercise, do my chores, make breakfast, all before noon!

我起床後會冥想、練字、閱讀、運動、做家事、做早餐，而且全都在中午前完成！

It was awesome. I was a productivity machine.

那真的很棒，我簡直就像一台生產力極高的機器。

Unfortunately, it only lasted about 6 months.

可惜這種生活作息只持續了大約六個月。

Until life got a little crazy and I reverted back to my old habits.

直到我的生活開始變得忙碌，我重拾了自己的舊習。

I would sleep in late, and of course I would hit the Snooze button.

我會睡到很晚，當然也會按貪睡鬧鐘。

And hit the Snooze button.

然後不停地按貪睡鈕。

Snooze button. Snooze. Snooze. Snooze.

按貪睡鈕。貪睡、貪睡、貪睡。

I desperately want to get back to waking up early.

我非常希望自己能像過去一樣早起。

So I have been devouring articles for any kind of advice on how to get out of bed.

因此我最近看了不少文章，尋求任何有關如何起床的建議。

And I feel like I've tried everything.

我覺得我似乎試過所有的方法了。

You know, I take melatonin and I lay in bed early.

你知道嗎，我會吃褪黑激素並早早上床。

I put my phone in high places where I can't reach it.

我把手機放在雙手無法觸及的高處。

I've even tried using one of those alarm clocks where you have to shoot it with a toy gun to turn it off.

我甚至試過那種你得用玩具槍射它才能讓它停止作響的鬧鐘。

But every day it's the same story: I wake up. I hit Snooze.

但每天的結果都是一樣的：我醒來，按下貪睡鈕。

And then I go back to bed to cuddle with a cat.

然後我又回到床上跟貓纏綿。

That is until I found this blog by a guy named Steve.

直到我找到了Steve 的的部落格。

This is what you do:

以下是你需要做的事：

When you're getting ready to go to bed, set your morning alarm.

當你準備上床睡覺時，設好早上的鬧鐘。

But also set a bunch of little alarms that will occur over the next 15 to 20 minutes all about 2-3 minutes apart.

但另外設一堆「小鬧鐘」。設定距離現在時間 15 到 20 分鐘後開始響。 每個鬧鐘時間間隔約2到3分鐘。

But try to do it in a way so that you don't remember exactly how many alarms you're setting.

但盡量別去記你總共設了多少個鬧鐘。

Then put your phone out of reach, and go to bed.

然後把手機放到伸手搆不到的地方再上床睡覺。

Now, when your alarms start to go off, act like it's the morning.

現在，當你的鬧鐘開始響時，

Do whatever you do in the morning.

假裝已經是早上了。做些你早上會做的事。

For me, that's getting up, turning off my alarms, stretching, and heading to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

對我來說，那就是起床、按掉鬧鐘、伸懶腰，然後去廁所刷牙。

But, you'll go back to bed.

但做完這些事情後，你得回到床上。

You'll try to fall asleep.

你要試著睡著。

And when the next alarm goes off, you do the same thing.

而當下一個鬧鐘響起時，你再重複一次這個程序。

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

重複、重複、重複。

Eventually, this gets so annoying that every time you lay back down in bed, your body gets sleepier.

最後，這會讓你不堪其擾。每次你重新躺回床上時，你的身體會變得更想睡。

And I personally love that because I have a hard time getting to sleep.

而我個人很喜歡那種感覺因為我很難入睡。

It takes me like 30 minutes to 2 hours of just laying there to even feel sleepy.

通常需要30分鐘到2小時躺在床上試著讓自己變睏。

Somehow this practice kind of like tricks my body into being so annoyed with the mini alarms that eventually I will just end up falling asleep once they're all done until the real alarm kicks in, in the morning.

這個方法讓我的身體因為那些小鬧鐘而惱怒，最後我就會在按掉最後一個小鬧鐘後睡著，直到天亮我真正的鬧鐘響起時。

And before you can even think about it, your body will get up and do whatever it is that you practiced the night before.

而在你還來不及思考之前，你的身體就會自動起床，去做你昨晚練習過的那些事情。

So, if you want to be an early riser,

所以，如果你想要當個早起的人

this technique will be mildly annoying but insanely effective.

這個技巧會令你感到有點煩躁，但非常有效。

You're welcome.

不客氣。

I'm Anna Akana. Stay awesome Gotham.

我是 Anna Akana，繼續活得精采吧，高譚市民。

Oh, and a few announcements.

噢，還有一些事情要宣佈。

I have these live shows coming up, I do stand up improv, and then a little meet and greet afterwards as a thank you for coming and then we can take fun photos,

接下來會有我的這些直播秀播出，我會進行即興脫口秀，最後還會有個小小的見面會感謝你們的到來，我們也可以拍一些有趣的照片，

and I'm usually really sweaty, so just be warned if you're hugging me and I'm sweaty, I'm sorry.

而我通常會出很多汗，所以先警告一下大家如果你要抱我而我全身都是汗的話，我很抱歉。

I also have these short films "Loose Ends" and "Super & Associates."

我還有這些短片「 Loose Ends 」跟「 Super & Associates 」

I'm super proud and I'm super excited and I hope you like them!

我感到非常驕傲也非常興奮，希望你們會喜歡這些短片！

Also, the podcast, Explain Things To Me,

另外還有我的 podcast Explain Things To Me ，

the one where Brad and I interview professionals in various fields is going to be on iTunes only now so you can go to itunes.com/ExplainThingsToMe

我會在節目上跟 Brad 訪問在不同領從事各種職業的人節目將只會在 iTunes 上 所以你可以去 itunes.com/ExplainThingsToMe

and listen to all the cool people that we are interviewing there.

並聽聽那些我們訪問過的超酷來賓。

Finally, people have asked me for Q&A videos and unfortunately I don't really want to do a Q&A video for my channel,

最後，很多人希望我拍 Q&A 影片，我並不想在我的頻道上做 Q&A 影片，

but I will be doing weekly broadcasts on YouNow so here are the dates and times.

但我每週都會在 YouNow 上做廣播，這些是日期跟時間如果你可以來聽，

You can make any of those and you have a question I'm happy to answer anything about short film making or my cats or where I get my cat furnitures or whatever questions you may have.

而你有問題想問我的話，我很樂意回答關於製作短片、 我的貓、或是我去哪裡買貓家具等等或其他任何你可能會有的問題。

That's all for the announcements.

這些就是我要宣布的事情。

Get the fuck out of my house.

滾出我家吧。