If you oversleep often and want to get rid of this terrible habit, there are two main areas that you need to work on – your habits and your mindset…

Here are the five main steps I suggest you take in order to stop oversleeping:

1. Change the way you think about sleep

If you “love to sleep”, you have to start thinking about sleep as something you must do in order to survive. Nothing more.

Stop making excuses like – “I need more sleep than the average person”. You should be convinced that you can sleep less and have more energy than you have now, which is most likely true.

2. Motivate yourself to stop oversleeping

Oversleeping is like any other addiction, and you have to be highly motivated and absolutely convinced that you WANT to overcome it.

Come up with at least one strong reason WHY you want to sleep less. Be as specific as you can. It might help to write it down and read it to yourself daily.

3. Set (and stick to) a steady sleep schedule

It’s best if you can go to sleep and wake up at the same times every day. At least do you best to wake up at the same time, no matter how long you had slept…

Put the clock away from bed, set a wake up call, ask someone to throw you out of bed, whatever you need to do to make sure you wake up on time.

4. Reduce sleep gradually

If you sleep 10 hours every night, don’t move to 7 hours all at once. Reduce 30-60 minutes every week or so.

Don’t beat yourself up when you fail, because it might only make things worse. Just learn from your mistakes and come up with a plan for the next day.

5. Improve your sleep

The quality of sleep is just as, if not more important than the quantity. There are many simple things you can do to get high quality sleep, which will allow you to get more energy from less sleep.

There is a lot of information (online and offline) about sleep optimization, self motivation and so on. You can do your own research and come up with a plan of action.

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