We have a whole guide on waking up early without being tired that you can read by clicking the link, which goes into far more depth than we will here.

But at a high level, there are four major things you can do to wake up early for school and not be tired.

Control Your Lighting

Lighting controls our internal clocks that make melatonin, the chemical that makes you feel sleepy at night time.

Back in the day before we had screens and lights, the white light from the sun told our bodies to stop making melatonin so we'd wake up and have energy during the day.

But when the sun went down, and the white light went away, our bodies started making melatonin which made us sleepy. 

Nowadays our bodies are blasted with white light all the time, even after the sun goes down, which messes with our internal sleep clocks.

Most people use their phone, computer, television, etc. way after dark, not to mention all of the white lights in everyone's houses beaming down on us at all times. 

If you want to wake up early before school without feeling tired, you need to get enough, quality sleep, and a big part of that has to do with your environment's lighting.

Stop using electronics at least an hour before bed, and keep your blinds open at night to let natural light in when the sun rises. You can also buy special curtains that open when the sun rises, so you naturally wake up and feel awake.

Avoiding light at night time will help you fall asleep on time, and letting natural light in your room when you wake up will help you feel more awake throughout the day, as opposed to using an alarm clock. 

If you don't have a window in your room like me, you can buy a special alarm clock with a light that gets brighter over time to simulate a sunrise. 

Use Your Bed for Sleep 

Using your bed for sleep, and only sleep is crucial. Most people like to use their phone, watch TV, and even eat in their bed, but it's a big mistake that makes it hard to wake up early.

Our brains associate habits with queues that make you crave the thing that becomes a habit. So if you always browse your phone while laying in bed, your brain will start craving your phone every time you lay down, which makes it hard to get quality sleep.

Rather than going to bed easily and on time, you'll end up laying in bed for an hour or more, browsing your phone, which means you go to bed late and feel tired in the morning.

But even after you get off of your phone, it's harder for your body to sleep because you've exposed yourself to a bunch of light, which is problematic for your sleep schedule. 

Instead, use your phone, watch TV, eat, etc. in another room and only use your bed for sleep. You'll then associate other rooms with work or entertainment, and your bed becomes associated with sleeping.

This way, when you want to go to bed early so you can wake up early before school, all you have to do is lay down in your bed and you'll fall right asleep.

If you can't fall asleep immediately, there's no harm in reading before bed because it's far less stimulating than watching TV or using your phone, and you'll feel yourself growing tired quickly after you open the book. 

Get Enough Sleep

I know this is obvious but the importance of getting enough sleep cannot be overstated. If you want to wake up early for school without getting tired, you need to get enough sleep the night before. 

Without enough sleep, no other tips or tricks will help you wake up early before school without feeling tired. Even drinking EarlyBird won't help you. Get enough sleep!

Drink EarlyBird

If you're like me, you've tried waking up early before school many times, but you always end up feeling tired and can't make the habit stick.

I had the exact same problem. I knew waking up early was important to be more productive, but I'm naturally a night owl and hated waking up early.

That is, until I discovered EarlyBird. On one hand, it's just a morning cocktail that mixes with water. But on the other hand, it's the key to waking up early before school, without feeling tired. 

You see, there are 3 keys to waking up early: hydration, energy, and mood.

Without being hydrated in the morning, you're going to be groggy, grumpy, and unable to fully wake up. Making sure you hydrate right when you wake up is imperative if you want to go to school without feeling tired.

Next, you need to give your body fast-acting, long-lasting energy. Trying to wake up without giving your body proper energy is like trying to start a car that's been sitting in the cold all night. Not a great idea. 

Lastly, you need to enhance your mood. Your morning mood has been shown to impact the rest of the day, hence the saying "someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed."

EarlyBird was engineered to fix all three issues in one drink using 3 proprietary blends:

• Supercharged Hydration blend: special, high-quality electrolytes deliver the hydration your body needs to function optimally (supercharged water)
• Clean energy blend: A unique blend of green coffee bean extract, antioxidants, L-Theanine, and more that eliminate the thought of hitting snooze and delivers clean, long-lasting energy to easily carry you through the morning and beyond
• Be Happy Blend - lifts your mood with Ashwagandha, Theobromine, and Neurofactor that put you into a great mood without the sugar

And since you're reading this blog post, you can try EarlyBird today!

If you're the kind of person who is always prepared for everything, your ideal wakeup time will differ immensely from a procrastinator who likes to sleep until the last minute. 

I usually fell into the category of sleeping until 15 minutes before school started, and then rushing there each morning, barely arriving on time or being late. 

But I always knew it would've been better if I'd prepared more, and towards the end of my school career, I'd actually wake up early before school. 

So if you want to start being more productive in the morning and waking up early before school, two hours was usually enough for me. 

I'd take fifteen to thirty minutes to wake up and get dressed before the morning workout. Taking 30 minutes then to work out always worked for me, even if it was just walking outside for a bit to loosen my body and energize for the day.

Next, I'd come home, shower, and change into clean clothes for school, which took another 15 minutes. Then you can reserve 30-45 minutes for breakfast, and any last minute studying before a test.

As a side note, you shouldn't rely solely on last minute studying in the morning before a test, because it's always best to prepare in advance. But if you want more tips on waking up early to study in the morning, check out our article about it by clicking here. 

Lastly, you can use the remaining 15 minutes to make your way to school, whether you're driving there or walking in college. 

When I was a teenager, waking up early was not in my vocabulary. But over the years I've grown to love my early morning routine, with the help of my cheat code to waking up at 5 AM, EarlyBird (more on that later). 

Anyway, most teenagers I know also hate waking up early as I did, and there's actually a biological reason why teenagers have trouble in the morning. 

But for the sake of this article, I'm going to share a few tips to help teenagers wake up early. 

1. Hydration 

First of all, teenagers need to hydrate first thing in the morning. When your body isn't hydrated, you can experience a ton of terrible side effects. Kick-start your morning as a teenager by skipping coffee and drinking a glass of water instead.

Or, have a glass of EarlyBird, which mixes with water and has electrolytes to help you hydrate even faster. 

2. Internal Clock 

You need your internal clock to be on track with your desired sleep schedule. The light from your phone and the sun in the window both have a tremendous effect on your clock. 

Set a time for bed every night based on your desired wake-up time, and stick to it. Turn off electronics at least an hour before bed, as to not interfere with your internal clock. The blue light from your phones messes with your sleep schedule, not to mention the fact that it's easy to stay up for hours on your phone, way past your bedtime.

And lastly, open your blinds first thing in the morning to let the natural light in your room, which will wake you up.

Repeat this process and before you know it you'll be on track to waking up early without feeling tired. 

3. Alarm Clock  

I liked to use an alarm clock that would shake my bed using a motor that would vibrate intensely. You just place it under your mattress and when it goes off, your entire bed is moving. Definitely wakes you up.

On top of that, I'd put the alarm itself across the room so I'd have to get out of bed to turn it off. Using your phone alarm and keeping it in your bed is a death sentence - you'll wake up, turn your alarm off without getting out of bed, and fall asleep again. 

Forcing yourself to wake up and get out of bed is far more effective. 

4. Don't derail your schedule

Especially if you're in college, it's easy to set up a routine for yourself throughout the week where you wake up early, only to ruin it by getting hammered Saturday night and sleeping until 2 PM on Sunday.

If you want to wake up early, you need to make it a lifestyle where you do it every morning. It takes a few days to get into the habit of waking up early, maybe even a few weeks.

So if you start waking up early for only a few days, and then sleep until 2 PM, you've just undone all of your hard work earlier in the week. 

5. Drink EarlyBird 

The tips above will help you wake up early as a teenager, but if you want to know the fastest, easiest way to start waking up early for school, drinking EarlyBird every morning is definitely your best bet.

Before I started drinking EarlyBird, my mornings were dreadful, but now that I drink EarlyBird every morning, I easily wake up before the sun every morning without feeling sleepy later in the day. 

If you want to wake up early and get sh*t done before school, you can click here to try EarlyBird today.

Our bodies are impacted by the environment around us, and our circadian rhythm is no different. 

First, you need to go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every morning if you want to wake up early for school without an alarm clock. Your body will get into the habit of waking up naturally at a certain time, making it much more likely you'll wake up without an alarm.

But on top of that, planning how you'll wake up in the morning is crucial.

Natural light is one of the best ways to wake up naturally, without an annoying alarm clock. You can buy curtains that will automatically open at a specified time to let natural light enter your bedroom, waking you up from your slumber without an alarm clock.

If you don't have a window in your room or you want to wake up early before the sun rises, like in the winter time, you can also buy an alarm clock that simulates natural light from a sunrise.

It'll slowly get brighter as if the sun were rising in your window, until it reaches its full brightness when you're awake. I have one in my room because I don't have a window and it's absolutely amazing. 

First of all, get more sleep. I've made this mistake more times than I can count so I can tell you first hand, trying to function with little sleep is a terrible idea for your brain, body, and everyone you encounter that day. 

There's no excuse to sacrifice your sleep. Make it happen.

But if you happen to be running on little sleep and need to wake up in the morning for school, here's some advice that's helped me a ton:

First of all, drink some caffeine. I typically don't drink coffee, but when I need a pick me up, I turn to caffeine. That's why EarlyBird has caffeine from green coffee beans, the highest quality around. 

Next, expose yourself to natural light. It'll literally wake you up, so make sure you open the blinds or better yet, take a walk outside.

In fact, walking before school is my next tip to wake up early with little sleep. Going for a brisk walk will help to loosen your muscles and wake you up, especially if the sun has risen and you're exposing your body to even more natural light. 

Lastly, make sure you hydrate first thing in the morning. Hydration will wake you up and make you feel refreshed. Most people don't drink water in the morning which leaves them dehydrated, sluggish and groggy.

As a bonus, you can drink EarlyBird in the morning. It mixes with water and has electrolytes to keep you hydrated, and it also has caffeine that acts fast but releases throughout the day to keep you energized and hydrated without the crash.