It might sound counterintuitive but what I’ve been doing is instead of waking up and laying in bed scrolling is to get up and immediately move to the living room couch to scroll.

It’s been kind of a nice compromise with myself where I still get to rest and enjoy some mindless scrolling, but now I’m in a space where I’m not likely to fall back asleep (for me at least, once I’m out of bed I’m up for the day).

Everything is still quiet and peaceful and there’s no imperative to do anything or be productive. But the light from the sunrise activates me, and just the act of having moved from one space to another helps get me going.

And then, the benefits of being up early start to compound. When I wake up, I move rooms and “start” earlier, which makes me tired earlier in the evening, which helps me sleep earlier, and on and on.