Yes, You Can Force Yourself to Become a Morning Person. Here's How. (Infographic) Sounds fun, doesn't it? We promise, if you follow these tips, it's not as bad as you think, sleepyhead.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Drat. Waking up on the right side of the bed doesn't come naturally to everyone. Some of us just aren't born morning people. Like zombies, we moan and groan, drag our feet and cringe at the morning light.

Luckily being a morning bah humbug isn't a forever deal. We can change it. All it takes are a few healthy tweaks to our daily schedules and -- here's the hardest part -- the discipline to to stick to them and for at least about two months straight.

Related: 5 Morning Ritutals to Keep You Productive All Day Long

Here are a few changes you can make to turn yourself into that shiny, happy morning glory you always wanted to be:

  • Don't hit the snooze button. Research shows that pressing "snooze" even once before peeling off the sheets makes the get-out-of-bed battle even harder. Falling back to sleep on and off over and over throws your body's natural sleep rhythm out of whack. Bottom line: When you press snooze, you lose.
  • Wake up at the same time every day. Yes, even on weekends. Go to bed at the same time every night, too. Doing so makes the wake-up process far less painful.
  • Resist the temptation to lounge. Instead of lazing about under the covers half-asleep, get up and jolt your body and mind into alert mode by exercising for a few minutes first thing in the morning. Even a few jumping jacks will do the trick.

Related: 7 Ways to Take Your Sleep Back

For more tips and tricks to help you morph into a morning person, check out the fact-filled infographic below compiled by the perky people over at Greatist, citing data from the National Institutes of Health.

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Yes, You Can Force Yourself to Become a Morning Person. Here's How. (Infographic)

Related: A 9-Step Framework for Creating a Morning Ritual

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Kim Lachance Shandrow

Former West Coast Editor

Kim Lachance Shandrow is the former West Coast editor at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was a commerce columnist at Los Angeles CityBeat, a news producer at MSNBC and KNBC in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Government Technology magazine, LA Yoga magazine, the Lowell Sun newspaper, HealthCentral.com, PsychCentral.com and the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Coop. Follow her on Twitter at @Lashandrow. You can also follow her on Facebook here

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