Timo: That’s true. I think getting bed early would come as a side product from waking up early if our culture wasn’t so evening based.

If you’re into watching TV, all the interesting series etc. start earliest at 9 PM, some even later. Movies last often until midnight. (I haven’t been watching TV that much lately and it has definitely helped me in getting to bed earlier)

And if your wife / girlfriend / friends in general like to stay up late, it’s hard to go to bed early too… So, it easily happens that you wake up early and in the evening although you’re tired you still stay up at least an hour longer than you should…

But I believe that slowly we can convince more and more of the people around us into getting to bed early, and waking up early. And then it’ll get easier ;)

I have been a early riser almost a year now and I wouldn’t change this habit back to my late rising habit I had earlier. Although I give myself a priviledge to sleep bit more later during the weekends, being a early riser has definately been a good thing for me.