>>76812678
I have work at 0630 and I like to have breakfast and coffee before commuting. Thus, getting up at 5:30 is important to me. And I need to go to bed early (9 hours before my alarm) in order to hit my sleep goal. I need to be extremely rigid and strict with this and it has improved my sleep (and thus life) tremendously.
It is super boring to go to bed at 8:30 PM and I pretty much have no social life outside of work anymore, but it is so much better than the 3-4 hours of (interrupted) sleep that I came from in the previous decade. I have had this sleep schedule for a year now, and I feel like I could get done in 1 year what I did in the last 10 and with much better quality.
Sleep is an eternal struggle for me and I wish I could be casual and laid back about it, but I simply can't.