I do a lot of early am wake-ups being west coast-based & heading east.

Pack the night before. One less thing to worry about in the morning and since you're used to staying up later vs getting up early, might as well utilize the time.

Set 2 alarms. One electronic (probably your normal alarm clock). One analog or not connected to electricity (sports watch, cell phone). Last 2 trips I had electricity go out & would have been SOL w/o back-up.

Turn the clock away so that if you do wake up in the middle of the night, you won't know what time it was (other than it's not wake-up time cuz otherwise your alarm would be going off). Hard to explain, but if you don't know what time it is your brian can't connect to how much sleep you're actually losing (or not) & will go back to sleep easier. As I said hard to explain, but it works. Especially when you're going to dif time zones.

Don't drink alcohol - or not too close to bedtime. Alcohol can disrupt sleep in middle of night. Up to you on the vigorous love-making or painting the basement suggestions

Acknowledge you're not going to get a full night, but doesn't mean it still can't be quality sleep for the amount you're getting. And that as soon as your laptop or luggage is stowed on the plane, you can go back to sleep/take a nap. If you have eye shades, bring them w/ you on the plane & start snoozing.

Don't think when you go to bed, oh gosh I'm not gonna get much sleep, I'm going to be tired, etc - those are just negative thoughts that will prevent you from going to sleep easily.

If you've got a white machine or a CD w/ nature things (like ocean waves), pop that in as you're going to sleep or trying to. Think sleep, sleep, breathe deeply & think of sheep in meadows (read in an article that visualizing sheep in meadows - according to some research - does actually put folk to sleep faster - go figure!) Of course whether you actually want to count them or not is up to you Anyway, I've done the ocean wave, sleep, slowly, sheep thing - not sure which worked, but I usually fell asleep.

Be glad you're not doing it on the time change 2x/year - that one always screws up my sleep wondering if I set the clocks properly or the hotel did or the cab driver did

Good luck, & worst case get to sleep at a reasonable hour when you get to your destination.

Cheers. Sharon