How to Wake Up Early
Pick your goal wake-up time., Set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier than normal., Give yourself enough time for a good night's rest., Get excited., Get ready for the benefits., Mentally prepare yourself to wake up early.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Pick your goal wake-up time.
If you'd like to get good at being ready and raring to go by 6 AM, great! There's your goal.
This will be the goal you're working toward every day of the week.
You're going to do it gradually, though, as to avoid shocking your system.
That's right, every day of the week, including weekends.
Until you're completely reprogrammed, there won't be any sleeping in whatsoever.
But once you get it down, you won't need to! -
Step 2: Set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier than normal.
If you're normally sleeping till 9, going cold turkey and aiming for 6:30 just isn't going to happen.
Well, it could happen once, but then you spend the entire day drinking coffee and regretting your life decisions.
For the next day, set it for 8:45.
The next day? 8:30.
And even when you hit that glorious Saturday, chuck off 15 minutes until you hit your goal wake-up time.
If mornings are a serious issue for you, stay at one level for two days.
Monday and Tuesday can be spent at 8:00 and then on Wednesday bring it down to 7:45. , If you're used to sleeping from 12 to 9, you can't still go to bed at midnight and expect that 6 AM wake-up call to be all trumpets and roses.
As you get up earlier and earlier, go to bed earlier and earlier.
The goal isn't to need less sleep (sleep, after all, is wonderful), the goal is just to wake up earlier easier.
Science tells us that if you get the recommended amount of sleep during the night, it's easier to do just that.You can also try conditioning your body to need less sleep if passing on those night hours is like giving up your first born child.
It's the same idea, but with maintaining a set bedtime. , In order to hop out of bed in the morning with gusto, you may need something to hop out of bed for.
So find something to get excited about! If nothing comes to mind, use this experiment as something to do full-force.
After all, the path to new, more productive habits is certainly something to be proud of.
What do you have going on in the next day that you can't wait to get up for? Its size does not indicate its efficacy
-- small things work just as well.
Even getting excited for the morning's cup of joe works! Yum.
Can you almost taste it? , Waking up early is linked to a bunch of different, positive things.
Research says that early risers get better grades, are generally more proactive, can anticipate problems and plan better than their late-rising counterparts.Hope you can handle your own impending awesomeness.
It's sort of a chicken before the egg thing.
Early risers have more time for exercise, family, and more quiet time at the office (and an easier commute).Is sleep making their lives better or do they sleep better because they have good lives? Try it out for yourself! , Run through your morning routine in your head so that you have a game plan for the early hours.
If you have a plan, you won't need to think about it--just move.
If you need to be out the door and on your way at a certain time, think about how much time you'll need for each step of your morning routine.
Consider what, if anything, you can cut out of your routine to streamline the process: do you need that shower, or that cup of coffee? As you lay in bed, drifting off to sleep, tell yourself: "I need to wake up early tomorrow.
I need to wake up at 5 a.m., make a pot of coffee, shower, shave, and be out the door by 5:45.
It'll take me twenty minutes to drive to the airport, ten more minutes to get set up in the long-term parking lot, and another fifteen minutes to walk to the security check.
I can grab a quick breakfast in the terminal before my flight leaves." -
Step 3: Give yourself enough time for a good night's rest.
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Step 4: Get excited.
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Step 5: Get ready for the benefits.
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Step 6: Mentally prepare yourself to wake up early.
Detailed Guide
If you'd like to get good at being ready and raring to go by 6 AM, great! There's your goal.
This will be the goal you're working toward every day of the week.
You're going to do it gradually, though, as to avoid shocking your system.
That's right, every day of the week, including weekends.
Until you're completely reprogrammed, there won't be any sleeping in whatsoever.
But once you get it down, you won't need to!
If you're normally sleeping till 9, going cold turkey and aiming for 6:30 just isn't going to happen.
Well, it could happen once, but then you spend the entire day drinking coffee and regretting your life decisions.
For the next day, set it for 8:45.
The next day? 8:30.
And even when you hit that glorious Saturday, chuck off 15 minutes until you hit your goal wake-up time.
If mornings are a serious issue for you, stay at one level for two days.
Monday and Tuesday can be spent at 8:00 and then on Wednesday bring it down to 7:45. , If you're used to sleeping from 12 to 9, you can't still go to bed at midnight and expect that 6 AM wake-up call to be all trumpets and roses.
As you get up earlier and earlier, go to bed earlier and earlier.
The goal isn't to need less sleep (sleep, after all, is wonderful), the goal is just to wake up earlier easier.
Science tells us that if you get the recommended amount of sleep during the night, it's easier to do just that.You can also try conditioning your body to need less sleep if passing on those night hours is like giving up your first born child.
It's the same idea, but with maintaining a set bedtime. , In order to hop out of bed in the morning with gusto, you may need something to hop out of bed for.
So find something to get excited about! If nothing comes to mind, use this experiment as something to do full-force.
After all, the path to new, more productive habits is certainly something to be proud of.
What do you have going on in the next day that you can't wait to get up for? Its size does not indicate its efficacy
-- small things work just as well.
Even getting excited for the morning's cup of joe works! Yum.
Can you almost taste it? , Waking up early is linked to a bunch of different, positive things.
Research says that early risers get better grades, are generally more proactive, can anticipate problems and plan better than their late-rising counterparts.Hope you can handle your own impending awesomeness.
It's sort of a chicken before the egg thing.
Early risers have more time for exercise, family, and more quiet time at the office (and an easier commute).Is sleep making their lives better or do they sleep better because they have good lives? Try it out for yourself! , Run through your morning routine in your head so that you have a game plan for the early hours.
If you have a plan, you won't need to think about it--just move.
If you need to be out the door and on your way at a certain time, think about how much time you'll need for each step of your morning routine.
Consider what, if anything, you can cut out of your routine to streamline the process: do you need that shower, or that cup of coffee? As you lay in bed, drifting off to sleep, tell yourself: "I need to wake up early tomorrow.
I need to wake up at 5 a.m., make a pot of coffee, shower, shave, and be out the door by 5:45.
It'll take me twenty minutes to drive to the airport, ten more minutes to get set up in the long-term parking lot, and another fifteen minutes to walk to the security check.
I can grab a quick breakfast in the terminal before my flight leaves."
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