“The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer…. When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel like the world has started without me.”
You have recently found a lucrative job where you will have to work in the morning but you generally get up late in the morning. You may be going to start a class that begins in the morning. You simply may wan to be an early riser. Now you need to get up early in the morning but don’t know what to do? You have to do it anyway. No? However, some of us may have to work late in the night so that we are bound to get late in the morning. If you have this habit and you are fine, there is nothing to worry about getting up early since we need at least 5-6 hours of daily sleep.
Some benefits of getting up early
Certainly, there must be many good things about getting up early in the morning since large number of people either have this habit or just make their try. Such benefits can be discussed from social, psychological or physical point of view. Nevertheless, I am going to list some of them in general;
1. Great start of the day: Rise of the sun in the east means we should get up. If you get up late, you already will have left some time of the day doing nothing (If you seriously want to get up early but if you work late in the night so that get up late, it’s ok for you as I have said above). Some people (even some of my friends and relatives) worship sun as God in the morning. Early get up means new sun!
2. Freshness: We all know, early morning is the freshest part of the day. Not much noise, low traffic, cool and fresh environment etc. all makes early morning the most enjoyable and not miss time of the day.
3. Exercise and health benefits: In today’s world, due to busy schedule and every day growing fierce competition, people are unable to give enough time to keep them fit and healthy mentally and physically. Nevertheless, many of them don’t know the fact that even an hour of simple exercise daily can keep them fit and provide relief from various stress, anxiety, pressure etc. The best and fruitful time to do all these is definitely the early morning.
4. More time to do things: By the time your neighbor just get out of bed, you might already have breakfast, checked email, prepared Tiffin for your kids because you got up two hours before him/her.
How to get up early in the morning
Now, you’ve decided to get up early. Here are some ideas:
1. You know you are going to get up early in the morning. Ask yourself again. Are you mentally and physically ready? Are you serious? Do you really know why you are going to get up early?
2. There is no any exact time getting before that is called early morning. It is up to you to decide the time for you. In this article, I suppose you generally get up at 8 am and want to lower this time to 5 am. Must people make mistake by getting up at 5 am from the next day. For sure, it becomes difficult. As a result, your whole day will be gloomy and probably you may decide not to get up at that time the next day thinking, “Oh, this is not for me. I don’t have bone that will help me to put off the bed in the morning!” Hey, common! You still can do it.
3. My idea is to reduce your getting up time gradually. So, you will need some time before it becomes natural for you to get up at target time. Before going to bed, think to get up at 7:45 am next day means this is like any other plan for the next day. For this, you will (may) need alarm. Set the alarm exactly at the set time. Suppose that you got up at the fixed time. Next day, try to get up at 7:30 am. In the same way, you will lower the time by 15 minutes a day. If you can’t do 15 minutes a day, there isn’t any problem. Try 10 or 5 minutes a day. You will continue this process until you are at the target time. You may miss the planned time some day but don’t go back. Just continue.
4. I think it’s not compulsory but putting the alarm some distance away from your bed may become helpful since you will have to get out of your bed to switch off the alarm. Nevertheless, forget about the concept of multiple alarms at every corner of the room. This simply may disturb other members of your family or neighbor. If there is anyone in your family who gets up earlier than you do, ask him/her to wake you up in the morning at the time you set.
5. It is better to have something important to do in the morning so that chances may be you will immediately get out of your bed once you wake up.
6. After waking up, do not spend any time thinking you will get after 5 minutes or you will do this from the next day. Rather, think only going out of the bed is the thing you should do at that moment. You will have to do this only in the initial days. After some time of practice, this will happen to you automatically. After leaving bed, have bath do exercise or simply go for morning walk or jugging. During my college day, I had habit of getting up at 4 am every day. Certainly, it used to be very difficult in the beginning but after sometime, I didn’t need any alarm. I used to wake up at 4 am without any alarm. This happened to me naturally. This will also happen to you. How? Let me tell you. Do you need any alarm to get up at 8 am (I supposed)? If no then you may also not need any alarm to get up at 5 am (again I supposed), as I already said above once this becomes your habit of getting up at 5 am. If not, at least your alarm will hundred per cent put you off your bed!
7. There is no possibility of getting up early unless you go to bed early. If you do not have enough sleep, how can you get up early? So, have well and enough sleep.
What do you think? Why do you get up early in the morning? At what time do you get up in the morning? How do you get up in the morning? Do you have any other ideas?
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