Don’t wake up early and waste that extra time. Don’t wake up an hour or two early just to read your blogs, unless that’s a major goal of yours. Take advantage of all that extra time.Find something that’s pleasurable for you, and allow yourself to do it as part of your morning routine. Other rewards might be a tasty treat for breakfast (smoothies! yum!) or watching the sunrise, or meditating. I’ve recently cut out coffee, but I still enjoy reading my book. My reward used to be to make a hot cup of coffee and read a book. Yes, it might seem at first that you’re forcing yourself to do something hard, but if you make it pleasurable, soon you will look forward to waking up early. Despite what I just said in the previous point, once in awhile it’s nice to sleep in. Allow yourself to sleep in once in awhile.Don’t make getting back in bed an option. If you allow your brain to talk you out of getting up early, you’ll never do it. By the time I’ve done that, and flushed the toilet and washed my hands and looked at my ugly mug in the mirror, I’m awake enough to face the day. My habit is to stumble into the bathroom and go pee. Just force yourself to go out of the room. Don’t allow yourself to rationalize going back to bed. Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm.If it’s far from your bed, you have to get up out of bed to shut it off. If it’s right next to your bed, you’ll shut it off or hit snooze. Put your alarm clock far from you bed.If you’re really tired, you just might fall asleep much sooner than you think. I suggest going to bed earlier, even if you don’t think you’ll sleep, and read while in bed. And if it is the early rising that gives, then you will crash and sleep late and have to start over. But if you continue this habit, while trying to get up earlier, sooner or later one is going to give. You might be used to staying up late, perhaps watching TV or surfing the Internet. Do this gradually until you get to your goal time. Start slowly, by waking just 15-30 minutes earlier than usual. Here are my tips for becoming an early riser: Some days, when I’m really tired (if I go to sleep late), I’ll wake at 5:00 or 5:30, but that’s still earlier than I used to wake up. Now that I completed that novel-writing goal, I don’t need to wake that early anymore, but have settled on a happy compromise of waking at 4:30 a.m. And last November, when I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo, I decided to get up at 4 a.m. for an early long run, it wasn’t a problem. When that became a habit, and I had to wake up at 4 a.m. I started by getting up at 5:30 a.m., then at 5 a.m. So, I set out to make waking up early a habit. But last year, when I decided to train for my first marathon, I decided that I needed to start running in the mornings if I was to have any time left for my family. to fix my kids’ lunches and get them ready for school. Then things changed, because I had to wake up between 6-6:30 a.m. I just posted about my morning routine, and thought you might like to know how I get up at 4:30 a.m.įor many years, I was a late riser. I’ve found that waking early has been one of the best things I’ve done as I’ve changed my life recently, and I thought I’d share my tips.
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