How to wake up early morning 10 Tips

How to wake up early morning  10 Tips

Tip 1. To Wake Up Early, Go To Bed Early, 

Tip 2. Go To Bed And Get Up At The Same Time Every Day,  

Tip 3. Do Not Eat Before Going To Bed,  

Tip 4. Put Your Alarm Clock Far Enough From Your Bed,  

Tip 5. Have Important Things Planned For The Morning,  

Tip 6. Start Slowly But Start Now,  

Tip 7. Use Multiple Alarm Clocks,  

Tip 8. GTD For Early Risers - Create A Morning Ritual, 

Tip 9. Avoid Alcohol, Tobacco And Caffeine,

Tip 10. Put Yourself Under Time Pressure

How to wake up early morning  10 Tips

Tip 1. To Wake Up Early, Go To Bed Early

Taking on the goal to wake up early while you keep going to bed after midnight is the way to failure. Not only you become frustrated soon, but it may seriously damage your health. Remember, your body needs time to rest! Going to bed early can be a problem in the beginning, but after you actually start waking up early, then falling asleep in the evening will become much easier. How often you can't fall asleep in the evening on a day when you woke up really late? Many people who have trouble waking up have solved their wake up problems with this simple technique.

The studies also indicated that how much you sleep before midnight is twice as important as the number of hours you sleep after midnight - one more reason to go to bed early.

Take this first step to self-improvement! Keep reading this blog for more tips for waking up and getting out of bed.

Remember that old nursery song?

Go to bed early -- wake up with joy;
Go to bed late -- cross girl or boy.
Go to bed early -- ready for play;
Go to bed late -- moping all day.
Go to bed early -- no pains or ills;
Go to bed late -- doctors and pills.
Go to bed early -- grow very tall.
Go to bed late -- stay very small

Now if it's late evening or even night - turn off your computer and go sleep! Internet is the most alluring sleep distraction, experts say.

Tip 2. Go To Bed And Get Up At The Same Time Every Day

It's a good habit you need to acquire. First, you get more effective sleep for the same period of time, if you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. It also helps not just get up earlier, but also to fall asleep faster.

Second, it's better for your health - your body will handle it more easily if you keep the same circadian rhythm. Human body gets used to your sleeping pattern, and any significant change to this pattern usually results in a stress - you can not fall asleep for a long time, or you are having really hard time to get off the bed.

Finally, when your body gets used to the schedule you've selected, it will become much easier for you to get up. You will not even need an alarm clock and the drowsiness will fade away much faster.

Tip 3. Do Not Eat Before Going To Bed

Eating too much before bedtime not only doesn't help you fall asleep faster but is also not healthy. Have a light snack 2 hours before sleep time the latest. This advice has simple explanation. Your organism stays awake digesting the food, so even if you fall asleep part of your body is not "sleeping" and overall you still have less effective sleep which is not restful. You will need more sleep which in turn will not let you wake up easily.

Same applies to drinking lots of water, cola or any other beverages - you will feel discomfort and will have to get up to urinate during the night. If you feel thirsty put a glass of water near the bed and take a little sip from it from time to time before you fall asleep or when you wake up during the night. What's interesting though, Jon Rhodes from HypnoBasters told me that native indians used exactly the opposit trick - obviously they didn't have alarm clocks so instead they drunk loads of water just before going to bed. That way they would wake up early as they would soon need to relieve themselves!

Please note that going to bed hungry or thirsty is not good either and can be just as disruptive to sleep as going to bed too full. Having very light snack or glass of milk will help you ease the hunger. Check this Yahoo!Food article to decide what to eat for a good sleep:

Tip 4. Put Your Alarm Clock Far Enough From Your Bed

It’s simple advice yet many people don’t use it. They keep turning alarm off while being semi-asleep and then wonder how come they couldn’t wake up and missed an alarm... All you need is to put your alarm clock far enough to make you stand up and make few steps away from the bed to turn it off. I’ve used this approach successfully for few days until I found myself... walking back to the bed and falling asleep for one more hour! If this happens to you, here is what you should do. This tip works great in pair with another tip – GTD For Early Risers. I found that if I have something else to do after turning off alarm clock, I’m likely to go and do it, because the first and most challenging task – getting out of the bed – is already done. So I’ve built small morning ritual to follow, but it all starts with turning off alarm which is in the opposite corner of my bedroom.

Having alarm sound further away has additional benefit. You should avoid putting buzzing alarm clock right near your bed when you sleep because abrupt awakening is generally not a good thing for your health, and having alarm clock 10 feet away will make your awakening less stressful.

Tip 5. Have Important Things Planned For The Morning

Having something important planned for the morning can be that pushing force that will make you get up. Things that you really enjoy doing work best, but sometimes the things that are really pressing on you work just as well. The key is to have strong reasons to get up early in the morning.

When I started my first blog, I felt so inspired I would jump out of bed at 5am to see how my blog is doing, how many visitors I’ve got, what comments they posted, and then I would sit to answer comments and write my next post. So the main idea is to have something important to do that is worth taking yourself out of the bed. Check what important tasks are in your today or tomorrow plans and schedule some of them for next morning. Or maybe you have hobby that lately you can’t find time for. Or you’ve got to finally do that coursework… The more important is some thing for you, the better the chances it will push you out of the bed.

We often have some important or extremely interesting things that we couldn’t do during the day, so we try to do or finish them in the evening. Good tactic that I want to recommend you is to postpone it until the morning. For example, you need to answer that important email from your boss. It doesn’t really matter if you do it at 11pm or 6am next day – your boss will see it only in the morning. But knowing you have to do it before he writes you his another “reminding” email will make you stand up and go to computer as soon as alarm goes off.

Another example is what I usually do when I start reading some good book and then keep reading it until midnight because it’s so interesting I just can’t stop. What I do is I stop reading at some interesting point (yes, you need will-power to do it!) and put the book near my bed. And instead of spending another hour late in the evening I wake up to read the book one hour early in the morning. It’s not really “important thing" to do, but curiosity definitely works here just as well.

Tip 6. Start Slowly But Start Now

Some people can’t decide to change a habit because they put too big and too far goal ahead of them. Somehow no one expects to learn foreign language in one session, yet most people think they should change their wake up time once and forever. “I wake up at 9am, now I should start waking up at 6am.” “My goal is to start waking up at 5am, tell me how I can do it?” And that’s why many people fail – the change appears to be so stressful for their organism it just can’t stand it.

Don’t put yourself under stress when it can be avoided. Changing your sleeping pattern can be done and should be done slowly and steadily. The best way to wake up earlier is to shift your wake up to desired time by small fractions. Start waking up 5 minutes earlier every day. If you usually wake up at 8am, then wake up at 7:55am tomorrow, at 7:50am on a day after tomorrow, etc. 5 minutes is not the time that you and your body will notice. But doing so you will end up waking up 35 minutes earlier in one week, and 1 hour 45 minutes in 3 weeks! Now that’s a change!

You can start even slower, changing your wake up time by 5 minutes every 2-3 days. Take whatever approach you feel good about – the key thing here is that you should not feel discomfort.

Can waking up 5 minutes earlier be a real challenge? Yes it can, and it becomes a challenge if on some day for whatever reason you go to bed 2 hours later than usually... So try to avoid this mistake. Remember, you should go to bed and get up at the same time. Stick to this principle as close as possible and success is guaranteed.

Are you ready to start? Plan what reward you will get for yourself in 3 weeks, setup your alarm clock and start your quest for better life now!

Tip 7. Use Multiple Alarm Clocks

It’s not an easy thing to get up right after wake up alarm goes off. What many people do is they use multiple alarm clocks or multiple alarms. Many alarm clocks today have this ability to set multiple alarms at different time and use different tunes for them. Here are some tricks on how to use multiple alarms.

Start with setting 3 alarms, with 5-10 minutes between alarms. For first alarm put slow, calm tune. Most likely you won’t even hear it, but it will do its job – you will start waking up. With second and third alarms volume and tempo should go up. Don’t set too many alarms. Being asleep you still usually can count to three, and can recognize last alarm. This is your final chance to wake up. Having 5 or 7 alarms can play a trick with you – you won’t realize which alarm is last and can sleep through it.

Here is another way to wake up easier in the morning that may help you. I use 2 alarm clocks, and I put my second alarm clock in another room. The need to turn it off before it starts waking up the whole family automatically becomes my “next action” to do as soon as first alarm goes off. I get off the bed quickly because I know in 5 minutes another alarm clock in another room will go off, and that’s not what my relatives will appreciate.

It is a good idea to use several alarm clocks when you have very important things in the morning that you cannot miss no matter what. For example, if you leave on vacation, you don’t want to miss your plane or train. Everything breaks at some point, and alarm clock is not an exception. You don’t want that to happen to you on the day like that, so use two or three alarm clocks, just for backup. It's a good idea to take a travel alarm clock with you also.

Most cell phones, radios, tape recorders, watches and even TVs have built-in alarm clocks these days. Some of advanced devices, like Sonic Alert SB200 Sonic Boom Loud Vibrating Alarm Clock come with special features like adjustable tone and volume control, high/low dimmer switch, backup batteries, dual timers and even bed shakers!

Tip 8. GTD For Early Risers - Create A Morning Ritual

Have Important Things Planned For The Morning I’ve come up with few interesting findings. Primary one was that you will not have enough exciting things to do for every morning in your life. So after some time I found that I just wake up, turn my alarm clock off, and … go back to sleep, because as I wake up I simply talk myself into things I planned for the morning being not that important... I’ve started to neglect this “importance hack” altogether, but right at that time I was re-reading David Allen’s book Getting Things Done again.

GTD has this excellent concept of Next Actions lists. These lists are your To-Do lists in which actionable things are defined discretely into outcomes and concrete next steps. Basically, you put items in this list in the order of how you’ll physically do them. How do you use this concept for waking up? You create your morning ritual. First, start planning around routine things you do every morning and include those as items into your actions plan. I have developed detailed “step by step” plan of my actions since the moment wake up alarm goes off. It looked like this:

get off the bed

turn off alarm clock

turn on computer

put slippers on

open window

go to kitchen and drink glass of water

go to bathroom and wash my face

Once you have created the plan, start following it as soon as you wake up in the morning. Don't worry in the beginning if you don't wake up at the time you planned. Your goal is to program yourself to follow the plan. Once you are done with first item on your list – switch to the next one, do that next action. Do not rationalize, just follow the plan and focus your mind on action. It worked very well for me because my actions were happening almost automatically - being not completely awakened definitely helps here. And in my case, by the time I get out of the bathroom I’m completely awakened! Following the plan, switching to next action every time prevents you from returning to the bed.

When you do it for first few times, write down your plan and put it close to your alarm clock (that’s what I did). Eventually you will develop a morning ritual that is easy to follow and helps you organize your day (at least its morning part). Even after you have built a strong habit to get up early, planning your morning time in advance is still a good idea.

Tip 9. Avoid Alcohol, Tobacco And Caffeine

Many people these days try to reduce or manage the stress with the use of stimulants which in abundance can be found in most foods and drinks we consume. While cup of coffee in the morning may have a positive effect on your energy level and mental abilities, it can also cause insomnia and sleep deprivation. You should avoid alcohol, nicotine (smoking tobacco) and caffeine as much as possible because these stimulants have alerting effect, they disrupt sleep and prevent you body from effective relaxation. Caffeine means not just coffee but it’s also can be found in many teas, cola and soda drinks, chocolate and energy drinks.

If you can’t avoid some of these stimulants completely then at least try to avoid them in the evening within 4-6 hours of bedtime.

Most people think that moderate consumption of alcohol has a calming effect on your organism. It indeed may speed up the beginning of sleep, but your sleep will not be as restful. You may end up ruining your next morning if you wake up feeling dizzy. Don't drink and you will be more likely to wake up refreshed in the morning.

It should be noted that effect of these stimulants is very individual and the best way to find out who your “sleeping enemies” are is just to try and avoid these food and drinks for some time and see if your sleeping improves. Simple logic says that the more effective your sleep is, less time you need to sleep and completely “recharge” your organism, and earlier you can get up.

Tip 10. Put Yourself Under Time Pressure

Time pressure, time trouble or zeitnot is the situation of having very little time on a player's clock to complete his remaining moves.

There are people who do their best only when they are put into a stress situation. If you are one of them, if you need to feel the surge of adrenaline to get thing moved, then you can try the zeitnot approach to build early wake up habit.

You can put yourself into zeitnot if you postpone things until the last minute. Imaging your boss asked you for a report to be delivered tomorrow. Most people would stay late to finish it today. You can postpone it until tomorrow morning, knowing you can get up early and do it. By putting yourself into zeitnot, you release the power within you that can help you do nearly impossible things. It’s a great motivation that will kick you out of the bed in a second.

There are two potential issues with this approach though. First, you need to wake up, or you will miss your “last chance” while watching sweet dreams. Alarm clock is your friend in this case. Second, you need to remember in the morning that there is this important leave-or-die task that you have to jump on a.s.a.p. I recommend to put a note by your alarm clock so you will clearly see it in the morning.

I know this may look like a brute approach that sometimes may be unsafe, if not for your life then for your job or relationships for sure. So use it at your own risk and only when you know what you do. And don’t forget to share your story on how it worked.

All The Best .......