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Tip #23. How to Wake Up Early by Creating Right Associations 2007-07-25 02:08:50 Another important how to wake up early strategy is based on creating positive associations
with waking up early and negative associations with not doing it. Every person on this planet
is driven by two things. The need to avoid pain, and the desire to gain pleasure – explains
Anthony Robbins in his most
popular
Personal Power program
.
If you do something, it’s because you associate a pleasure with it. If you don’t do something,
it’s because of pain and fear you link to it. By creating positive, pleasurable associations
with waking up early and severe pain associations with not doing it you can help build stronger habit that
works, consistently. Here is how you can do it... Read more:Early
, Creating
, Right
Tip #22. Start your morning with a puzzle 2007-07-14 15:24:48 Another wake up trick is to puzzle yourself in the morning by putting alarm clock into
a place where it can’t be easily turned off or by using a gadget that will create a puzzle for you.
For example, bring a chair, put an alarm clock high on the cabinet, and then put your chair into another room. You will have to repeat
this procedure in the morning to shut off alarm. If you can’t come up with a puzzle, check
these gadgets that combine alarm clock and puzzle in one evil device...
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Tip #21. Weekend Lie-In Does Not Make Up For Long Hours. Beware The Consequences. 2007-07-12 14:04:44 New research has shown that weekend lie-in fails to make up for long hours in the week.
Chronic sleep deprivation breaks the ability of your body to compensate for lost sleep and
may result in weight gain, irritability, hallucinations and depression. Needless to say,
waking up early in this case may only add up to the problems...
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, Hours
, Beware
Tip #20. Wake Up From The Inside 2007-07-11 13:34:36 Alarms are external irritants that make you wake up. When alarm goes off, your mind wakes up
but your internal organs keep “sleeping” for some more time. How you can wake
up “from the inside”? There is an old trick and it's quite simple - put a glass of water near alarm clock
and drink the water first thing as you wake up...
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Tip #19. Put Your Alarm Clock Far Enough From Your Bed 2007-07-10 17:39:14 Your first step away from your bed is the most important step you need to make towards your
early rising habit. How to make it? There are many options, but let’s start with this easy
one. You can simply put an alarm clock far enough from your bed, and...
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, Enough
, Alarm Clock
Tip #17. Avoid Alcohol, Tobacco And Caffeine 2007-07-07 14:23:02 You should avoid alcohol, nicotine and caffeine as much as possible because these stimulants have
alerting effect, they disrupt sleep and prevent your body from effective relaxation. It’s very
individual though so the best way is just to try and avoid these stimulants for some time and
see if your sleeping improves.
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, Alcohol
, Tobacco
, Caffeine
Tip #16. GTD For Early Risers - Create A Morning Ritual 2007-07-05 01:24:40 I opened David Allen’s book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity for myself back in 2005
(I have been re-reading it every few months since then). Getting Things Done, commonly
abbreviated as GTD, is a work-life management system based on simple but very effective
principles. Here is how I used GTD to help me in my waking up experiments...
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, Risers
, Morning
, Ritual
Tip #15. Put Yourself Under Time Pressure 2007-07-04 00:36:48 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 this approach to build early wake up habit. Put yourself into a situation where you
have extremely important things to do in the morning. Those should be “do or die” things that
cannot be postponed any further...
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, Pressure
Tip #14. Practice Waking Up 2007-07-03 00:43:10 You can "practice" waking up by doing simple exercises at day time. This very original tip comes
from Steve Pavlina. His blog is a treasure
trove of useful information in the area of personal development.
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Tip #13. Start Slowly But Start Now 2007-06-27 00:58:02 If you still can’t decide on changing your lifestyle, if you still think whether you should wake
up early or not – you are probably thinking too high. You don’t have to wake up 2 hours earlier
starting from tomorrow. Start
waking up 5 minutes earlier on every day, and start it tomorrow...
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Tip #12. Use Multiple Alarm Clocks 2007-06-24 14:58:16 Can’t wake up after alarm goes off? Keep pressing that snooze button? Then this
tip, powered with few tricks, is for you.
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, Clocks
Tip #11. Have Important Things Planned For The Morning 2007-06-21 15:15:58 If you want to wake up early then make sure you have something important planned for the
morning – something that you really want to do first thing as you wake up and which is more
important than taking an extra hour of sleep.
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Tip #10. Do Not Eat Before Going To Bed 2007-06-16 00:16:30 Don't eat too much right before bedtime. You may have light snack 2 hours before sleep time, but not later.
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...
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Tip #9. Create A Reward System For Yourself 2007-06-13 13:06:28 Excellent trick that works very well not only for waking up but whenever you want to do
something you don't like or keep procrastinating on is putting a reward ahead of you...
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, System
Tip #8. Ask Someone Who Wakes Up Early To Wake You Up 2007-06-12 23:44:16 If you are lucky to have friends or relatives who wake up early - ask them to
wake you up. You may ask friend to call your number (just have your phone close so you
don't wake up all the house or your neighbours). Or you may ask a friend who is jogging
in the morning by your house to knock your door. The secret of this trick is actually not
in the fact someone wakes you up (alarm clock can do it as well)...
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Tip #7. Sleep With Fresh Air 2007-06-12 02:23:10 One of the tricks to wake up early is to have more effective sleep for the same amount of time. Freshen the air in your room
before you go to sleep (or just sleep with windows open if outside temperature is OK), and you will have more relaxed and more
deep sleep...
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Tip #6. Take A Nap In The Afternoon 2007-06-09 08:20:12 If you struggle to wake up early, chances are your body doesn't get enough sleep. Try to take a nap for 20-30 minutes at day
time. It helps reduce stress and you will feel refreshed. Best time to take a nap is midday...
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Tip #5. Let The Music Wake You Up 2007-06-08 07:01:18 This is an excellent trick that I use for a long time. Do you have your favorite song? Then all you will need is a music player with a built-in alarm clock.
Set the player to play the song you selected and set the time of alarm...
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Tip #4. It Takes 3 Weeks To Make A Habit 2007-06-07 02:34:06 Some sources say it takes 21 day to make a habit, some say it's 24 days, some say it's 30. Doesn't really matter. What matters is that you do not need
to commit yourself to waking up early on every day till the end of your life. It's kind of commitment which is extremely hard to give!
What you do is you commit to wake up early for 3 weeks. That's all. You know that on 22nd day you may sleep for as long as you want.
Guess what? After 3 weeks, you will not want to sleep any longer!
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, Habit
Tip #3. Give A Promise To Wake Up Early 2007-06-04 02:55:40 Give a promise to someone that you will start waking up early. Works best with your family members, friends, etc. Once given, promise
should be kept, or you lose respect with those people...
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Tip #2. Go To Bed And Get Up At The Same Time Every Day 2007-06-02 01:40:04 It's a good habit you must 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...
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Tip #1. To Wake Up Early, Go To Bed Early 2007-06-01 08:20:12 As simple as it seems, this tip is hard to beat. Having enough sleep is important
not only to wake up early, but to feel energized on the next day, be productive and focused...
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Tip #24. Track Your Early Wake Up Progress 2007-07-27 16:07:00
This early wake up trick was inspired by Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret posted by
Brad Isaac
at LifeHacker.com, link to
which I’ve run into while browsing Jim Gibbon’s blog (Thanks Jim!). I’ll quote Brad, because
I probably won’t come up with a better explanation anyway. According to Brad, he once approached
Jerry Seinfeld asking if he had
any tips for a young comic.
He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on
one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker...
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, Early
Tip #25. Use Wake Up Call Services 2007-07-29 06:31:58 Most of us used wake up call services in the hotels before, when reception calls you at the specific
time you’ve asked them for. But today’s technology went far beyond that so it’s time to re-evaluate old
wake up call service and see how it can help you wake up.Today’s wake up call service is
digitally
equipped, fully automated, highly customizable, reliable, inexpensive and takes minutes to setup
.
It’s amazing how many new ideas emerged in attempt to maximize the value of one phone call. In addition
to the call itself, you may get a number of additional features like listening to selected music or
customized voice message, daily news or weather forecast. You can "snooze" the call. You may choose to sync with selected events
in Calendar on your PC and the service will give you a reminder call at a required time...
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Tip #26. Understand Sleep Mechanics 2007-08-03 16:37:36 We always have a better chance to succeed in things which we understand and where we know underlying
principles and laws, as opposed to things we do not understand. Let’s see how understanding sleep
mechanics can help you sleep better and wake up earlier. The principles of how sleep works are quite
simple (well, at basic level), yet many people have never heard about them. Here is your 5-minute
crash course on sleep mechanics...
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, Sleep
, Mechanics
Tip #27. Advertise Your Early Wake Up Habit 2007-08-07 16:16:00 We talked before about giving a promise
to someone that you will wake up early. When given, such promise will hold you accountable, and
that’s exactly what you need to continue building your early rising habit day by day. There is one
more way to get the same result though. Wake up early at least once, and start telling people about it.
Matthew Stibbe from BadLanguage blog
recommends to boast widely about your new early-birdiness...
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, Early
, Habit
Tip #28. Do Not Go To Bed If You Do Not Feel Sleepy 2007-08-12 04:29:12 To wake up early you should get a habit of
going to bed and waking up at the same time every day,
but… There is one exception to this rule. On some days you may not feel sleepy enough at the
time when you usually go to bed. This often happens if your day was calm and quiet and you
aren’t feeling tired. Or, in the opposite situation, you may be so excited about something
that happened to you today you simply can’t sleep...
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Tip #29. Wake Up And Smile! 2007-08-15 16:24:58 “Wake up and Smile
? And what then?” – you’ll ask. That’s it! Just smile, and see
what happens. Kudos for this tip goes to Aaron Potts and his Today is that Day blog. In his recent post on 8 Tips on How to Get Out of Bed even When You Don’t Want To
he mentions this incredibly simple yet amazingly powerful tip. Yes, all you need is a big smile. Here is how it works and why...
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Tip #30. Outrun Your Thoughts 2007-08-22 01:47:48 One of the primary reasons why most people fail to wake up early in the morning is that once
they wake up and turn off alarm clock they talk themselves into going back to bed again. It’s
amazing how many “good” reasons for sleeping another hour we may find once we wake up. The key here
is to stop rationalizing and let your body outrun your thoughts...
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