As someone that wakes up at 4.45 AM every day, I think I’m qualified to share how to wake up earlier. I know a few strategies to make it easier to actually get up, which I’ll be sharing in this post.
Wake Up At The Same Time Every Day – Including Weekends
As well, go to bed at roughly the same time and make sure you’re getting enough sleep each night.
This tip is important because by waking up at the same time every morning, it makes it easier to wake up and get up. This is because your body’s circadian rhythm and your sleeping pattern start to adjust to this regular time. As the day goes on, and as it gets closer to nighttime, you’ll feel more tired, making it easier to fall asleep.
Our bodies are meant to follow a set sleeping pattern. When you’re sleeping in at the weekends or not waking up to an alarm each day, your sleeping pattern suffers. This makes it harder to wake up and get up.
To counter this, set an alarm at the same time every day. This could be at an early hour like 4.45 AM, or it could be a later hour when you’re beginning to form the habit, such as 8 AM. Whatever your choice, make sure you have a set wakeup time and stick to it. Once the habit is formed, you can move that time forwards if you want to wake up earlier.
Wake Up With Purpose
What I mean by this is having a reason to get up and out of bed. Find something that excites you, motivates you, and makes you want to get up and out of bed. Something that makes you want to start the day.
This could be a passion project, a hobby you find interesting, or even playing video games for an hour. Whatever your choice is, make sure you have something that motivates you to wake up and get up. Once you have that motivation and purpose, it’s much easier to begin your day.
If you don’t have a purpose or a reason to get out of bed, it’s too easy to fall back asleep and wake up later. But this isn’t the best thing for you to do. Without that purpose or motivation, your days won’t be as productive as they could be. A form of drive or something to work towards gives your life meaning and a clear sense of direction.
Make It Easy Or Make It Forced
There are two ways you can approach this tip: the easy way, or the forced way. The easy way is less risky but useful nonetheless. This option is making it as easy as possible to wake up and get out of bed. One example of this is having your bedroom light turn on at your desired wakeup time.
Another example is putting your alarm across the room or in a different room. Doing so will require you to get out of bed to turn it off, meaning you’re already up and out of bed. Now all you have to do is resist the temptation to crawl back into bed.
Once you’re up, make sure you have stuff to do and remember your source of motivation and purpose. This will make it easier to begin the day.
The forced way is having something ‘bad’ that will happen if you don’t wake up and get up in time. Schedule this to happen a few minutes after waking up.
For example, this could be a speaker turning on at full volume and playing an embarrassing song. If you don’t wake up and turn the speaker off before it begins playing, you risk waking up the entire house and next door.
Another example is scheduling an email to send 10 minutes after waking up. This could be an email containing an embarrassing photo which you send to a friend. It could be an email to your boss saying ‘I quit’. You probably don’t want to quit your job or get embarrassed, so you’ll have motivation to get up and cancel the email.
Try out each of these tips and see what works best for you.
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