AbdulSalamAs you were searching for the “Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning”,. You have landed here at the most suitable answer to your query. This Blog is basically a chapter of my book “The Art of Becoming a Champion Student”, which I published for academic success and Higher productivity of students.
In this Blog, you will find your answer. The answer is a beautiful amalgamation of Wisdom and daily life hacks. A report published by the American National Health Institute shows that 60% of college students face the problem of poor sleep quality & 7.7% have met the criteria for insomnia disorder. You can also assess your sleep quality online by filling out the “Petersburg sleep quality test”.
Now let’s move forward & discuss those things that you have to add or remove from your lifestyle to become an early riser, but before that, you have to remember three things.
“Great Sleep = Great Day”
“Good Sleep = Good Day”
“Bad Sleep = Bad Day”
Sleep quality is directly related to your energy level the next day. I added the previous chapter to brief you about having a deep sleep so that your body can prepare well for the next day. So now we will discuss those crucial factors & techniques that can help you get out of bed at the right time instead of snoozing your alarm for 5 or 10 minutes.
1-Understanding your Body & mind.
#1 Wisdom Lesson of the Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is quickly understanding your body and Mind. The following two paragraphs are enough for you to do that. Today’s science proves that all our activities & emotions of the day are directly proportional to how we wake up in the morning. So the most common mistake in waking up in the morning is we snooze our alarm for five or ten minutes without knowing the consequences of it on our body (I believe you are not going to repeat that mistake after reading this blog).
Research proves that sleeping for a couple of minutes leads us to a full stressful full day & we keep feeling lazy thought out the day just because of five to ten minutes & that is the worst deal we do with our comfort zone. Research explains that sleep is divided into 75 to 90 minutes cycles.
A complete sleep may consist of 4 cycles at least & after that, your mind starts preparing for waking up. When we put snooze for 10 to 15 minutes, our brain starts another sleep cycle for 75 to 90 minutes (as the brain is programmed to do) but when we get up finally & start preparing ourselves for school, college or university, is not we feel laziness?
Yes, we do because our brain is in the sleep cycle & our body is out of bed, making an awkward situation for us in which we desire to sleep but we can’t. This situation (or those 5 minutes of snoozing) creates problems in us like anxiety, stress, and laziness, & takes away our creativity, focus & motivation.
2-Why do you want to wake up early?
#2 Wisdom lesson of the Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is defining your “Why” of waking up. Human psychology says that if you want to build a new habit (getting up early in the morning in our case), then you need a more significant reason to adopt this habit than the other habit you want to remove (keeping yourself in bed). Science is simple; you’re why doing something should be more significant than not doing something. So, if you want to wake up early, then find a reason to do that, a more significant reason that can actually fight against the will to stay in Bed. Think about what are the possible reasons you can have. Let me tell you my reasons for getting up out of bed & start to working
To write (writing is my passion & talent too)
To learn (Morning is the most suitable time to learn something)
To Enjoy the Essence of Dawn
Find yourself & decide what drives you out of bed.
3-How to wake up?
Well, First, see these few statements
• Sir, I want to wake up to study, but I simply cannot.
• Sir, I want to go for a walk, but I cannot.
• Sir, I unconsciously put my alarm on snooze
• Sir, I am a last-minute boy; I get up just 5minutes before the school bus arrives
• Sir, I want to leave the Blanket, but Blanket, don’t leave me(Joke)
• Sir, I want to sleep
Well, this is the problem for almost everyone.
#3 Wisdom lesson of the Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is Using Techniques often referred to as Life Hacks. We want to do something, but finding a more significant reason is really a challenging task, so what should we do in the meantime of finding our Big Reason? We have to play a game with our minds. Your mind is like an elephant & you are like a boy sitting on him. He will try to do what makes him comfortable, but you should do what is good for you, so here are a few techniques to play with your elephant & train him to do what you like instead of what he likes.
1- 5 Seconds Rule:
#1 Life Hack of the Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is using 5 Seconds Rule. 5 Seconds rule has changed millions of lives in five seconds. You play a simple psychological trick with your brain to make him do whatever you want. The author of the book “5 Seconds Rule”, Mel Robbins, says that our brain is programmed to give us excuses and reasons for not doing what we want to do (out of our comfort zone) after 5 seconds of thinking something. So, if you want to do something out of your comfort zone, you should take action within 5 Seconds after you think about it. Like when you open your eyes to snooze your alarm, instantly move out of bed with a reverse count from 5, which will be like 5,4,3,2,1 & 0(out). It will stop the brain from making excuses for not doing something & here is you who is out of bed,
2-Smartphone + Water.
#2 Life Hack of Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is Placing your phone away from the bed and near a glass of water. Alarm clocks are history; now, our young generation (including me, as I am 21) uses a smartphone which is all in one package, so the alarm is one of its features. The thing you have to do is to set the alarm on your phone for at least 90 minutes (as we discussed in the previous chapter) & keep it at least 12 feet away from your bed & also keep a glass of cold water near your phone. So, on the very next morning, when your alarm rings,
You will get out of your bed to stop the alarm & have a glass of water which will ultimately detach all laziness & your desire for sleep & now you can start a productive day.
3-Sleep Earlier:
#3 Life Hack of the Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is sleeping earlier. The optimum time to sleep is from 10 pm to 04 pm, so if you go to bed early, there are excellent chances of waking up quickly on time, so set your routine by keeping both aspects in mind. Remember! you cannot give up early(and fresh) without sleeping early.
4-Give yourself Time:
#4 of Easiest Way to Wake Up Early in the Morning is about time of adaptability. Siachen is the world’s highest battlefield, about 18000 ft from sea level. When the military moves toward the Hight or any new platoon or unit is deployed to Siachen, then they are not sent at 18000 ft at first deployment because humans can’t adopt such low temperature (-50 C); first, the new unit is sent to 3000 ft, then 6000 ft & then this distance is increased gradually with time to make body adopt the change.
We learned that the Human body is not designed to make drastic changes at once, like you are not going to make yourself out of bed at 4:00 am the next day after reading this book & applying the 5 seconds tool. You may get successful once, twice or thrice, but it will not work longer because your body is not designed to adopt sudden changes. So, you have to take small steps & bring small changes in your daily routine to finally adapt to an entirely new waking-up routine.
The Psychological background of making this chart is that our brain does not resist us much in making small changes rather than making significant changes in routine. Getting up early, 3 to 4 minutes a day, will be easy for you to do & after 12 weeks, you will be able to wake up at the optimum time with a healthy & consistent routine.
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