AbdulSalamWelcome to this 5-minute read. In the following 300 seconds, you will learn something special: How to Start your Day as a Student? Why did I spend two hours writing this blog for you? Because it changed my lifestyle as a student, it will shuffle yours. Let’s get started with a quote.
The Ultimate Day Start“The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all day hours. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer…. When I wake to see that it’s lights are out already, I feel the world has started without me.”
~Terri Guillemets
We often talk about successful people & their charm of life, like how they are driving their Lamborghini & having a cup of coffee on the 16th floor of some building in New York, but we never see the other side of the story which is that it takes them years of consistency & hard work in being there, where they are today. When I studied the lifestyle of those successful people who are either from today’s modern world, like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, The Rock, Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Imran Khan, Steve Jobs, Modi, and Tim Cook or from the scientists & inventors from the history, those all were the early risers, & like many other habits, getting up early in the morning was one of the most effective habits that made them what they are today (successful).
The question is, How? There are a number of reasons (blessings) for getting up early & we will discuss a few of them. Modern-day science proves that the most helpful time of the day is before dawn & one who knows how to use time well is actually successful in the modern world. When I was reading & studying the life of early risers, I came to know about one more shade about early rising & which I called “Empty Mornings”. “How to Start your Day as a Student” is not about empty mornings, rather it is about productive mornings. Mornings that can change you forever.
Many people around us used to get up early in the morning but never become successful, so I concluded one thing that is only early rising is not a condition for setting up a healthy lifestyle in your life. The Actual condition is to have a productive use of this time. So, from today instead of scrolling your social media & checking your Whatsapp messages soon after getting up or posting a selfie with hashtag #earlyrising #goodmorning, make a better deal with time & invest your time in some productive tasks that can energize your body. Let’s discuss something that we can do in the morning to make our time productive throughout the day.
SAVERS
How to Start your Day as a Student is all about doing SAVERS. This set of techniques Below is a brief overview of the six practices in the “Miracle Morning” routine.
1. Silence
The #1 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about Silence. I know it sounds awkward to wake up to sit silently. But this silence is actually a meditation that you do; meditation has a nearly endless list of proven health benefits for the human body and mind — from less stress and anxiety to more creativity and clarity — Yes, I said right & you read right. Meditation can help you in copping many major & minor issues of your life & can help you in becoming more brilliant. Suppose you don’t know how to do meditation. In that case, you can learn it on some YouTube channel or by downloading the “Simple Habit” app from the google play store & do it for 5 to 10 minutes a day & believe me, it’s not tricky as learning some mathematical theorem. You have to sit & relax & focus on one thing at once.
Note: You will not see its results in a day or week, but after a month, you will see a change in your energy level defiantly & believe me, I added this for a reason & that is your growth.
2. Affirmations
The #2 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about Positive Words. We often get depressed by many little things that our friends & family say to us about our life like “you are a failure”, “ you are stupid” “you are ugly like hell” & on the very opposite side when somebody tells us that “ You are going to be successful” “you are Super Smart” “you are beautiful”, both types of sentences have an effect on us. If somebody says negative, we become depressed & when somebody says positive, we feel bliss. Now there is one more side that we need to discuss & that is what we say to ourselves.
Listen! if you keep saying yourself stupid, you will become stupid one day; if you keep saying yourself super bright, you will become super intelligent. Do you know how? We, humans, are psychologically programmed to believe what we say to ourselves & it does not matter whether it’s positive or negative. If you talk to yourself positively, you will become positive regardless of the thousands of negative idiots around you. Affirmation is the name of “talking positively to yourself” daily to make yourself believe that you are going on the right path. To practice this Affirmation technique, you must write a couple of positive sentences about yourself & read them daily. Let me tell you what I have written on my working desk.
“I am a young author, speaker & blogger. I made people feel good when they interacted with me either in my workshops or in a one-to-one meetings. I am born to remove the pains from the life of others & this is what motivates me.
3. Visualization
The #3 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about Visualizing. Affirmation is an audio auto-suggestion to yourself that you are born for a reason & you are unique. Visualization is a video auto-suggestion in which you see yourself where you want to be in the next 5 years or two years. You see yourself achieving your goals & fulfilling those dreams with closed eyes. We see these dreams with a third eye called the “Future Eye”, using the tool of “Imagination” to look into our future to see what we actually want to become. Visualization helps us in being motivated most of the time, even in the most challenging situations & even in the “depressed idiots”. Believe me, billions of people around us don’t possess this third eye & they die one day without visions & goals to become something admirable. Do practice this for 5 minutes a day & become something admirable.
4. Exercise
The #4 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about physical health. When it comes to this point, then please don’t overthink; you don’t need to run 8 miles or even go to the gym at all (unless you want to). “Exercise” can be something as simple as ten-minute routine exercises like doing sit-ups & pushups & plank or a set of bodyweight exercises you do on your living room floor. You need to get moving and get the blood and oxygen flowing to the brain. Add these exercises to your daily to-do list & complete them as your first priority.
5. Reading
The #5 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about reading books or relevant content. Reading is something you should do though out your life. You must read a minimum of 10 pages per day, & that must be some personal development book or a religious text, not WhatsApp texts or Facebook statuses. We will briefly talk about it a bit later.
6. Scribing
The #6 of How to Start your Day as a Student is about Scribing. It is writing your ideas, your thoughts & whatever comes to your mind. The book in your hand is a product of consistently scribing in the early morning for about 18 months (some Sundays off, of course). Writing your ideas will help you in managing & channelizing your thought process.
This was all from today. Comment YES if you below you are going to start them from tomorrow. Pen down these six practices in your daily to-do list to make them happen.
I am a psychologist, Author and Udemy Instructor. I have diverse Professional experience in teaching, training and counselling. For the past 7 years, I have contributed to the literature on positive psychology, self-help, personal development and student affairs. I regularly write a blog on www.abdulsalamspeaks.com, and here is the list of my publicly available resources.
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