AbdulSalamDo you want to know that there is something more important than “How to wake up early” and that is “what to do by waking up early”? By just waking up early, you can’t achieve anything, you have to know what should be done to maximize your productivity.
“The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer…. When I wake to see that its lights 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). Successful people Know “How to wake up early”. The question is How? There is a number of reasons (blessings) for getting up early & we will discuss a few of them. Modern-day science proves that the most useful 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”.
There are many people around us, which know the answer of “how to wake up early in the morning” but never become successful so I concluded one thing 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:
Adding this section with thanks to Hal Elrod from his book “The Miracle Morning”
(Savers is my favorite & used technique. That’s why I added this technique to my book). Below is a brief overview of the six practices in the “Miracle Morning” routine.
1. Silence
After Knowing “How to wake up early”, know it is time to discuss “what to do after waking up early” know, it sounds sort of 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 smarter. If you don’t know how to do meditation, then 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 difficult like learning some mathematical theorem. You just have to sit & relax & focus on one thing at one time.
Note: You are not going to see its results in a day or week but after a month you will see a change in your energy level definitely & believe me, I added this for a reason & that is your growth.
2. Affirmations
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 smart, you will become super smart. 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 will 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 just have to 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 successful author, speaker & blogger. I made people feel good when they interact with me either in my workshops or in one-to-one meetings. I am born to remove the pains from the life of others & this is what motivates me.
Write your affirmation statement down here.
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3. Visualization
Affirmation is an audio auto-suggestion to yourself that you are born for a reason & you are special. 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 saw these dreams with a third eye called as “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 toughest situations & even in the “depressed idiots”. Believe me, there are billions of people around us who 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
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 & planks or set of bodyweight exercises you do on your living room floor. You just 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. Exercise can be your number one answer of the question “How to wake Up early”. Once you know that exercise is vital for your best performance, you will get up in time.
5. Reading
Reading is something you should do throughout 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 Scribing is writing your ideas, your thoughts & whatever comes to your mind. The book in your hand is a product of scribing in the early morning for about 18 months consistently (some Sundays off of course). Writing your ideas will help you in managing & channelizing your thought process.
This was all about “How to wake up early” and make the best out of your daily routine.
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