How To Wake Up Early And Be More Productive

Waking up early is a mental battle. Your subconscious mind will try to convince you why you should stay in bed and enjoy this cozy time under the blanket. Here is a real conversation that your subconscious mind will be having with you:

This is bullshit. Don’t listen to it. If you listened to it you will be risking your career progression, body transformation, and a huge opportunity for being a rockstar. Don’t give it a chance to ruin your plan of being a successful and productive person. Because planning is 50% of the success, you have to decide at least one night before your todo list for this morning.

The first crucial step of waking up early is knowing why exactly you want to wake up early. Simply if you don’t have strong reasons why you should wake up early, then you will never be able to wake up early and your subconscious mind will manage to convince you to go back to sleep.

For instance, your todo list can be:

If you want to take it to the next level, then put a timeline to it.

There is no point to wake up half an hour earlier than your normal wake up time because simply it is not enough to get a lot of shit done. The shorter window you give for yourself, the more likely you will choose to get back to sleep and don’t wake up. Give yourself at least two hours in the morning because this will give you a positive feeling about what the number of things you can achieve in this period of time.

To cut the bullshit and don’t give a chance to your subconscious mind to come up with a million reason why you should not wake up early, once you open your eyes you need to jump from the bed. Once you hear your alarm set and open your eyes. Don’t think, just get up.

Unfortunately, your subconscious mind can analyze what ringtone is it without you even notice. After some time, it will start to ignore the alarm ringtone. I recently changed my alarm ringtone and made it the same as the phone calls ringtone and it worked. Instead of letting it say “it is the god damn birds ringtone for the wake-up-early alarm”, I made it say “Oh shit, whos calling at that time. Wake up!”.

You know that if you put your phone beside your bed, you might end up shutting it up and get back to sleep. That’s why you should put it a bit far away from you to enforce yourself to walk. By walking, you have to think, jump out of the bed, activate your blood circulation and that will decrease the probability of getting back to sleep.

Believe it or not, this is a strong reason for your subconscious mind to convince you with staying in the warm bed under the blanket. So if you are one of those people who sleep in the AC, make sure to put it on a room temperature or once you open your eyes go open the window and get some fresh air.

Everyone knows that social media is a time killer. But I’m not saying don’t use social media. I’m just saying don’t use it in the morning especially during the mental battle of waking up early. You will end up scrolling and scrolling until it’s too late to do get anything done and the idea of sleeping again will become the best option at the moment.

Wake up early, be productive and get shit done!

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