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How to Wake Up Early

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One of the most frequently asked questions to me is: “How do you manage to wake up early?”

Logic says several answers to it:

    Keep your workout gear next to your bed
    Alarm clock in another room
    Burpees on waking up, etc.

All of these work, until they don’t.

The true question to address is “How to sleep on time?”

If you’re sleeping at 11 and want to wake up at 4, the motivation will certainly stop on Day 4.

What if we get a night-time schedule, that makes it impossible to sleep late? Something like:

    Having dinner 2-3 hours prior to planned bed time
    Spending time doing activities that relax you
    Planning for the next day

It turns out, if we turn to twist the outputs without changing the inputs, the motivation won’t lasts.
The more we strive to get the inputs right, the more the outputs automatically take care of themselves.

Can attest to it, this has been the only thing working for me. If I sleep late, then its better to assume that mornings are gone now, nothing can be done, take it as holiday tomorrow. This also cements the idea in me that my today defines my tomorrow.

Mornings are the most beautiful and productive part of the day, and following is my routine, it might help you.

Yesterday night

• Have dinner by 6:30-7:00 and if it’s late go for a fruit diet.
• Read books, listen to music, enjoy time with family, and basically spend time doing activities that relax you (as ankur mentioned).
• Having milk before sleeping with turmeric is good. Somehow flavour is good to me, also a khapa guy, so that works for me, might now work for you.
• Plan things for tomorrow.

Mornings

• Wake up by 3:30/4/4:30, pick tasks you’ve planned and chop them off. You get beautiful those feel-good feelings.
• Go and see the sun rise, for me it’s beautiful and other adjectives.
• Exercise after saying hi to the sun.
• Cook food and be happy as you are so lucky to have that.
• Before eating, take a bath and freshen up.
• Eat food and now the day starts for me.
• Plan is to add morning prayers into this, but don’t have a pooja room in the house(have to do something for it.)

Afternoon

• This time is sold to someone else for money(sad but that’s case for now[27-Aug-2021])

If I sleep late,

• No fun mornings, admitting I have missed all of that for today.
• No alarm, but body sleep is important to me, no alarm to disturb it. Have done my deeds. It’s fine, let this morning go. Nothing can be done about it.
• If you can try to do something meaningful during the day, do that and remember most importantly sleep on time to enjoy your next morning.