If you want to be your most productive self, it’s time to change your habits. You know that waking up early is one of the best ways to be more productive. You know that many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs are early risers. Yet no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to stop hitting snooze. You don’t have to let productivity slip through your hands forever
Here are the five tricks to waking up early;
1. MOTIVATE YOURSELF BY CHASING SMALL WINS:
What certainly gives you a lot of extra quiet hours to get things done is waking up at 5 a.m, but if your normal wake-up time is 8:30 a.m, you won’t succeed at waking up at 5 a.m right away. Instead of relying on logic and setting a goal of waking up two hours earlier, try half an hour earlier. When you reach that goal, you’ll have generated a small win.
2. USE PEER PRESSURE TO WAKE UP ON TIME:
Set a meeting with other early risers first thing in the morning. This is effective because it not only creates accountability, but you won’t want to let them down. Besides, it uses biological signals; studies have shown that when we have something important to do at a certain time, our bodies will wake us up naturally. That’s why you wake up right before your alarm if the task is important enough.
3. TRY GETTING UP JUST ONE MINUTE EARLIER (EACH DAY):
Also, setting your alarm earlier doesn’t always mean you will rise earlier. If you find yourself constantly hitting “snooze” until your regular wake-up time, your body probably needs time to adjust. Instead of a 5 a.m. wake-up right away, set your alarm one minute earlier every second day until you’ve reached your goal. In a month, you’ll wake up 15 minutes earlier and hardly notice.
4. MAKE WAKING UP EASIER BY MANIPULATING YOUR ENVIRONMENT:
The truth is, you are far more likely to stick with a habit if you engineer your environment. For instance, you are more likely to exercise if your gym clothes are set out. You can engineer your environment to wake up early by putting your alarm clock across the room so as to get up to turn it off.
5. GIVE YOURSELF AN IRRESISTIBLE REASON TO WAKE UP EARLY:
If your morning vision is to run when you wake up, but you don’t like running, you associate early rising with something unpleasant. Change sticks when it’s associated with something pleasant. Plan to do something you love during your early mornings. When your early-morning plan includes something you’re excited about, that snooze button stops seeing so much action.
Waking up early is truly easier with these tricks. Remember that successful people equally wake up early so, be one of them this time!