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10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It : zen habits
Benefits of early rising
- Early morning hours are so peaceful and quiet.
- Rise early and you actually have time for breakfast.
- Easier to exercise. Exercising right after work is liable to be canceled because of other things that come up.
- Productivity. You can get much more done by starting on my work in the morning.
- Commute early, and the traffic is much lighter, and you get to work faster, and thus save yourself more time.
- It’s much easier to make those early appointments on time if you get up early.
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Early Birds are 15% of the population
About 1 in 2 people have relatively “normal” sleeping habits; they function most optimally when they don’t stay up too late or wake up too early and stick to a consistent sleep schedule.
Successful CEOs who are getting up late
- Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise cloud company Box
- Reddit co-founder and husband of Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian - gets up around 10 am
- Pharrell Williams doesn't use an alarm to wake himself up; he relies on his body's natural sleep habits
- Mark Zuckerberg gets up around 8 am
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Give it rest
Your rest is the most important thing you can do for your mind.
Our best way to rest is to sleep at night. During the key hours of rejuvenation, our mind gets ...
Exercise it
The endorphins that you get as a result of exercising work wonders for your mind. Researchers have shown that exercising improves overall brain function, long-term memory, and information processing skills.
Push it to the limit … sometimes
Ask your mind to remember things that you would not ordinarily try to.
- Recitation alone helps to build memory muscles in a way that helps our mind remain healthy.
- Use it to create new habits by way of 30-days or 21-day experiments.
- Erase some words from your vocabulary for the week or month.
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Taking On Two Or More Habits At Once
No matter how much enthusiasm we have for the goals, taking on even just two habits at once is setting ourselves up for failure, because greatly increases the difficulty of sticking to it.
Pick only one habit to change and devote all of your energy to that, and once it’s on autopilot, move on to the next one.