How to become an early riser

Start slowly, by waking just 15-30 minutes earlier than usual.
Allow yourself to sleep earlier.
Put your alarm clock far from you bed. This way, you have to get up out of bed to shut it off.
Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm.
Set something to do early in the morning that’s important.
Make waking up early a reward: make a hot cup of coffee for example, or a tasty breakfast.
Take advantage of all that extra time .

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10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It : zen habits

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Time Management

You don't have to get up at 4 a.m. to be successful: 5 CEOs who wake up after 10 a.m.

Early risers have long been hailed as smarter, more successful, and wildly ambitious. "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," Benjamin Franklin once said. The most lauded of CEOs-PepsiCo's now former chief executive Indra Nooyi and Apple's Tim Cook, for example-spring out of bed no later than 4:30 a.m.

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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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10 Surprisingly Simple Things You Can Do to Recharge Your Mind

Waking up early, getting out of bed and starting the day has, for some reason, become the ultimate challenge for so many people. Yet, waking up early is one of the best things you can do. Why? I hear you ask. For a start, early mornings are the most beautiful time of the day.

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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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13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits : zen habits

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." - Mark Twain I've learned a lot about changing habits in the last 2 1/2 years, from quitting smoking to taking up running and GTD and vegetarianism and waking early and all that.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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.

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