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How I Became a Morning Person

Morning Sun

Morning Sun

Don't underestimate the importance of light in waking up. We're hard-wired to wake up when it's light and get sleepy when it's dark

It is best to watch the sunrise and wake up your mind using the positive effect of light.

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A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person

A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/smarter-living/night-owl-sleep-guide.html

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I love staying up late, but I hate struggling through the mornings. Here's how I adapted, and how you can, too. The world isn't made for night owls. You struggle into work in the dark hours before 10 a.m.

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The problem with staying up late

Long days can leave us tired and exhausted. But, our days would be less hard and exhausting if we weren't so tired through them.

Most night owls have to wake a similar time to other people...

Learn to love a good night's sleep

When trying to change your sleep habits, don't give up too soon. Keep it up for a week. The days will get easier, and you'll learn to love sleep again.

To get to bed earlier, slow down in the evenings. Read a book rather than engaging with your smartphone or laptop. Listening to music is good too.

Have something to get up for

Schedule something fun or desirable to look forward to in the morning before work. 

It could include coffee, the news, gym or uninterrupted smartphone access.

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

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

https://zenhabits.net/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it/

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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" - Ben Franklin, famously "Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ..." - Mark Twain Recently, reader Rob asked me about my habit of waking at 4:30 a.m.

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

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

https://www.fastcompany.com/90292573/you-dont-have-to-get-up-at-4-am-to-be-successful-5-ceos-who-wake-up-after-10-am?partner=rss

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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