I would like to learn to wake up early. How do you do it? What is your motivation?

To start, I’d recommend discovering your chronotype (if you’re a morning person, night person, or in between). I know there’s a lot of pressure to be a morning person, but there’s no moral benefit. The best thing to do is to wake up with your body’s natural rhythm. However, if you still want to be a morning person, using light is one of the best ways to reset your circadian rhythm. Decide when you want to go to bed so you get enough sleep before your desired wake up time. Then, two hours before bed, wear red glasses so you don’t see white or yellow light. White and yellow light tell your brain it’s daytime and it needs to be awake. If you block those with red glasses, your brain thinks it’s night and will wind down for bed. In the morning, when you wake up turn on white, or even blue, lights. LED or fluorescent lights are good for this. They tell your brain it’s morning and it needs to wake up. Also, going outside in the morning without glasses or contacts and looking at the blue sky (not the sun) will also help your brain reset your circadian rhythm.

My motivation is actually planning fun things, also a gentle alarm works. I have many interests and I thought I didn’t have enough time for it but turns out planning a couple of sessions that take up a couple of hours a day gives me everyday to improve little by little. So that’s my motivation.

🤔…You just do it there is no learning in waking up early. You have to wake up early when you go to work so you already doing it.

Honestly, I get up early because of the work, so after 2 years my body just adjusted to it. Yoga makes me want to get up happy, otherwise I would be grumpy all day.

Success in my life is all that matters to me, and in order to succeed, I must succeed in managing my time and making it serve me, and arranging my time makes me feel a successful person, and my motivation is to reach the great success that I plan.

I’ve had deep conversations with friends about this topic. Some are morning people. Some are not so much (myself included). I am fascinated with the psychology of morning people. I think the key differentiator stands with the first conscious moment that comes after waking. It’s a cluster of impulses and emotions and the mind recognizing General patterns, waking up and having that first conscious moment. But it all boils down to the first thing you think. The morning people are thinking simple things like “what’s the next step to my day? What’s some part of the ‘today’ problem that I can begin solving?” Non morning people think “just a few more moments of sleep I’d love to go back to bed.” I’m in that latter camp, let me hit snooze. But I’ve taken to, as an auxiliary part of my morning ritual, mindfully asking myself “what is one thought I could change or simply be aware of that would make me more likely to get out of bed?” It forces my head to start thinking about why I want more sleep. But fundamentally, it’s changing the pattern. Before, the pattern was “back to bed!” Now the pattern is …”back to bed! Wait, why? …okay, cool, back to bed.” Sometimes, I get up. But, it’s a statistical improvement, and I’ll accept the Kaizen-oriented micro-iteration. 👋🏻

One day before imagine the person whom you consider as idol in your life and imagine that person telling you, motivating you to wake up early in the morning for your better future.

I set my alarm clock so that I have plenty of time to get up, get dressed, and do things to get ready in the mornings without feeling rushed. I found that once I had begun to get up early, my body naturally started waking up earlier than I had before. It’s so much better than wasting the day away in bed!

Depending on how much earlier you want to wake up, you may need to go to bed earlier. I think one of the ways to make it stick easiest is to create a morning routine that you look forward to; for instance I started waking up at 6am because I never had time to read my Bible once the day got going. That was before I even started using fabulous, but the anticipation of getting to start the day with something I really appreciated (and coffee 😉 was enough to motivate me to do it each day. Once I downloaded fabulous and started to learn how important that first bottle of water is then that compounded my anticipation because I knew I was building a habit that would help me focus even more in that time of reading that I wanted from the start. Ultimately, I think if you want to wake up early it should be to fuel something that you don’t normally make time for throughout the stresses of daily life. I tell my friends, honestly, that everyone can wake up at least 30min earlier without a huge overall in lifestyle, and that is an amazing place to start if it means getting a little time back for things you appreciate and love. PS: set an alarm and put your phone across the room! That was huge for me too 🙂

I find it easy to wake up early when I have something to look forward to. For example, I enjoy starting my day with a cup of tea in a quiet room watching the sunrise. It’s calming, and allows me to mentally prepare for the day to come.