How To Wake Up Early

Take a minute to imagine how much more productive you would be if you were able to wake up just an hour or two earlier in the morning. They'd be nothing and nobody to distract you from getting on with whatever you want! The only things stopping you are the sleeping habits that you've built up over the years. You may have tried in the past to reverse these habits but without the proper techniques that it's very hard to do. Fortunately I'm going to share with you five tips that will make waking up early every morning a piece of cake!

1. Go to sleep earlier! This is perhaps the most important of these tips. Realistically you can't expect to go to sleep at 1am and then be able to wake up as fresh as a daisy at 5am. A good rule of thumb is to aim for seven hours sleep. That means that if you want to wake up at 5am you should be going to sleep at 10pm.

2. Build a routine. The human mind responds well to routine and quickly forms routine into habit. In the example above I said that you should be asleep by 10pm, well that means you should also be in bed by 9:30pm at the latest. Even before then though you have an opportunity to prepare your mind and body for sleep. A good routine would be to finish all chores and tasks by 8pm and then to start unwinding by perhaps taking a bath and the reading a book. Try doing this for a few days and you will soon find that you actually start to become sleepy as soon as you pick up your book as your mind knows it is soon time to fall asleep according to the routine you have been following.

3. Set your alarm and place it at the other end of the room! The snooze button will probably be your worst enemy in your efforts to wake up earlier. That is why you should set for alarm for the exact time you want to wake up (don't try and trick yourself by setting it early and then snoozing for thirty minutes) and put it somewhere where you'll have to get up to turn it off. You might even want to set up two or three alarms in this manner!

4. Drink a drink. After you've been sleeping for seven hours your body will be dehydrated. That is why it's a good idea to put a glass of water by your bed. As soon as you wake up (or turn off those alarms!) drink the full glass of water. This will hydrate and energize your body, making you feel a lot more awake and less likely to hop back into bed.

5. Program your mind. This may sound a tricky task since you're not a robot or computer, but you can actually program your mind with a technique known as hypnosis. Hypnosis speaks to the part of your mind which holds yours habits and routines which is why it's so effective for people looking to quit smoking or lose weight. The same can also be said of waking up early. You can find hypnosis MP3s on the subject of waking up early and they really do work!

Now you know how you can wake up early every morning I expect to see you bright and early tomorrow morning. 5am sharp!

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Wake up early every morning with this great Wake Up Early Hypnosis MP3 from HypnoBusters.

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