If you have decided to spare some of your valuable time to read this article, then you are aware of the benefits of waking up early.
This article will reinforce your belief that waking up early in the morning has all-round benefits that can make your life easy and comfortable.
And you will also learn about very easy and simple steps that will help you to wake up early very easily and very comfortably every morning.
Let us discuss some benefits of waking up early in the morning.
i. Efficient Time Management
Just like everyone else, you also get 24 hours every day to complete the various tasks in your personal and professional life.
People who are successful make the best use of these 24 hours, primarily because they wake up early in the morning.
We will discuss some examples of such successful people later in this article.
When you say that you want to wake up early, then that means that you want to wake up at or before 5.30 am.
When you wake up early, it becomes very easy for you to reach your school or office on time very easily and very comfortably, you do not have to rush like mad in order to be on time.
ii. Efficient Health Management
Calming your mind for 15 minutes before the sunrise is the best form of meditation as you get to control your mind, which otherwise is an expert in wandering around.
After you control the mind, you can then easily focus it on doing some physical exercises. Exercising will help your body to have better blood circulation and will help you increase your energy level to start the day on a very high note.
Having a healthy mind and a healthy body will help you to keep diseases like high blood pressure and high sugar level away.
iii. Nurturing Life
The modern age life has made you so busy that your focus is completely on the means of earning your livelihood and the people surrounding you like your family members, colleagues, and friends.
You need to do your best to earn well in order to take care of your financial requirements and you need to do your best to manage your relationships. But above all, you need to realize that this is a vicious circle of earning and socialising because sparing some of your valuable time to appreciate the bliss of having eye-sight and the sight of the nature that surrounds you, helps you to live a wholesome and contented life.
Life extends beyond the surrounding that you live in. Even one lifetime is not enough to explore what this great planet offers. The great oceans which form 97 percent of this planet act mostly as a roadway for transporting goods, and hide secrets which we have barely heard of.
But you have the sky above you which is easy to observe and keeps transforming from the time before the sunrise to the time after the sunset.
Your mind and body, your personal life and professional life, all have been synchronized with this transformation of the sky, and which is the very reason for your waking up and sleeping.
Imagine what kind of discipline you can bring into your life when you accept and appreciate the fact that your life is controlled by the sun which is a marvel on its own in this universe, and you respect this fact by waking up before the sunrise every day.
The sun powers this planet and nurtures every form of life on this planet. When you synchronize your life with the sun and follow its pattern of rise and set, you will be bound to enhance the energy within you, which you may call as your soul or your inner self, and which in its enhanced form will nurture everyone and everything that gets in touch with your physical being.
Some Well-Known Early Risers
The achievement of the successful people in our human society is an inspiration for all of us.
So let us now discuss ten such successful people who are early risers and who can inspire you to wake up early in the morning.
i. Benjamin Franklin (One of the Founding Fathers of the United States)
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and was also known for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
He is the one who coined the term “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.
He used to wake up by 5 am.
ii. Michelle Obama (First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017)
Michelle starts her day with 4.30am workout.
She says that if she does not exercise, she doesn’t feel good and gets depressed.
iii. Sergio Marchionne ( CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles from 2004 to 2018)
Under Sergio’s leadership, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles emerged as the seventh largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
He used to wake up at 3.30 am in the morning.
iv. Mary Barra (CEO of General Motors since 2014)
Mary used to reach her office by 6 am even before she became CEO.
So guess what time she must be waking up!
v. Jack Dorsey (Co-founder and CEO of Twitter)
Jack wakes up at 5.30 am to meditate and go for a six-mile jog.
vi. Indra Nooyi (CEO of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018)
Fortune magazine ranked Indra Nooyi #1 in the list of most powerful women in business in 2009 and 2010.
Indra wakes up at 4 am and starts her work by 7am every day.
vii. Tim Cook (CEO of Apple Inc. Since 2011)
The tech titan Tim Cook is known for getting up early.
He wakes up at 3.45 am every morning.
viii. Jeff Immelt (CEO of General Electric from 2001 to 2017)
Jeff wakes up at 5.30 am every day for a cardio workout.
ix. Dwayne Johnson (WWE wrestler and Hollywood Superstar)
The Rock doesn’t just wake up early, in fact he has a whole app dedicated to it. You can emulate the man himself by waking up at the same time as him every day, which is around 5.30 am.
x. Howard Schultz ( CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company from 1986 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2017)
Howard wakes up at 4.30 am every morning.
Hope all these successful people have now inspired you to wake up early every morning.
Now it is time for us to discuss three very simple steps that you can adopt to wake up early easily.
i. Eat light
When you eat heavy meals, your body uses lot of energy to digest the food and consequently, you feel exhausted and find it difficult to wake up early the next morning.
Keeping your body light and hydrated is a key preparation to wake up early the next morning.
ii. Finish dinner by 6 pm
You must have read or heard about the process of photosynthesis in plants which fuels them, for which the sunlight is the basic requirement.
Similarly, sunlight helps in proper digestion in humans.
Hence, in some cultures, people finish dinner before the sunset.
If you have a job which takes you out frequently or if you are not able to come home by 6 pm, then try to have your dinner in the office itself.
By finishing your dinner by 6 pm, you give your body the extra time to digest the food properly even before you go to bed for the night’s sleep.
iii. Respect the Night’s Sleep
Every night you need a good sleep because it relaxes your heart rate and muscles, and your body repairs its cells and tissues and replenishes itself.
Philosophically, sleep is the journey of your soul or your sub-conscious mind which makes you dream and you can make this journey to be a happy one, when you give your body a good sleep.
You can have a good night’s sleep with these simple steps:
A. Clean your body properly, which also includes brushing teeth and scraping tongue.
This is mandatory, if you want to have a good night’s sleep.
B. Do your best to get rid of the negative feelings before you go to sleep at night.
You may meditate to relax your mind before you go to bed.
C. You need 1-2 hours of deep sleep to replenish your body.
So you need to go to bed atleast 6 and ½ hours before the time you want to wake up.
For example, if you want to wake up by 5am, then you need to go to bed atleast by 10.30 pm.
(Note: The average healthy adult gets roughly 1-2 hours of deep sleep per 8 hours of nightly sleep)
Disengage yourself completely from everything else especially your mobile phone, once you get on your bed.
Using the mobile phone causes distraction and it is the most important reason that people nowadays suffer due to lack of sleep.
A bad night’s sleep decreases your body’s immunity and reduces your energy level, which can have negative impact on your personal and professional life.
Therefore, you need to respect your sleep every night.
These three very simple steps, that is, eating light, finishing dinner by 6pm and respecting the night’s sleep will help you to wake up early every morning and reap its benefits.
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