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
Benefit of being early riser
- Amazing start
- Peace
- Sunrise
- Breakfast
- Exercise
- Productivity
- Goal time
7 ways to raise early
- Don’t make drastic changes and start simple and gradually.
- Allow yourself to sleep earlier before you feel like sleeping
- Put your alarm clock far from you bed where you are required to walk
- Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm
- Do not rationalize the reason to wake up early, just get up and think later
- Have a good reason before you sleep and remember it.
- Make waking up early a reward daily. Let it be anything.
Souce: zenhabit.org
Would definitely agree with #6. For me, not having a reason was a barrier to early rising for a very long time. Oh, and by the way it’s http://zenhabits.net not http://zenhabit.org