Learning How to Wake Up Earlier has been a total game changer for my life and business. No only do I get more done, and feel more productive as well, but waking up earlier has made me a happier person as well. This video shows you my three best tactics for waking up earlier than you are now.
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Wake Up Early Tactic #1: Make Sure You Know Exactly What You’re Going to Work On
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up early knowing I had a lot of stuff to do, but laid in bed and fallen back asleep.
Why?
Aside from just not wanting to leave my cocoon of blankets, on those days, I didn’t have a clear path laid out for me.
I knew I had work to do, but I didn’t know specifically what I was going to do, or when I was going to do it.
So I followed the path of least resistance: I went back to sleep.
These days the last thing I do every single day before shutting my laptop is to spend 5-10 minutes looking at my tasks and deciding which ones I’m going to focus on in the morning.
This makes it much easier to get up, get right down to work, and get over the fact it’s early because I’m excited about the business I’m building and the things I’m working on.
Want to know how I decide which tasks to do when? This post explains it all.
Wake Up Early Tactic #2: Schedule Something Fun in the Afternoon
It’s no secret that a lot of the time I like to stop working at noon.
And the way I’m able to do this, and still get a full day of work done, is by scheduling something fun in the afternoons.
For me this is often golf, meeting a friend for coffee, going out and shooting video – whatever it is that will bring you joy.
The reason this works so well is because I’ll spend all day looking forward to doing that activity – and the last thing I’d want to do is have to cancel it because I didn’t get my work done.
So on days where I know I have a lot to do, I’ll give myself a hard cut off at 12, which will force me to wake up earlier in order to get everything done.
Wake Up Early Tactic #3: Go to Bed Earlier
Yes, totally simple and obvious, right?
Well, yeah, it is.
But it also works.
I pretty much know that from 9-11pm I’m not going to do anything overly productive. Usually, it will be watching TV, drink with friends, play a video game, or read. While that stuff is all well and good, I know if I go to bed two hours earlier, and wake up two hours earlier, that time from 5-7am will be much more productive than my time was in the evening.
Once I began looking at it like that, it became much easier to both go to bed earlier, and wake up earlier.
Oh, and limiting the alcohol definitely helps in this process as well.
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