When it comes to talking about waking up early especially when you are not an early riser, it’s really tough and impossible to do it right away. And it’s more frustrating why getting up early always get ill feeling and tired for the whole day. If you are still looking for basic tips and tricks to know how to wake up early, you’re on the right track.
Here are some steps that would help you feel more energized and eliminate feeling tired of tiredness in the early morning.Â
1. Prepare The Night Before
Why preparing the night before is important to get rid of tiredness when you’re walking up early? That’s impossible. You might have a similar question in your mind, Therefore, we’re ready to explain its more convincingly.
Old-school ways to wake up early sound very general and seem to be easy to implement. But there is a part often being overlooked: to prepare well the night before. Because we are just a biological human, we aren’t like machines or anything automatic system working continuously regardless of times or days. According to many sleep experts, spending 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day is the best way to achieve a healthy mental and physical state. We also have no choice to accept that we cannot sleep too late and wake up early without getting tired and vice versa. Therefore, we want to emphasize here is walking up without feeling tired is not only about the quality of hour of sleep, but also about how you prepare the night before.
Adjusting activities schedule before the bedtime by moving time a bit earlier and leave unnecessary activities such as scrolling time on social media, late night drink, party, and so on. So, what exactly do you gonna do to prepare at the night before?
Here are some easy-doing steps to help you reach a wakeness state in the early morning:
- Sleep early
- Imagine one thing must do first when opening your eyes
- Summer is a perfect season to practice get up because the sun rises early and the weather is quite favorable
2. Set Low Expectations
Creating a good habit is never seen as an easy task and always takes time. Sometimes doing a good thing makes you doubt that is it worth to do this? We here to confirm that you would be never regret about the choice you make, no matter how hard and annoyed feeling cause for the first time, just stay positive and shift your sleep schedule a bit early day by day, and then until it closer to your time goal.
Indeed, trying not to set high expectations to get the result in 2 or 3 days because when forcing too hard just make you give up faster; we apparently don’t want to waste your valuable time doing something good and then give it up without second chance.
For those reasons, we do recommend that make a little change day by day combined with setting low expectations, the result will come unexpectedly. You’re going to be so great at waking up early as just like a baby learn how to walk, or ride a bike, you’ll get hang of this.
We’ve been there: You’re just setting yourself up for value. Now you see, when you do to bed too late and wake up early, your body start to react as it were going through a sleep-deprivation cycle and that’s not good for your! Because your body needs time to adjust the new schedule or else it unable to be ready for you to get a productive day ahead. We make sure that the feeling of fatigue won’t go away until you have another thinking and another way to be an expert.
There are some guidelines will help you defeat tiredness feeling:
- Set low expectation because forming a habit need at least 2 weeks for your body get used to it
- Move up bedtime from 15 to 15 minutes gradually every week until reach your time goal
- Record and track time everyday to get control
- Acceptable to miss for 1 or 2 days within a week
3. Stay Consistency
As a newbie, staying consistency is a key for you to maintain and get ready to keep up with new habit. So, how do you do to keep it? The keys are spending time appreciate your efforts and writing down what you get and how you feel in the end of the day.
Spending time appreciating your efforts is a great way to keep yourself motivated and focused on your goals. It should be easy to help you stay consistent overtime and also help trigger your commitment like the feeling of knowing what you’re making progress toward the things that matter most to you, and you’re now living with full hands of control in your life.
Noticing how much better early morning are when you wake up before anyone else, what do you get in that day about your work and your personal life? By practicing and writing all the results you’ve got, you will feel how much better it comes to your feeling, then keep those habits as a way to continuously remind yourself and get motivated to be consistent with the new habit in your life is WAKE UP EARLY.
4. Doing Activities Stimulate Wakeness
- Expose to sunlight
- Turn on artificial light (overhead light)
- Drink water
- Wash your face
- Shower with cold water
- Start with your favorite routine
- Spend 20-30 minutes to exercise
Expose to sunlight is also very important part you need to consider to do first in the beginning of the day. As Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist, researched that sunlight plays a crucial role in regulating our internal body clock. Exposure to sunlight activities the hormone melatonin, which is simple understand by contributing to the waking up of the brain and body. Direct exposure to sunlight is much more effective then viewing it through window, as windows tend to filter out many blue light wavelength that are necessary for activating the eyes and providing the wake-up signal. Because in the sunlight and light also trigger the release of cortisol, which helps to further awaken us, particularly when we view it directly.
Here is another question “Is there another way to trigger your wake-up signal when your room cannot reach sunlight or the weather is bad outside?” The perfect answer for that question is turn on artificial lights, in particular overhead lights, can stimulate the release of cortisol, a hormone associated with wakefulness.Â
While light can certainly help your body recognize that it’s time to wake up, I don’t think it tells the whole story. In my experience, waking up early became much easier once I started paying attention to the small things surrounding my mornings. Sometimes it’s what you do the night before, the expectations you set for yourself, or the simple routine you put in a place that make the biggest difference.Â
5. It's Never Too Late to Become an Early Riser
Waking up early isn’t about becoming a completely different person overnight. It’s about making small changes that gradually make your mornings a little easier. Some days will go well, and some days won’t-and that’s perfectly normal.
If you’ve wanted to wake up earlier but haven’t made it stick yet, don’t be too hard on yourself. Habits don’t always happen the moment we decide we want them. Sometimes the intention stays with us until we’re finally ready to take action.
What matters is that the desire to improve is there. In my experience, genuine intention rarely disappear. They stay in the background, slowly shaping our decisions until one day we take that first step.
So start small, be patient with yourself, and keep going. It is never too late to begin, and every small effort counts.
Thank you for being here, and I hope something in this article helps make your next morning a little easier.
