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Everyone has this problem even myself was once a late riser. Getting up early and starting the day at or before the sunrise is the desire of most people. But hardly 3 out of 10 people can’t do it. The world’s most successful businessman, entrepreneurs attribute their success partly due to rising early.

Waking up at 6.30 or 7 in the morning didn’t did any good to my studies or work. Things had to change, I decided on working on some of the ideas I found out from some of my favorite productivity blogs. Now lets break up our “sleeping in” routine.

Here are 9 tips for becoming an early riser:

• One step at a time. You don’t need to jump straight to 4am wakening up routine. Start slowly, 15 to 30 minutes then usual. Now gradually after one or two day cut back your sleeping time. Do this gradually until you find your goal.

• Put your alarm clock far from you bed. Having an alarm clock right next to your bed is the main reason people can’t wake up, you’ll most certainly shut it off or hit snooze. Before I became an early-riser, usually i hit the snooze or shut without even waking up. Keep it in a place where you cant reach it while sleep but do make sure its not too far or you wont hear the alarm at all

• Change up your tune
  If you use the same buzzer day in and day out, you begin to develop immunity to that sound and in few days you’ll start to ignore it completely. New alarm clocks lets you setup different tones for different days. Make sure you change the tune frequently.

• Sleep early to rise early. Sleeping late at night automatically cuts down the time you get to sleep. Thats why there is always the urge to sleep for a little more time. Sleeping late is very common with today’s teenagers mostly because of watching TV or surfing the Internet. Hey boys and gals stop those social networks and digital junk if you don’t start sleeping early sooner or later your health condition will get severe .Make sure you start to sleep one and a half hours earlier then usual.

• Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm. Don’t let your brain talk into going back into your bed. Most of the time even if we get up we always tend to think! How about you getting few more minutes of sleep. Just make sure you get up of the bed. Go for a pee or get some fresh air. You mustn’t allow getting back into bed an option.

• Get into a regime. Make wakening up at a particular time a habit, I recommend setting an alarm once that repeats each day. Just because at weekends you don’t have work, you mustn’t let your inner biological clock disrupt. So make sure routine stays a routine.

• Give yourself a reason to wakeup. Give yourself a reason to wake up, getting up early just for the sake of it won’t work after few days. Wake up as if you have something to do, it maybe jogging, reading. Personally I would get up early and make myself a cup of hot coffee.

• Don’t waste your extra time. Waking up early is a great virtue, but you should ask yourself the question! Why am I awake early? Is it just because i wanna checkout those feeds, emails etc. Don’t wake up early and waste the extra time on the internet unless you are major tech-blogger in blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo. You can instead start exercising or meditating, and reading. If you are a married and have kids you can give your wife some help in preparing my kids’ lunches, iron their clothes their many things you can do.

• Enjoy the beautiful sunrise! Waking up early morning you get to see the most beautiful natural thing, the sunrise. It’s beautiful. Morning is the most peaceful and silent time. The calm winds and nature sets you in the mood for the day. So enjoy waking up early.

Wake up early is a great thing as i have mention earlier, it only takes about 1 or 2 weeks to get used too after that its a smooth sail. Now I feel myself less stressed, I get more things done and I feel happier than I did when I was a late-riser. Now question is did I missed something. How do you wake up earlier?

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Pranjal