Get Up Early



Early rising is a present you offer to yourself. The practise of waking early is one of the few disciplines that has the capacity to completely change your life. The first few hours of the morning are very special. The air is filled with a profound sense of tranquilly as time seems to slow down. By becoming a member of the "Five o' Clock Club," you may start managing your day rather than having it manage you. By waking early, you may win the "Battle of the Bed" and put your "mind above mattress," giving you at least one peaceful hour to yourself during the most important portion of your day: the beginning. The remainder of your day will go well if you use your time correctly.
In the book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, I urged readers to "get up with the sun" and provided many suggestions to support them in developing this new lifestyle discipline. I can confidently declare that this is true based on the numerous letters, emails, and faxes I have received from people who have enhanced the quality of their lives by rising at 5 A.M. one key to success that is well worth incorporating into your daily life. By doing this, you will become one of many others. one of the most significant figures of our time, including Nelson Mandela, Thomas Edison, and Mahatma Gandhi to Mary Kay Ash and Ted Turner.

An office team at one marketing executive's company gave her a paperweight with the following message when her stress level dropped drastically once she started waking early, according to a reader of The Monk. A MIP to ours (Most Improved Player). Keep doing whatever you're doing. You serve as an example for all of us. She had always been a procrastinator and determined to quit snoozing and wasting her days catching up on sleep. She so started rising early in the morning, first at 6 a.m., then at 5:30 a.m., and ultimately at 5 a.m., while her family (and the rest of the world) slept. During the free time that she found she had created, she would do all the things she loved to do but had somehow never found time for. Listening carefully to classical music, writing letters, reading the classics and walking were just some of the activities that she used to rekindle her spirit and reconnect with a part of herself she thought she had lost. By getting up early, she began to care for herself again. And by doing so, she became a much better parent, spouse and professional.

To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality rather than the quantity of sleep that matters most. It is better to have six hours of uninterrupted sleep than ten hours of restless, broken sleep. Here are four tips to help you sleep more deeply:

• Don’t rehearse the activities of your day while you are lying in bed trying to get to sleep.

 • Don’t eat after 8 P.M. (If you have to eat something, have soup).

 • Don’t watch the news before you go to sleep

. • Don’t read in bed.  


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