How to become a starter

Original article address: How to Become an Early Riser
Author: Steve Pavlina
Translation: Angelived
Http://angelived.org/2007/05/22/how-to-become-an-early-riser/.

It is a good habit to get up before dawn, which will help your health, wealth, and wisdom. -- Aristotle

Get up early and get up late. -- Chinese slang

Is the habit of getting up early born or the day after tomorrow? On me, it is clearly developed the day after tomorrow. Before I was 20 years old, I seldom went to bed before midnight and almost always slept very late. I usually slept until the evening of every day to get up.

However, for some time later, I cannot ignore the close connection between success and getting up early, especially when I see this. In the days when I got up early, I realized that my production efficiency was not just in the morning, but it was a very high whole day. In addition, I felt very good. I decided to develop a good habit of getting up early, so I immediately set the alarm to A.M .........

... The next morning, I got up at noon.

Hmmm .........

I tried again several times, basically every time I woke up at that time. I began to wonder if I was carrying no early morning genes. Whenever my alarm goes off, my first reaction is always to turn it off and go back to bed. I have maintained this habit for a few years, but I finally found several sleep research articles by chance, which made me realize that I was wrong on this issue. As long as I can apply the methods obtained from these surveys to myself, I can develop a persistent habit of getting up early.

Using wrong policies makes it difficult for you to get up early, but using these correct policies is much easier.

The most common mistake is: You think that if you want to get up early, you 'd better go to bed early. Therefore, you will calculate that you usually need to sleep for several hours every day, and then calculate that you need to move back for several hours on a new basis. For example, if you want to sleep from midnight () to, you predict that if you want to sleep at, you can get up at the next day. It sounds reasonable, but it usually fails.

Currently, there are two main schools about sleep models. One school thinks that you should go to bed on time every day and get up on time. It's like you have an alarm clock at both times-you try to fall asleep at the same time every night. This seems to be adapted to the pace of modern society. We need to have an accurate schedule and ensure enough rest every day.

Another school thinks that you should rest when you are tired and wake up naturally. This approach is rooted in biology, where our bodies know how much we need to sleep, so we should follow their commands.

Through the experiment, I found that neither of them is the best sleep mode for me. If you attach importance to your production efficiency, they are all incorrect. The following are the reasons why I say this:

If your sleep time is fixed, sometimes you may not be sleepy. If it takes more than five minutes to fall asleep, it means you are not very sleepy. You are awake, lying in bed, wasting time, but cannot fall asleep. Another problem is that you think that you need the same amount of sleep time every day. This is a wrong assumption. Your sleep time varies depending on the situation of the day. I think there is another problem, for example, if you want to sleep for 8 hours every day, but sometimes you wake up early in the morning, but at this time you tell yourself: "I haven't slept enough yet. Please wait for a while." But in fact, it is almost difficult for you to fall asleep again. You just get up after grinding the time you think you need)

If you want to sleep based on your physical needs, it is very likely that your sleep time will exceed your actual needs-in most cases, for example, a week is over 10-15 hours (this is equivalent to a whole awake day ). Many people who rest in this way spend more than 8 hours each night, which is usually excessive. Moreover, if you get up at different times every morning, it is hard to predict the time you get up every day. Because sometimes our life will lose pace (for example, college students usually go to bed after on weekends, and usually go to bed at on weekdays, this will disrupt the pace of life), you may find that your sleep time has become erratic.

The best solution is to combine the two. The method is very simple. Many people have been consciously and unconsciously using this method. Even so, it is a huge psychological breakthrough for me. The solution is to go to bed when I feel sleepy (only when I feel sleepy) and set an alarm at a fixed time every day (seven days a week, get up immediately after the sound. Therefore, I always get up at the same time every day (I decided to get up at AM), but the time I go to bed is different every night.

I went to bed when I was sleepy. My way to test my sleep is: If I cannot read one or two pages of a book continuously, I am going to bed. In most cases, when I go to bed, I will fall asleep within three minutes. I lie down comfortably and immediately fell asleep. Sometimes I will go to bed at half past nine, and sometimes I will not go to bed until midnight. The usual situation is that I go to bed between and. If I never want to go to bed, I will stay busy until I can't open my eyes to go to bed. During this period of time, reading is a good choice, because when I am so sleepy that I cannot read it, it is generally obvious that I will go to bed immediately.

Every morning when my alarm clock rings, I turn it off, stretch it out, and then sit up. I don't want anything at this time, because I know that the longer I stay in bed, the more likely I will go to bed. Therefore, once the alarm is triggered, I will not be able to go to bed for a while. Even if I want to sleep for a while, I usually get up immediately.

After sticking to this pattern for a period of time, I found that my sleep pattern gradually changed to a rhythm. If I had not enough sleep time the night before, I would naturally go to bed early the next night to get enough sleep. If my energy is very strong and I don't feel tired at all, I will go to bed less. My body learns when to wake me up, because it knows that I usually get up at that moment of every day.

A good result of doing so is that I reduced my sleeping time every night by 90 minutes on average, but I felt more relaxed, I think this is mainly because I have been sleeping in bed.

I have learned that the insomnia people are all those who want to go to bed while they are not sleepy. If you don't sleep, and you find that you cannot immediately fall asleep, get up immediately and keep your mind awake for a while. Wait until your body starts to secrete hormones, and your consciousness begins to blur. Then you go to bed. If you can go to bed while you are asleep and get up at a fixed time, your insomnia will not cure yourself. You may be late on the first night, but you will fall asleep immediately after going to bed. You may feel tired when you are sleeping for only a few hours all night, but after a busy day, you will want to go to bed early the next night. After a period of time, you can get into the habit of going to bed at a certain time every night and falling asleep quickly.

So if you want to be an early starter (or just want to control your sleep mode more), try this: you only need to go to bed when you are too sleepy to continue. You get up at the same fixed time every morning.

PS: For more information about how to become an early starter, I have introduced some details. For details, refer to: How to become an early starter (2)

English:

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Combine combines and integrates the combine the two solutions.
Correlation is related to the correlation between success and rising early.
The solution is applicable and practical for practical applications. This solution is effective.
Adequate appropriate, enough we need adequate rest. we need enough sleep
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Release secretion, radiation, emission, and release
Hormone release hormone secretion hormone
Consciousness awareness
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Strategy