How To Be An Early Bird?
For many of us
waking up early is falling out of bed, wandering around like a zombie until that third cup of coffee, and then taking a mid-morning nap just to feel semi-okay. Not anymore! To effectively be an early bird, you will have to reset your sleep schedule, develop effective waking-up-early habits, and become more of a morning person than you currently are.
Our body needs rest but once the required rest time is completed you shouldn’t feel inactive to come out of the bed, no matter even if it is early in the morning. Waking up early in the morning is need not to be always a challenge, especially if you are able to time your body in the right way. So, here the first aim is to make sure that you will complete your daily sleep quota before it is time to get up. However, if you are lacking the quality on your sleep quota it might be difficult for you to get out of bed early in the morning on a daily basis, but you can also certainly do that for few days and cover up the required
hours of sleep on a holiday.
So, here we’ll explore some tricks and tips to become an early bird
Set the alarm to start with:
Once, if you have adopted the habit of waking up early, you can able to wake up daily even without an alarm; but to start with the process of adopting the habit an alarm can one of the best help. Set your alarm to the decided time, when you want to wake up in the morning, not 15 minutes prior. Because once you set it for 15 minutes prior you will always know that you have 15 minutes extra time in hand to sleep and there are maximum chances that you will get back to sleep again without actually waking up on the alarm.
Set the right conditions for a good sleep:
Creating the right atmosphere is also essential to make sure that you are able to sleep early and properly which will help you to complete your sleep quota completely. You should be in a relaxed mood before going to bed and always make it as the main point to have a light diet at least one and half hours before going to bed. It is a good option to take a relaxed bath 15 minutes prior to going to bed; this will
relax your senses and body and will make it easier to fall asleep quickly.
By watching TV, laptop or even mobile screen for long before going to bed will also cause a delay in sleeping or deals to improper sleep, so stay away from the electronic gadgets before you go to bed.
Sleep early:
This will be surely the very basic yet most effective way to wake up early in the morning. As already said, that our body requires a certain amount of sleep and rest; When you complete the required sleep quota, try to
wake up on your own, without seeking help from anyone. So, if you go to bed early enough and get the required sleep you will be most expected to wake up early in the next morning on your own and will not feel weak or drowsy the whole of the next day.
Don’t get back to sleep once you are awake:
Often it happens that we wake up 15-30 minutes early before the time which we set to wake up, and normally, we will commonly again get back to sleep for that small span of time and will miss to wake up at the scheduled time. So, if you happen to wake up earlier than you have planned, do not get back to bed again, better engage yourself in some other activities that you enjoy. In this way, you can adapt your body to wake up early and make it a habit.
Join a group of early birds:
This will be another effective way to wake up early in the morning. If you join some cultural or activity group of people who meets together and performs their
activities early in the morning, you can easily make it out of bed early enough.
Once if you are habituated with the above tips you can wake up as soon as the first light of the day falls on you, and you will be able to wake up early in the morning easily, even if the curtains are shut.
