Are you a person that finds the very sound of the alarm clock unwanted?
Do you ever look at the time on your watch before sleeping and start counting how many hours you have to sleep?
Do you always feel that you cannot manage to get enough sleep?
Even if someday you have to wake up early, you cannot be a normal person with your dark coffee or a strong tea?
The very thought of something interrupting your morning sleep makes your skin crawl?
And if you answered yes for at least 2 of the questions mentioned above, then there might be a couple more questions you fit into like,
Do you really want to change it?
Do you wish to wake up early? Etc, but most of all
I can assure you that this article will make a difference.
Now waking up late is not the end of the world, although it will end up making a hole in your productivity. And little by little consume entire of your life, starting with your one whole morning.
So if you feel like you need to wake up on time, then please listen to your instinct and make a change, even it is a teeny weeny small one but do it.
And if you are dwelling on “HOW?” then definitely keep reading.
A full disclosure,
In my opinion, there’s no big deal about waking up late; it depends on when you feel comfortable starting your day., even if it is in the middle of the afternoon. But if you aren’t happy about it and really feel like bringing a change in it, then you have clicked into a valued article.
Starting with
What is a morning person?
Putting it into very simple words, a morning person is a person who wakes up happily in the morning, and obviously goes to sleep early!
Simply if you “willingly” wake up at or near the break of dawn, you are a morning person!
That little word “willingly” is the difference-maker here. If you wake up early in the morning and you don’t want to! That will never serve you anything except monotonous disappointment.
Summing up, merely waking up at 5 or 6 or 8 in the morning because “you have to” for your job, school, training, gym, doesn’t make you a morning person. But your will to wake up and make the day count for something does make you a morning person. And a satisfactory one, I would say!
It takes a lot to wake up early, and it doesn’t start with the very first day, now if you have been brought up as an early riser, you were a lucky duck, if not you can always form new habits that serve you better. And with some everyday efforts, you can overcome it easily.
Commonly the first few days will leave you with many concerns like:
- Waking up feeling lazy and worthless.
- Dizzyness.
- Waking up feeling like all you want to do is get back in your bed.
- Hard to step out of your bed and your cozy blanket.
- Body ache (a little).
- You are feeling like quitting.
And much more!
Early days of cultivating this habit will leave you lazy if you don’t have the habit of waking up early at all. Also to mention precisely, you will definitely start realizing your love for sleep 😉
According to me and as simple as I can put this, these are all excuses because of laziness!
Further, thanks to your laziness you will start to think that sleeping is the only best thing you could do for yourself.
So Looking into it lets question ourselves!
Why it feels lazy to be a morning person?
Evidently,
You either feel lazy because you don’t have the will to wake up and get going
Or
You didn’t have enough amount of sleep/rest the previous night.
Maybe there are a ton of reasons for being lazy, but according to me apart from the a & b mentioned above, rest are mere excuses.
Excuses don’t serve anyone anything; the sooner you realize it, everything becomes simpler than you thought.
Now, let me put a line or two about what helps for not being lazy?
Benefits of Not Being Lazy
First and foremost
Take a good look at your refreshments.
The more refreshed and energized you are, the less you feel like zoning out.
Next, and I cannot emphasize this more,
Get an adequate amount of sleep
Sleep is an essential aspect of your life. You couldn’t possibly be thinking of waking up early unless you start sleeping on time. There is an amount of sleep that your body demands to function efficiently.
If you mess with it, you will have a disturbed schedule.
And according to studies, 6-8 hours of sleep is the ideal amount of sleep you should get. That concludes you should be sleeping on time to wake up on time.
So planning your waking hours according to it might really help with your unwillingness and lazy blues of waking up early in the morning.
Health problems
If you have some medical conditions that you are taking counter the top medicines for, then it might alter with your body functions for inducing more sleep. In such a case, you should consult your designated doctor and get your query solved.
A right amount of helpful suggestions are covered so far, but the best part is yet to come. And that is
What is the benefit of being a morning person?
What will you get by being a morning person?
What are the advantages of it?
(p.s. If you don’t want to be a morning person, you are smart enough to put together a couple of disadvantages. So I am not going to mention even a single one of it)
And also if you were looking for that extra emphasis on what good things are waiting for you if you sacrifice your night owl characteristic and switch to being a morning person here you have it:
Positive sides of being a Morning Person
I could go on explaining this in a thousand words, but for now, I will keep it short and precise:
- You get to see the sunrise
- You get to be a person that has control over their sleeping routine
Some Health benefits of waking up early in the morning are:
- You get enough time to exercise, which will 100% contribute to your fitness.
- You get enough time to make a healthy breakfast.
- Subsequently, eat that healthy breakfast in peace. (Don’t forget, you are what you eat).
- Manageable energy throughout the day. (So you are less likely to be completely exhausted at the end of the day.)
Further Self-improving benefits include:
- Less procrastination.
- It makes you punctual.
- It helps you learn how you can stick to a schedule.
- It makes you realize the value of the time you’ve been sleeping around.
- It gives your life a sense of purpose.
More comprehensive benefits are:
If you experience the benefits mentioned above, your life is going to get better personally and professionally., which will surely reflect on your personality, relationships, work-life, and much more.
So if you wake up early, then even if you have the busiest schedule in the world, you will have at least 5 seconds to have a positive outlook on your life and appreciate it. And no amount of pulling an all-nighter will give you the same feeling.
And if you can now understand now why there’s a reason that night and day are two different phases of time. Good for you.
Therefore if you are determined enough and you made it this far in a hooked manner, then I am sure you will be a morning person real soon. And keep reading a few lines more, and you are all ready to be a morning person from today itself.
How to be a morning person?
Waking up early every day will take time; this will require efforts, but it will be all worth it.
- Stick to an arrangement
- Manage your time.
- Wake up when you have decided, do not delay it. Do not press that snooze button a hundred times.
- Plan and get enough sleep. Earlier days, it will be challenging, but you will get familiar with it.
- Don’t go back doing the same old shit after a few days.
Hence, wrapping it up, you can get through it easily. With some determined efforts, you will have a totally different lifestyle in a time span of a few weeks. You might go back to being up all night or be up until it’s just half an hour left for your alarm to ring, and it’s okay you can do it with consistent efforts.
And if being the night owl is all you have decided, then that is fine too, but if this big piece of written words lit even a tiny little flint in you to wake up and actually do something, then do it.
And looking back, this small little change you made will be your best recalled and most advised pattern of life.
So get that groove on and be the morning person. It is one of the best things you will do for yourself.
Very little, but very mighty.
Thanks for reading.