Jumpstart Your Day For Success Before Sunrise, A 5 Step Guide

If you meet anyone that has had success in what they do, they will most likely tell you a key tip is to get up early and start your day ahead of everyone else.

Here’s my 5 step guide to doing so.

Jumpstart To Success

1. Get Quality Sleep - It’s not about the quantity at all. I’ve never subscribed to the thought that you need 8 hours of sleep a day. Yeah the average person might need it. But you’re trying to be above that. So how exactly do you get quality sleep? The four below points will tell you how I’m doing it.
2. Stretch Don’t Sit - You need to get some form of exercise or the other to get your system back into the flow again. Actually it’s more about your mindset than your system. Your system follows what your mind tells it too. There’s nothing like a cool morning breeze {not too cold though} to invigorate your body for the day ahead. Don’t go and sit down at your work desk right away.
3. Get Ready The Night Before - If you plan on starting a new routine in your diet, work or household chores plan ahead for it the night before. If you know what you need to do once you’re up you do it much faster. Don’t try to pick up yesterdays pieces today. If you have too much that needs taking care of prioritize the most important ones, delete stuff that you can do without and balance stuff that can be.
4. Cut Out Distractions - Do you really need your computer, TV and iPod playing all the same time? Especially early in the morning! People think that if they have all these sources of information on at the same time they’ll be informed of everything they need to be. After all we live in the information age, right? Pfft! If you’re trying to absorb that much information you will have ended up learning, or finding out, nothing at all in the end. Take it one at a time. OK, I’ll let the iPod play while you blog. But that’s it!
5. Big Task, Small Task: Don’t try and do too many big tasks right after you get up. I would much rather do a big task followed by a smaller one. Trying to do too many big ones one after another will end cut down your productivity on the second task you do. Rotate them evenly so when you come on a big one your interest level has gone up a notch. Once you start this rotation you’ll find that you can do your bigger ones quicker in the morning than at any other time of day.

Once you see yourself following some sort of routine, you’ll find out that the sleep you get is truly full of quality. Rinse and repeat. Slowly but surely I hope this guide will help me be an early riser and give me a jumpstart to success by dawn, everyday. Once its in motion everything plays along with it.

There is absolutely every possibility that one day or the other you will most likely slip or not want to do any of these things, even sleep in perhaps. Which is fine, but I would still recommend getting up and watching the sunrise, even if you go back to bed. You just might not miss another one in your life.

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