Many successful people are used to getting up early. For example, Apple Corp CEO Tim Cook begins to process mail at 4:30 every morning, and Starbucks founder Howard Schulz gets up at 5:30 every day to read newspapers and drink coffee. Early rising can not only help you gain more time, but also help you improve the efficiency in thinking and working in the morning. But for the average people, getting up early is a tough challenge. There are five ways to help you get up early in an article published in the monthly magazine Manager:
First, try to figure out why you want to get up early. Do you want to exercise to make your body healthier, or do you want to have the time when you couldn’t be disturbed in the morning and do what you want to do, such as reading, writing, or meditating?. "When you exactly know why you want to get up early, it will be your motivation, and it will encourage you to get up and achieve your goals," says Chris Winfield, a well-known time management consultant in America.
Second, develop good habits before going to bed and prepare for sleep. When it comes to getting up early, many people will say they have no willpower, but people who rise early do not rise early by willpower, but develop early-to-rise habits. Gretchen Rubin, a happy life practitioners, said: "Habits keep us from problems of making decisions, and make changes easier to be implemented." In fact, we needn’t get up early deliberately,instead, the stable bedtime can gradually stabilize the time to get up.
Third, take 15 minutes as the basis, gradually go to bed and get up early. For example, you are used to sleeping at twelve in the evening and getting up at seven. You can try to go to bed early at eleven forty-five and get up at six forty-five.
Fourth, don't rely on the alarm's "later warning" button. People may think it's a happy thing to sleep a few minutes after the alarm goes off, but in fact, doing so will only make us more tired because it disrupts the sleep cycle and affects sleep quality. More importantly, lingering in bed delays the start of the day. When it becomes a reflex action, our subconscious will lack of self-discipline. It's recommended to put the alarm clock or cell phone away from the bed and have to get up before turning it off.
Fifth, choose your favourite morning activities in the morning,as it will help you to insist on getting up early easily.The article suggests that the first arrangement you should make after getting up is choose a thing you like doing, and what you choose will make you full of motivation when you think of it. Only in this way will you look forward to the beginning of the day.
5个帮助你早起的方法
许多成功人士都习惯早起，比如苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克每天早晨4点半就开始处理邮件，星巴克创始人霍华德·舒尔茨每天5点半就会起床看报纸喝咖啡。早起不仅能争取到更多的时间，清晨时人们的思考和工作效率也会比较高。但对普通人来说，早起是一场艰难的挑战。《经理人》月刊的一篇文章整理出5个帮助你早起的方法：
第一，要想清楚自己究竟为什么要早起。是想起来运动，让身体更健康，还是想在早上空出一段不被打扰的时间，做自己想做的事，比如阅读、写作或冥想。美国知名时间管理顾问克里斯·温菲尔德说，当你确切了解自己想要早起的原因后，它将成为你的动力，会在内心深处鼓励你起床达成目标。
第二，养成睡前好习惯，为入睡做好准备。说到早起，很多人会说自己没有意志力，但早起的人们并非靠着意志力早起，而是培养早起的习惯。幸福生活实践家格雷琴·鲁宾说：“习惯让我们免于做决策的困扰，使得改变更容易被实现。”其实不用刻意早起，稳定就寝时间，自然能逐渐稳定起床时间。
第三，以15分钟为基准，逐渐提早就寝和起床时间。比如，你习惯晚上十二点睡、七点起床，可以试着提早到十一点四十五睡、六点四十五起床。
第四，不要依赖闹钟的“稍后提醒”按钮。人们可能会觉得，在闹钟响起后再多睡几分钟是件幸福的事，但事实上，这么做只会让我们更累，因为它破坏了睡眠循环、影响了睡眠品质。更重要的是，赖床延迟了一天的开始，成为反射动作后，会使我们的潜意识缺乏自律性。文章建议，把闹钟或手机放在离床边远一点的地方，非得起床后才能把它关掉。
第五，选择你喜欢的晨间活动，这样会比较容易坚持早起。文章建议，早起后选择一件你喜欢做、能让你一想到就充满动力的事，成为每天的第一个安排，这样能让你对每天的开始都充满期待。
