Make Me A Morning Person: The Morning Phenomenon - It Doesn't Take The World To Get Up Early

By Bobby Marsh

Waking up early is a real struggle for many people. People are battling this friendly monster silently. Friendly because the temptation to snooze the alarm or turn it off completely when it rings in the morning is irresistible. Almost everyone can attest to cursing under their breath when they hear their ala

• Language: English
• Publisher: Readers First Publishing LTD
• Release date: Jan 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781804280737

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MAKE ME A MORNING PERSON

THE MORNING PHENOMENON

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It Doesn’t Take The World To Get Up Early

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BOBBY MARSH

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  How To Become A Morning Person

Chapter 2: 9 Habits To Wake Up Early

Chapter 3: Happy People Plan Their Week in Advance for Maximum Productivity

Chapter 4: How Not To Waste Your 25,000 Mornings As An Adult.

Chapter 5: Happy People Have A Morning Ritual

Chapter 6: Overcoming Tiredness and Lethargy

Chapter 7: The Keys To Happiness

Chapter 8:  5 Ways To Focus on Creating Positive Actions

Chapter 9:  6 Ways To Adopt A Better Lifestyle For Long-Term Success

Chapter 10:  Happy People Stay Present

Chapter 11: To Make Big Gains, Avoid Tiny Losses

Chapter 12: Get Your Brain To Focus On What Matters

Chapter 13: Happy People Do What Matters to Them

Chapter 14: The Easiest Way to Live a Short, Unimportant Life

Chapter 15: The 5 Second Rule

Chapter 16: The Daily Routine Experts for Peak Productivity

Chapter 17: 6 Tricks To Become More Aware Of Your Strengths

Chapter 18:  5 Tips for A More Creative Brain

Chapter 19:  5 Ways Quitting Something Can Bring You Joy

Chapter 20:  Five Habits That Make You Age Faster

Chapter 21: Why You’ve Come Too Far To Quit

Chapter 22: How To Succeed In Life

Chapter 23: HOW TO STOP JUDGING YOUR OWN WORK

Chapter 24: How To Focus on Creating Positive Actions

Chapter 25:  10 Habits of Amancio Ortega Gaona

Chapter 26: 10 Habits Of Happy People

Chapter 27: 9 Habits of Highly Successful People

Chapter 28:  20 Positive Affirmations For Men

Chapter 29:  6 Habits of Oprah Winfrey

Chapter 30:  How to Reprogram Your Mind for Success

Chapter 31:  6 Ways To Adopt New Actions That Will Be Beneficial To Your Life

Chapter 32:  8 Ways To Adopt New Thoughts That Will Be Beneficial To Your Life

Chapter 33: Why Are You Working So Hard

Chapter 1:

How To Become A Morning Person

Our natural sleep/wake cycles are known as our circadian rhythm, and they can vary a lot from person to person. People fall into different groups, or chronotypes, depending on whether they feel most awake and alert in the morning, in the evening or somewhere in between.

No chronotype is inherently better or worse than another. There’s nothing wrong with staying up late and sleeping in. If that schedule fits with your lifestyle and your obligations, it’s not necessary to change it.

The trouble comes when your late bedtime clashes with your early morning obligations. If you’re regularly getting less than the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep a night, your health and well-being can suffer.

Unfortunately, we can’t pick our chronotypes. Genetics plays a part in whether you identify as a night owl or a morning lark. Still, your habits and behaviours can reinforce those natural tendencies. And those habits aren’t set in stone. By making behavioural changes, you may be able to shift your sleep schedule preferences,

How to reset your circadian rhythm? How, exactly, do you become more of a morning person?

Shift your bedtime: Count back from the time your alarm rings, aiming for a total of seven to nine hours a night. That will be your target bedtime — eventually. If you’re used to turning in well after midnight, willing yourself to suddenly fall asleep at 10:00 p.m. is sure to backfire.

Aim to go to bed 15 or 20 minutes earlier than usual for a few days. Then push it back another 15 minutes for several more days. It’s important to adjust your sleep time gradually, she says.

Make it routine: A quiet bedtime routine is key to helping you fall asleep earlier. At least an hour before lights out, dim the lights and power down your electronics. Find something soothing to do, like taking a warm bath, reading a book or listening to a (not-too-stimulating) podcast. Give yourself time to wind down and prepare your mind for bed.

Lighten up: Our circadian rhythms are responsive to light and dark, Exposure to bright light first thing in the morning helps you feel more alert and also helps shift your internal rhythm toward an earlier wake time.

Natural light is the best, so get outside or open your bedroom window. If you can’t get outside or your room is natural light-deprived, try a light therapy lamp that mimics the spectrum of natural light.  

Make mornings more pleasant: Try to schedule something to look forward to in the morning so that getting up feels like less of a slog. Perhaps a hot cup of coffee, sipped in silence, and the daily crossword puzzle. Knowing that something pleasant awaits can help you take that first, painful step out of bed.

Move your alarm clock: Hitting snooze is all too tempting, so remove that option. Try putting your alarm clock across the room, so you have to get up to turn it off.

Some apps make it even harder to sleep in, by forcing you to engage in mentally stimulating activities like solving a puzzle to stop the beeping. Do whatever works to keep you from hitting snooze,

Chapter 2:

9 Habits To Wake Up Early

Waking up early is a real struggle for many people. People are battling this friendly monster silently. Friendly because the temptation to snooze the alarm or turn it off completely when it rings in the morning is irresistible. Almost everyone can attest to cursing under their breath when they hear their alarm go off loudly in the morning.

Here are 9 habits that you should strive to incorporate into your life if you wish to make waking early a part of your routine:

Sleeping early.

It is simple – early to bed, early to rise. Retiring to bed early will give you enough time to exhaust your sleep. The average person ought to have at least 8 hours of sleep. Sleeping early will create more time for rest and enable you to wake up on time.

Since sleep is not ignorable, you may be embarrassed when you find yourself sleeping when attending a meeting, or when you are at work. Save yourself this shame by sleeping early to wake up earlier.

After a long day of vicissitudes, gift your body the pleasure of having a good night’s rest. Create extra time for this by lying horizontally early enough.

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Scheduling your plans for the day beforehand.

A good plan is a job half done. Before the day ends, plan for the activities of the next day. When it is all mapped out, you will sleep with a clear mind on what you will be facing the next day. Planning is not a managerial routine task alone but everyone’s duty of preparing to fight the unknown the following day.

Waking up early is a difficult decision to make impromptu because of the weakness in yielding to the temptation of ‘sleeping for only five more minutes.’ Having a plan gives you a reason to wake up early.

Creating deadlines.

Working under pressure is an alternative motivation for waking up early if planning has failed. With assignments to submit within a short time, or work reports to be submitted on short notice, the need to wake up early to