Take a minute to imagine how much more productive you would be if you were able to wake up just an hour or two earlier in the morning. They’d be nothing and nobody to distract you from getting on with whatever you want! The only things stopping you are the sleeping habits that you’ve built up over the years. You may have tried in the past to reverse these habits but without the proper techniques that it’s very hard to do. Fortunately I’m going to share with you five tips that will make waking up early every morning a piece of cake!

1. Go to sleep earlier! This is perhaps the most important of these tips. Realistically you can’t expect to go to sleep at 1am and then be able to wake up as fresh as a daisy at 5am. A good rule of thumb is to aim for seven hours sleep. That means that if you want to wake up at 5am you should be going to sleep at 10pm.

2. Build a routine. The human mind responds well to routine and quickly forms routine into habit. In the example above I said that you should be asleep by 10pm, well that means you should also be in bed by 9:30pm at the latest. Even before then though you have an opportunity to prepare your mind and body for sleep. A good routine would be to finish all chores and tasks by 8pm and then to start unwinding by perhaps taking a bath and the reading a book. Try doing this for a few days and you will soon find that you actually start to become sleepy as soon as you pick up your book as your mind knows it is soon time to fall asleep according to the routine you have been following.

3. Set your alarm and place it at the other end of the room! The snooze button will probably be your worst enemy in your efforts to wake up earlier. That is why you should set for alarm for the exact time you want to wake up (don’t try and trick yourself by setting it early and then snoozing for thirty minutes) and put it somewhere where you’ll have to get up to turn it off. You might even want to set up two or three alarms in this manner!

4. Drink a drink. After you’ve been sleeping for seven hours your body will be dehydrated. That is why it’s a good idea to put a glass of water by your bed. As soon as you wake up (or turn off those alarms!) drink the full glass of water. This will hydrate and energize your body, making you feel a lot more awake and less likely to hop back into bed.

5. Program your mind. This may sound a tricky task since you’re not a robot or computer, but you can actually program your mind with a technique known as hypnosis. Hypnosis speaks to the part of your mind which holds yours habits and routines which is why it’s so effective for people looking to quit smoking or lose weight. The same can also be said of waking up early. You can find hypnosis MP3s on the subject of waking up early and they really do work!

Now you know how you can wake up early every morning I expect to see you bright and early tomorrow morning. 5am sharp!

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It’s easy to take sleep for granted, that is until you start to have problems with either the quality or quantity of your sleep. Just as a person can start to gain weight just by adding a single biscuit to their diet on a daily basis, bad sleeping habits can build up over time and lead to a poor sleeping patterns. When your sleep starts to suffer you begin to feel tired, fatigued and irritable. This is not the way anyone wants to feel. Fortunately there are a few ways to sleep better than don’t require a lot of work but provide great results.

Establish a Routine

Establishing a bedtime routine is very important. It lets your mind now that you are gearing up to go to sleep. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to go to bed at the exact same time every night but it should be reasonably consistent. On the other hand though you should aim to wake up at the same time each morning. Even weekends. While this means you might sleep less on the weekends you will drift to sleep more easily and it will be a deeper, more satisfying sleep.

A bedtime routine doesn’t have to be complicated. An example of a good bedtime routine would be to switch off the TV a hour before you plan to go to bed and then preparing a warm, milky drink to consume in the bath while reading a good book. All these activities will help to relax your body and mind before you go to bed.

Your Bed Is For Sleep

Your bed should be used for two things only, making love and sleeping. Many people read, play computer games or watch TV in bed. This is a bad habit to get into though as these activities stimulate the mind. Not only that but the mind begins to associate the bed not with sleep, but with stimulating activities instead. So when you go to bed, instead of believing it’s time to sleep, subconsciously you are expecting to read or whatever else it is you do. When you go to bed it should be to go to sleep.

Hypnotherapy

No, you don’t have to have a hypnotherapist sat by your bed lulling you to sleep! You can actually buy MP3s recorded by many well respected hypnotherapists. You can get MP3s specifically made to help you sleep better. These can be played while you’re in bed because unlike playing a computer game hypnosis is not a mental stimulant. It actually quietens mental chatter and guides you into a deep, restful sleep.