Benefits Of Waking Early

People generally believe that the only benefit of waking up early is that you add hours to your day and get your tasks done fast. But what if I tell you, there is more to it? Rising early has so many benefits that it can be considered as an overlooked method to strengthen your body, sharpen your mind, ease your soul and fuel your energy. And the best thing about it is, anyone can do it, including you. Let’s look at how this habit can change your life and how to practice it as soon as tomorrow.

The first thing you need to do after waking up is to move. You can move in any way you like, skipping, push-ups, jogging, stretching, and any activity that makes you move, breathe deeply and sweat. Doing the most difficult but important activity at the beginning of the day sets the tone for the rest of your day. It helps to increase your confidence, become more active, and boost your focus and energy, while strengthening your body. While doing these activities, it is important to hydrate yourself and drink water, as it helps boost your metabolism.

The next step is to calm your body and mind while easing your soul. You can do this by meditating and journaling. Meditating helps to reduce your stress, overthinking and anxiety. While meditating, it is important to clear your mind of all thoughts and just focus on the present moment. Focus on your breathing and avoid any thoughts from entering your mind. This helps you to become more optimistic, creative and less reactive. Journaling, on the other hand, is important to reflect on yourself. You can start by just writing about what you did throughout the day.

This helps to record your learnings, small accomplishments, and the effect of your current habits, and in the long run, this can help to track your improvements as well. The third activity is to sharpen your mind. After meditating, you clear your mind of all distractions and increase your focus. This is the best time to learn new things and educate yourself. You can do this by reading books, listening to audiobooks and setting up your goals for the day. Now days many people view reading books as boring and a waste of time, especially due to the increase in consumption of online content.

But reading is the best thing you can do for yourself. Imagine this, till today, many people have faced many difficulties. It can be related to finance, business, self-help, social life, technology, and many more. There is a strong possibility that whatever problem you are facing right now, someone has already faced those problems before you, found the solution, and written a book on it. The best part is that you can learn about new things in a few weeks or months, which took a person their whole life to experience and learn. Reading five books in a year can be understood as learning from the lifetime experience of five people.

The best part is that you can do all of these within an hour. That hour you added to your life by just waking up early. Since you should be doing these activities daily, you don’t need to overdo it every day; you only need to be consistent. Exercise for only 30 minutes, meditate and journal only for 5 minutes, and read only two pages a day. Combining these activities and doing them on a regular basis can have so much impact that it can change your life. You start performing better at school, college and at work. You start building healthy relationships with others. You start to respect yourself. There are so many benefits that you must experience them to know it all.

Now for the most important question. How to wake up early? The answer is quite simple. Sleep early and set the alarm. Before sleeping, avoid any screen time, especially scrolling through your phone while lying in your bed. Consuming content before sleeping can exhaust your eyes and your mind. This makes you lazier and hence waking up early becomes an impossible task. This will not be easy at first, but if you are serious about improving, you must do it no matter how hard it gets.

In conclusion, waking up early can provide you more time to strengthen your body, sharpen your mind, ease your soul and fuel your energy through exercising, meditating, journaling and reading books. With this, you are not just adding hours to your day but utilising them to the fullest. After completing this, you can continue with your daily activities with more efficiency. You don’t need to wait and get ready for anything, all you need to do is sleep early today, avoid screen time before bed, set up your alarm, wake up early and continue with above mentioned activities.