Cease to be aidle; cease to be bunclean; cease to cfind fault one with another; cease to dsleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.
This year, one of my goals is to become an early riser. The scriptures counsel us to do it and all the successful people I've known or read about seem to be early risers. However, I haven't been able to consistently wake up early since my mission.
For those of you like me who find it hard to wake up early, head on over to Steven Palvina's site. He's got a great post on how to become an early riser. The trick it seems is not to go to bed and wake up at the same time everyday, but rather just wake up at the same time. You only should go to bed when you're actually sleepy. Some days you'll be sleepy at 10 PM, others at 12AM, but you still wake up at 5 or 6 AM.
I've been doing it this past week and it seems to be working. It's been really nice. I've been able to get much more done during the day by waking up a few hours earlier. Let's see if I can keep it up.
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I promise as soon as my kids start sleeping through the night to try and get up earlier. Until then, seven o'clock is as early as this body can rise. LOL!
I do applaud your effort, though. I made a resolution to start hitting the treadmill for 30 minutes a day, M-F. I get weekends off for good behavior. So far, so good. That's not exactly in the scriptures, but perhaps it falls under the Word of Wisdom concept of being healthy.
Ooh, I'm going to try that! This is something I've been thinking about lately. Thanks for the post!
I wake up every morning between 5:30 and 6:00. Weekends, holidays and whether I go to bed at 10:00 p.m. or 1:00 a.m. It does work. I've been doing this since I started my job in 1999.
All the successful people you've ever read about are early-riser? This tidbit from the New York Times would beg to disagree:
"Dr. Kripke said that a 2001 study of adults in San Diego showed no correlation between waking time and income. There's even anecdotal evidence of parity on the world stage; President Bush is said to wake each day at 5 a.m., to be at his desk by 7 and to go to sleep at 10 p.m., while no less an achiever than Russian President Vladimir V. Putin reportedly wakes at 11 a.m. and works until 2 a.m."
Maybe you need to adjust your idea of "success." How many people have you managed to secretly radioactively poison? Yeah, I didn't think so. :)
"Maybe you need to adjust your idea of "success." How many people have you managed to secretly radioactively poison? Yeah, I didn't think so. :)"
I can't believe my own wife gave me the smack down on my blog. Ouch.
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