My brother told me he had read that the some of the most successful people (CEOs and the like) get up before 7:00 in the morning. They get more things done this way, and I certainly believe that they would. A few hours to a CEO is a lot, especially when you have a jam packed schedule every day, to the point where you have to have someone else plan it has to mean that you have a lot of stuff to do. When you have a lot of stuff to do, minutes count.
Waking up for me in the past has been immensely difficult o do because I am rather well… lazy. I just don’t like to get up in the morning. I wake up, hit my alarm clock, and go back to sleep. I like waking up whenever I feel like waking up. It’s one of life’s treasures to me. However, this is the most optimal way to be — and so something needs to change.
My goal is to wake up at 7:30 am every day. I’m going to do so by setting my alarm clock on my phone and just “soldiering” it.
That is, getting up without snoozing because a soldier wouldn’t. Or else they’d die. Or something.
I read Steve Pavlina’s How To become an Early Riser, which says to go to sleep when you’re tired, and wake up at a set time every day so your body is “set” to do so.
This is a good challenge for me — a step along the way in my pursuit of perfection.
