The Surprising Benefits of Waking Up Just One Hour Earlier
But what if I told you, you can increase productivity, reduce your stress, get healthier with exercise AND look great each day? Would you do this for me?
The research is clear: early risers have the advantage in energy levels, mood, and workout habits, says Women’s Health, and a growing body of evidence confirms this.
The best thing is to take an hour earlier each morning. Of course, you’re not an early riser and maybe you’re not sleeping enough anyway as it is. But if you aren’t natural at early rising, you will come to perceive the benefits are worth the early rising. You can also start going to bed earlier so that getting up earlier isn’t hard.
Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep is offered by the NIH. They make a point in their article that you need to go to sleep at the same time and wake at the same time every day. Therefore, let’s see the positive benefits of doing this simple thing of waking up an hour earlier every day. It will get easier to get up once the body gets use to the rhythm.
1. You’ll be mentally prepared
When you have time to conquer you can slow your brain down and allow it to coast. You will have time to think your day out and to organize your thoughts. With this, you can envision what your day will be and mentally get ready for what type of day you can have ahead of you. You wake up with dominion instead of being frantic and mentally scrambled.
2. You’ll get your exercise in
When you know you haven’t done something yet, there’s nothing worse than the nagging feeling that’s in the back of your mind about it. If you know you’re getting up earlier for a workout, you can lay out your workout clothes the night before, and have a plan for what exercise to do. The more time you have in the morning, the better chance you have to get your clothes and workout done before your day gets away from you.
3. You’ll actually be able to eat breakfast.
You all know the first meal of the day is breakfast, right? And when we’re in a hurry and don’t have a minute to finish breakfast we may eat an unhealthy meal, or not eat breakfast at all and go hungry. This means by getting up earlier you have time to eat a great breakfast and it may be a good thing for the rest of your day, not to mention the ‘oomph’ you’ll be getting from a good breakfast.
4. It’ll save you from all of that fighting the crowds.
As the morning goes on, your traffic to work is getting busier. Drving early in the morning when traffic is less helps to reduce the amount of stress you are going through. If you want to grab a latte or cappuccino — the lines are much shorter on you arrive early. It’s also better the earlier you get there in terms of parking.
5. You’ll look better
That means you’ll have more time in the morning to prepare. It also shows when someone looks really put together. You’ll have the time to find the perfect outfit or to do those extra things: The opposite, it actually pluck your eyebrows, you actually blow out your hair, you actually shine your shoes, you actually floss your teeth. It shows. It puts up a more put together image for you. Physically and mentally, you feel and look better.
6. You can work uninterrupted
It doesn’t matter if you work at home or at an office, working when no one else is around has its perks. No noise, no interruptions, and the chance to be more productive in less time. We all wish we were more productive and that we were making the most of our time.
The hardest part to getting up an hour earlier is those first few moments when you’re almost tempted to go back to bed. Hitting the snooze button and planting it into your mind isn’t going to occur if you set your alarm across the room; stumbling through the first few minutes works until you finally have to face the fact that you actually do feel awake. The difference is that thing, that first few minutes that you are pushing through. When that happens — once you’re awake — the opportunities are there to experience something wonderful. Why not try it? Either way it could have a huge impact on your day and life.