How to stop hating Morning Alarms

December 9, 2008

I used to hate waking up early in the morning and I used to boast around that I up late in the nights so I cannot wake up in the morning. Honestly that was just sheer laziness and nothing else. I am sure many of you reading this also will go through the same.

I know you would have seen many such posts that talks about rising up early in the morning. But honestly I have tested many and they do not seem to work. But then I put something simple in my mind and then it started working. I’ll definitely share the same formula with you too.

But before that please answer this question? Why do you want to get up early in the morning?

Not getting up early is it a disorder? No way. In fact like how you want to know how to wake up early there are many of them who suffer from not being able to sleep early. Insomnia as it is called. This is not a post where I talk some medical stuff to you on what to eat, what not to do and things like that. Honestly let me tell you, it’s not so damn difficult to wake up early in the morning. Yeah its true. But before you move on I definitely want you to answer WHY?

1. Health

2. More money

3. Spend time reading

4. Improve your skills

5. Time with family

6. Want a 6 pack abs

7. Be more productive do more

8. Pursue a hobby

Is it one or more of these reasons? Now is it so very important for you to wake up then, why don’t you do it? What’s stopping you?

Honestly, if there is one formula for waking up early, its drive, it’s the FIRE. So wondering how to bring about the fire?

The fire is not something that can be developed. It has about having the deep desire to achieve anything. If you said the reason for you to wake up in the morning is one of the above (or even something else that’s important), then you need to have that deep desire to achieve it.

Why people do not wake up on time, is that they do not find a purpose. If I tell you that you need to run out of the room where you are sitting right now, you might not do. If I tell you there is some tasty ice cream waiting for you, then you might think (I know few people will run for this J). If I were to tell you that there is Fire in the room, then you run out instantly. This is Purpose! And Purpose is what creates a fire inside of you. So you must have a deep sense of purpose for you to do something. If you notice that beyond an age there are lots of people who start exercising which they restrained from doing otherwise, its is because that they would have had a disaster in life, meaning the doctor would have advised that if they were not doing that, they would fall in the trap of ill health. So the purpose is even more higher!

So you need to find the true purpose for you to wake up in the early in the morning! Isn’t exercising every day a good enough purpose? I know you have this question right! Yes its not good enough, because if its good enough then you would not want to read this on how to wake up early in the morning.

Our mind works only on emotion and no on Logic! If we are emotionally charged and motivated, then we can do anything. This is a pattern as we call it in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). When we put an alarm to wake up in the morning, there is a NLP Pattern that is fired that runs pictures in our mind, which in turn lead to an emotion and hence action. Emotions lead to actions! Useful emotions, useful actions!

So waking up in the morning is all about the emotions. What emotions are useful for you to wake up in the morning. Energy, motivation, is probably some of the emotions that are needed. For this however there are many ways of achieving the same especially using NLP.

1. Creating the Pattern in your Mind - For you to wake up in the morning you need something called a Trigger. The trigger could be an alarm, a wake up call, someone calling you or you just realizing and waking up all of a sudden (I know this is not right). This trigger has to be associated with a sense of motivation. So what you must do is to create a picture of how you will wake up in the morning. Intensify the same picture of you waking up in the morning with full energy. Once you do this, you must associate the picture with the trigger. So you must practice this for a couple of times. When you are wide awake, do this exercise. Allow the alarm to ring and when the alarm is ringing, create the picture of you waking up which you already know and intensify the same. Do this a dozen or more time so that the association between the alarm and you waking up becomes higher.

2. Force Yourself – This is just to create a pattern in yourself again. If you do something for atleast 2 weeks continuously then the chances of you continuing is much more higher.

3. Commit to Others – ask your loved ones to do the needful. Ask them to wake you every day in the morning and go for a walk along with them. And slowly you will start getting used to the pattern of having to wake up early. This is a driving force for you again to do it. With this you are just creating a new purpose for waking up in the morning.

4. Tapping your Subconscious - You must have to change the identity of what you are now. For you right now, the identity is that you are a late riser. This in one way will not make you accept to be an early riser. It’s the same for people who sleep late too. For them if they sleep early, they cannot accept themselves. This will make them to sit up late and they never feel sleepy or tired end of the day! For a late riser too it’s the same, because repeatedly over the period of time you have been labeled as a late riser, you attach the same identity for yourself which will go against you when you want to wake up early. So feed your subconscious mind with the new belief that you are an early riser. Every day as you go to bed, give this amazing thought to your conscious and subconscious mind that you are an “EARLY RISER” and you will wake up early in the morning!

Practice this and attain absolute mastery to wake up early in the morning. One piece of warning is that all this will work, only when you really want to. If you are a person who is already happy with what you are doing and you do not really want to wake up, then just forget it and be happy about what you are doing and if you badly want to wake up, then this is the best for you. Be an early riser and feel energized every day!

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8 Responses to “How to stop hating Morning Alarms”

Ian Peatey on December 11th, 2008 8:17 am

Hi Praveen.

Interesting article that got me thinking (always a sign of a good post .. for me anyway!).

I only wake up forcibly when I have an appointment to meet. Most of the time I allow my body to find its natural rhythm of sleep (usually 8 hours during the winter … changing to 5 hours in the summer). This works for me … but after reading your article I’m now wondering if I could achieve more in life if I took more conscious control of my sleep patterns. No conclusion yet, but thanks for the idea!

Ian
Prabhu on December 22nd, 2008 9:46 am

I am a BTW 11 student .

This message of Early riser Trigger is Very good and Excellent .

It would help be to achieve all challenges in my life .

I live with passion and mastery .

Regards
PRABHU.S
Click A Life Coach on December 23rd, 2008 5:08 am

Great articles, the same suggestions are valid for any kind of goal setting. Personally I believe you need to have the big enough WHY. If you can identify with the why everything else false into place.

I love sleeping in myself and I have noticed if there is a good reason to get up early like going on a holiday, doing an early yoga class, it is really easy and I feel great. Just without this it is a challenge and it is much easier to turn around and sleep another hour.
Chris Edgar on January 9th, 2009 11:27 pm

Thanks for this post. I like the focus on going deeper into our motivations instead of focusing on tips and tricks for rising earlier, since the emotions that drive us have to be there to spur us to action. — Best, Chris
Dhayanethi on February 9th, 2009 6:01 am

Iam a BTW student.

It seems to be good article. I really love the way which you have explained how to come out of it.

Will TRY(sorry DO IT) immediately from tomorrow and will let you know the result by next week.

Expecting lots and lots of useful articles from you like this.

Dhayanethi.C
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Muhsin on March 8th, 2009 8:54 pm

First of thank you very much for the article,

Realy ,i am facing the same challenge in life to get up early t,o take charge ,definitely ,i will do the same which you wrote in the article from today.

once again thank you

Muhsin
Dhina on May 14th, 2009 9:43 am

Mr.Dhayanethi is not a student. He is lieing.

He has two kids and Two wives.
Bhagwant on April 9th, 2010 8:46 am

HI Praveen, I too am interested in NLP but I think before resorting to NLP for any type of problem. Initial emphasis should be on lifestyle tweaking for e.g for EARLY RISING see what I did practically that helped me at
http://sidhulive.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-be-early-riser.html