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The Power of
Mornings: Why Successful Entrepreneurs Get up Early
Lisa Evans
When running a business, it may seem like there are
never enough hours in the day.
Tapping into the power of mornings, a time of day when
there are less demands,
might be the key to increasing your productivity.
For 15 years, Starbucks President Michelle Gaas has set
her alarm for 4:30 a.m. to go running. Gretchen Ruben, popular author
of The Happiness Project (Harper Perennial, 2011)
wakes up at 6 a.m. and works for an hour before her
family rises.
Time-management expert Laura Vanderkam highlights what
makes mornings special
and how we can use them more efficiently in her
book What The Most Successful People
Do Before Breakfast (Portfolio
Trade, 2013).
Here are a few
benefits to getting out of bed earlier.
You are less likely to get distracted in the
morning. An entrepreneur's day fills up fast.
If you wait until the afternoon or evening to do
something meaningful for yourself
such as exercising or reading, you’re likely to push it
off the to-do list altogether.
“There are going to be reasons why you can't tackle a
personal priority at 4 p.m. –
things have a lot less likelihood of coming up at 6
a.m.," says Vanderkam.
You have more
willpower early in the day.
Even if you aren't a morning person, you may have more
willpower in the early hours than later
in the day. "Willpower is like a muscle [that] becomes
fatigued with over-use," says Vanderkam. During the course of the day as
you're dealing with difficult people,
making decisions and battling traffic,
you use up your willpower,
leaving you feeling depleted toward the end of the
day.
Mornings give you the opportunity to set a positive tone
for the day. If you've ever slept in
past your alarm clock or forgotten your kids' lunches on
the counter, you know that starting off
the day with a failure can bring down your mood and
affect your productivity at work
anderkam says waking up earlier allows you to start the
day with a victory
and set the tone for a happier and more productive day.
If the thought of waking up at sunrise makes you cringe,
Vanderkam recommends these four steps to transform even a habitual night owl
into a morning person.
1. Keep a time
journal.
Vanderkam says one of the reasons people say they don't
like mornings
is that they stay up too late. She recommends keeping a time
journal for a week
to show where you may be using your time inefficiently.
Vanderkam finds
when many self-professed night owls look at their time
journals, they often find
they aren't spending their evening hours
productively or doing anything particularly enjoyable.
2. Imagine your
perfect morning.
Imagine what you would do if you had an extra hour in the
day. Would you exercise?
Read the newspaper rather than simply skimming the
headlines? "
[Getting up earlier] isn't about punishing yourself.
You
will not get out of bed if you don’t have a good reason to do it," says Vanderkam.
3. Plan your
morning.
Once you have decided what you want to do with your extra
time, plan how to execute it,
and set as much up as possible the night before. For
example, if you want to exercise in the morning, lay out your clothes the night
before, or gather the ingredients for your breakfast.
4. Build the habit
slowly.
Vanderkam says you will likely hit the snooze button and
sleep in if you try to switch your habits drastically. So instead of setting
your alarm for 5 a.m. when you normally get up at 7:30 a.m.
set the alarm for 10 minutes earlier each day.
To make sure you don't lose sleep, go to bed 10 minutes
earlier each night.
If you have trouble hitting the sack on time, set a
bedtime alarm.
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