what's up you guys it's Adrian and welcome back to my channel in today's
video we're talking all about how to be a morning person how to wake up earlier
I got some tips and tricks and hacks for you guys that definitely work because
let me tell you I was not a morning person I am NOT a morning person like at
all ask my parents and if you saw one of my
last videos I actually did a waking up at 5 a.m. for a week challenge so I'll
link that down below but basically I woke up at 5 a.m. for a week and I
accidentally fell in love with it I basically figured out how I tricked my
brain into liking waking up early when I used to hate it so I'm gonna share those
secrets with you guys today so if you guys have been trying to be a morning
person or just trying to wake up earlier and you have been struggling with it
then just keep watching if you guys are new here hi my name is Adrian I also
have a podcast called the self-made CEO podcast I talk a lot about this kind of
stuff as well so if you're interested in that you can click the link below to
subscribe to the podcast without further ado let's get right on into the tips and
tricks thank you so much to T me for sponsoring this video let's go so tip
number one and definitely the most important tip in my opinion this is what
I can fully credit becoming a morning person to and that is a strategy called
habit batching habit batching basically means taking an activity that you really
don't want to do that you don't like doing you just dread doing it and
pairing it with an activity that you love doing it's that simple so let me
give you some examples when I did my 5 a.m. challenge for a week I found that
the days that I was successful waking up really were the days that I scheduled a
workout class first thing in the morning the days that I wasn't successful
I had nothing on the calendar that I had to wake up for nothing that I had to be
out the door for now you're probably thinking but working out that's not fun
either I'm obsessed with my gym I love my gym so so much that working out for
me has become such a positive experience it's something I look forward to every
day because I love the staff and love the members I love everything so what I
found is that when I had to wake up that early to go to a workout class it
actually got me out of bed because I wanted to go to the workout class and
because also they charge you $10 if you don't show up so I basically chose a
habit that I love doing and I paired it I haven't matched it with a habit that I
didn't like and you know what I found is that I was capable of literally waking
up earlier than I could imagine I was waking up around 4:30 to
leave to be at a workout class by 5:00 a.m. when I told my parents that they
were literally in disbelief because that is just not me another example of habit
batching would be this let's say you really want to start reading more books
but you just really don't like reading but you love making your coffee in the
morning first thing you love how it smells you love the feeling it gives you
you look forward to drinking coffee right so here's what you do you would
put a book next to the coffee maker and every time for like a week or however
long every time you go to make coffee you would grab the book and force
yourself to read a couple pages soon enough what you will find is that even
if it's hard at first you will start enjoying the process of reading and
sometimes you'll even start reading without even drinking the coffee and
it's because you're pairing this good positive thing with this thing that you
don't like as much so you're starting to associate the thing you don't like as
much with the positive thing this might sound too good to be true but there is
like a ton of psychological research behind this this is basically cognitive
behavioral therapy if you think about it it's like you're rewiring your brain
you're tricking yourself into liking something because you're associating it
with something that you like so that is habit batching I highly recommend trying
this it'll get you up earlier in the morning it did for me so my second tip
for making it easier to be a morning person and wake up earlier is to get
better quality sleep that can mean a ton of different things but for me something
that really affects my quality of sleep is if I go to bed unprepared for the
next day then I get anxious in the night sometimes I dream about things I have to
do the next day I feel very scattered and I feel very stressed right when I
wake up which often then leads to just not wanting to get out of bed because I
kind of want to avoid the day so something that I do that has helped for
so long I've been doing it for years is always always planning my day out the
night before now this could just be a rough loose structure of your day but at
least you'll know that all your most pressing tasks are on paper in a corner
maybe on your desk or on your nightstand so that you don't have to think about
them and you can sleep soundly and not be disturbed and not be anxious when you
wake up I've talked about this one a ton and that's because it truly makes such a
difference I find that even sometimes when I get
less sleep it's just way better quality sleep which makes me more energized for
the next day speaking of energy my next tip for actually being a morning person
being more alert and energetic in the morning is to make sure you're getting
the proper nutrients that you need every single day this is so so important and
this actually something that a lot of people
have neglect me included I used to and it really does affect your quality of
sleep your energy during the day and therefore your energy and alertness when
you first wake up and your ability to wake up earlier so every morning I make
either a smoothie or a juice drink with my tea me blends green powder so the
greens powder provides a lot of superfoods veggies things that I
sometimes miss throughout my day cuz I get really busy I don't really have time
to fully meal prep and a lot of times I end up missing my vegetables which is
not great so I really recommend this greens powder it's super easy to just
throw it in a smoothie throw it in some juice you guys this actually taste so
good it tastes really really good and then you're not missing or risking
missing any of those veggies or super greens throughout your day and eating
more vegetables can improve gut health and also just increase energy levels
which again is so important you don't want to wake up and feel all groggy and
tired you want to feel like ready to take on the day and you want to feel
energetic throughout your day I know that waking up early used to be a
turn-off for me because I would just dread getting super tired at like 2:00
or 3:00 p.m. but ever since I started taking the powder in the morning before
my workout I seriously have had so much more energy if you guys want to pick up
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link down below and use my code Finch 30 for 30% off which is awesome so my next
tip is to develop a morning ritual if you haven't already now I talk about
this a lot but I want to really emphasize one thing it's all about the
little things the little changes that you can make every single day that'll
lead to more and more progress than doing the big things and macros will
lead to habits that you can form and keep for the rest of your lives so it's
really all about the little things and having a morning ritual is something
that has been proven to help us create habits and stick to habits so even if
the morning routine is as simple as brushing your teeth reading five pages
of a book that's a morning ritual and if you repeat that every single day you are
becoming accustomed to building habits and just sticking the habits which is
also just really helping your discipline muscle you're starting to really just be
on autopilot and not dread things so much you just kind of go with the flow I
will say like the best part about waking up early is just feeling not stressed
feeling like you don't have to rush through your morning routine and just
feeling very at peace so if you create a morning ritual it just kind of creates a
routine where even when you're so tired at first
you hate it you don't want to do it you just go through the motions just one
little motion at a time and you'll be able to develop this habit of waking up
earlier my next tip for becoming a morning person is also so so so
important and that is setting your intention and figuring out your why why
do you want to wake up earlier why do you want to be a morning person if you
are resisting and you haven't been able to become one but you really really want
to sit down with yourself and really ask yourself why because at the end of the
day we need to be motivated to do that for a reason we're not going to just
want to spring out of bed at 5:00 in the morning unless you really have a clear
defining why for doing it the reason why I wanted to try it was because so many
successful people say that they are early risers they wake up at 4:30 5:00
5:30 6:00 and I want to be successful obviously and then my second biggest
factor for wanting to get up earlier was that I tend to wake up already
overwhelmed and a little bit stressed out for the day and I figured if I was
able to wake up hours before everyone else is even alert and conscious and
doing anything I'd feel way more at peace I'd feel quieter and I would get a
lot of stuff done before people even wake up which for me was kind of just a
mental thing of like I'd wake up and get stressed that I'm missing emails even
though it's kind of in my head but it honestly just sets my day off on the
right foot it sets the tone for the rest of the day to be productive and peaceful
and not stressful and so far so good my next tip is to get more sleep so I do
want to emphasize like the quality of sleep is the most important but you
really should be getting a decent amount of sleep every night to feel energized
in the morning to have a good day they say that eight hours is really what
everyone should be getting I know that some people feel like they don't need
eight some people feel like they need more but the point is that whatever time
you typically go to bed if you think that you're gonna have a hard time
waking up in the morning cuz you go to bed too late a trick that I used to do
is that every single night I would just push my bedtime backwards by 15 minutes
that's it let's say you go to bed at 11:00 so you're gonna do 10:45 tonight
10:30 209 10:15 the next night 10 o'clock next night until you hit the
desired bedtime that you want to get the desired amount of hours that you want
picking up springing out of bed my next tip is a strategy called the five-second
rule now I recorded an entire podcast episode
just diving into the five-second rule if you want to check that out the
five-second rule essentially is this every time you want to build a new habit
so let's say getting up earlier the second that you decide you're gonna do
it so the second to your alarm goes off you just count backwards from five four
three two one and then your feet are on the floor so what this is doing is it's
forcing you to actually take action before your brain is able to process
that you're doing it and throw all these doubts and fears and risks into your
head so apparently it takes just about five seconds for your brain to start
being like no but I don't want to wake up I don't want to get out of bed oh I
have so many things to do today this is gonna suck right if you just count
backwards from five and put your feet on the floor I promise once you're actually
out of bed you'll be like oh this isn't that bad you just have to do one step at
a time don't even think about the rest of the day and my last tip you guys is
another thing that I did that is proven because I did it over here miss at least
morning person ever did this and that is to do your own challenge incorporating
all these things tell yourself that for a week straight you're gonna wake up at
whatever time you choose 7 a.m. 6 an I find these challenges to be fun because
it gives you a real reason to do it like well I'm doing a challenge I have to do
this 7 days in a row and if you fail you can be like wow I gotta start over I did
mine for a video so I really was invested in doing it but make the
challenge for yourself I thought I would never do this again
I literally went into that week being like yeah 5 a.m. yeah right I'm not
gonna do that and I went to a 5 a.m. workout class today voluntarily and my
friends keep saying I thought your experiment was over and I was like yep
it is and I just I still like it so I encourage you and invite you to do
a challenge with yourself do a month-long challenge an 8 day challenge
7 day whatever you want and just challenge yourself to do it I feel like
when you're really flexing that discipline muscle which sometimes means
just doing things when you don't want to do them but actually using strategies
like the five-second rule like habit matching and all that to make it happen
you can make such a profound difference in your life and I look forward to
hearing if it works for you so that is the end of the video thank you so much
for watching I hope you guys enjoyed it subscribe if you haven't already and be
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next video I love you so much bye