How to Wake Up Early

Tip #35: Track Your Early Wake-Up Progress

There’s a simple productivity trick that Jerry Seinfeld reportedly used to become one of the most consistent comedians of his generation. A young comic named Brad Isaac asked Seinfeld for advice at a club one night, and the answer had nothing to do with jokes.

Tip #34: Wake Up Early by Creating the Right Associations

Any trick to make you wake up earlier will fail if you don’t commit to it mentally. And your commitment to wake up early fully depends on what you associate early rising with.

Tip #31: Strike with Overwhelming Force

Here comes the king of all tips. If you still fail to wake up early but have not lost hope, try this one. When everything else fails, it is time to get to serious military tactics.

Tip #30: Advertise Your Early Wake Up Habit

This tip works the same way as giving a promise works — but takes it a step further. Once you succeed at waking up early, tell people about it.

Tip #29: Put Yourself Under Time Pressure

“Zeitnot” is a German term commonly used in chess to describe severe time pressure or “time trouble”, where a player has only a few seconds or minutes remaining to complete their required moves. In zeitnot, your body and your mind draw on immense internal energy to get through it.

Tip #28: Get a Mentor

This is another “universal” tip that can help you in many situations when you need to learn a new skill or get a new habit, and it may come in handy if you want to learn how to wake up early.

Tip #26: Ask Someone Who Wakes Up Early To Wake You Up

If you are lucky to have friends or relatives who wake up earlier – ask them to wake you up.

Tip #8: Have Important Things Planned for the Morning

If you want to wake up earlier, make sure you have something important planned for the morning—something that you really want to do first thing when you get up, and something more important than taking an extra hour of sleep. You need to make getting out of bed feel more appealing.

Tip #7: Create a Reward System for Yourself

An excellent waking-up technique that works very well not only for waking up, but also whenever you want to do something you don’t like or keep procrastinating on, is promising yourself a reward. This tip can often be seen in various self-improvement materials, and it really does wonders.