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Use this one-stop-shop to get all the hacks, tools, and bag of tricks to SNAP yourself out of your late night habit and get your self raising up early, bright eyed and bushy tailed.

The article below includes tips from some of the following articles, blogs, websites, and white papers from the web and some from personal experience, such as:

Top Early Riser & Sleep Sites On The Web

10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It
Sleep Adjustment - Gain 10 days per year
Waking Up Early - 15 Tips That Work
How to Nap at Work - or Anyplace You Need a Rest
Late risers unite in Denmark
The Science of Sleep
Micronap your way to success
Brain Machine legally induces mind trip
Am I Getting Good Sleep?
Do I have a Sleep Disorder?
Why is Sleep Important?
How Sleep Works?
Tips for Sleeping in the Heat

11 Negative Effects Of Sleeping In:

1. Loose valuable morning hours better spent on your hobby, work, passion
2. Its lunch time before you get your day started
3. No one can do anything while you’re sleeping in
4. Life will pass you by
5. It frustrates the hell out of your partner
6. You’re always late for work
7. You’re less productive at work
8. Less efficient and professionalism suffers
9. Leads to having to stay at work later then everyone else
10. Tiredness from over sleeping
11. Getting into a negative sleep cycle that’s nearly impossible to break

15 Positive Effects Of Rising Early

1. You get to go to the gym or go for a run
2. You feel alive
3. Wake up with to the sound of birds
4. Get to work early
5. Optimum use of hours at work
6. Maintain a routine and pattern
7. Beat traffic and peak hour
8. Get to work before everyone else
9. It’s the most peaceful time of the day
10. Use the time for meditation
11. Time to really enjoy your breakfast
12. See the sunrise
13. Goal setting time
14. General feeling of well being
15. Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise - Ben Franklin

11 Hacks To Do Before Going To Bed

1. Have a warm shower or bath
2. No TV, computer, or loud music 30 minutes before sleeping
3. Have warm drinks, tea, hot chocolate, warm milk and honey
4. Don’t drink coffee after 6pm
5. Read before you sleep
6. Don’t have caffeine, alcohol or nicotine hours before your sleep time
7. Let go of worries and anxieties - write them done before going to bed and tackle them in the morning (when you wake and get up early).
8. Do some deep breathing exercises
9. Avoid bright lights
10. If you can’t sleep after 15-20 minutes then do something else - read a book  (don’t jump on the net!)
11. Thinking about repetitive or mindless things helps the brain slow to shut down but the best method is to relax your body, concentrate with your feet, then legs body, arms and head. Relax all the muscles of each body part and then repeat.

8 Hacks For The Morning

1. Set alarm 30 minutes earlier then you want to wake up
2. Place alarm away from bed
3. Do not overheat bed i.e. excess blankets
4. Get partner to ensure you wake up/get up/ out of bed
5. Set alarm at exact time every morning even if you don’t get out of bed as it will train your body.
6. Don’t rationalize to yourself when the alarm goes off, just jump up out of bed and try and get into the shower asap.
7. If it’s dark when you want to wake use a flashlight and shine it in your eyes, your body send wake-up hormones when there’s light so shining a touch into your eyes will help trick your body into sending our hormones.
8. Start doing slight stretches when you wake this will get your blood moving and help you wake up

10 Ways To Approach & Create This New Habit

1. Take it slowly, start slowly - wake 15 minutes earlier then your used to and then slowly increase this time over a couple of weeks
2. Steve Pavlina says that your sleep requirements vary from day to day, sometime you will have a more exhausting day and require more sleep so go to bed ONLY when you feel tired but always wake up at the same time.
3. Everyone is different so work out how much sleep you need, it’s important you don’t over sleep as you will enter another sleep cycle (these happen every 90 minutes) and your natural body clock will be out for the following day.
4. Take little wake up challenges and conquer them - then move onto bigger ones.
5. Sleeping longer doesn’t mean sleeping better
6. 6-8 hours is generally enough sleep time, if you still feel tired then chances are you are not sleeping well, you might even be depressed.
7. Remove options to sleep in completely i.e. schedule meetings, deadlines, make appointments you can’t reschedule. This tricks will get you over a cycle you’re in but follow the hacks above for long term positive sleeping habits.
8. Have a buddy/partner to encourage and follow up on your progress.
9. Review all the things you’ve done/progress you’ve made and reward yourself.
10. Make your bedroom sleep friendly, well ventilated, good temperature (not too cold that you have to put too many rugs on this will cause you to snug under the covers in the morning and ignore your alarm clock.
11. Wake up with sunlight helps your biological clock reset itself.

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