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Reasons and Health Benefits for getting up early in the morning

So my next big challenge in life is to overcome my need to spend all day asleepand day dreaming, as much as i love a good snooze its almost a guilty pleasure that i love and hate at the same time, true its very comfortable laying arround for 2 or 3 hours snoozing and daydreaming, but at the same time i also miss out on those 2 or 3 hours a day activly working on my life. If i just had more time in the week then i would be able to do more with myself, the main part of my snooze thoughts is thinking and brainstorming ideas, but as im half asleep these strokes of insight and genius are soon forgotten, it would be better to just get up and write these ideas on some paper, and do a quick 20 minute’s of brainstorming and mind-mapping.

Ive got lots i want to do and im sleeping through my life, missing the point and the action by laying in the dreams and thoughts of my own mind.

Motivation to get up early, so I’ve made this list of reference of insights and ideas to get up early and some of the positive reasons and health benefits for getting out of bed and being awake in the morning.

Make it in to daily routine, at the start of learning the new routine of getting out of bed like anything this will seem like hard work, but usally after only a few weeks it becomes a talent that can be masterd, think of the edge you will have over most people if you can get up and start your day before, most people have even pressed the snooze button a few times. Being prepared for the day and having time to get ready for the days events. So life would be easier having already make your plans for what is about to happen over the next 12 hours. Making it a routine makes it harder to break , just as its a routine that is used to sleep in and the results that come from that routine are in place, so is getting up early a rotine and that also comes togther with its own set of outcomes.

Hitting the snooze button, i hate my alarm and i also hate the sound of the snooze, its an annoying ringing sound that makes me clench too the depths of my soul, the sound sickens me to the stomach, my mind hates this snooze button and yet i press it over and over. I hate the snooze and alarm. But i press it again and again, i would like to not use this alarm any more and just get up with out having to listen to this annoying beeping. By snoozing your training yourself to become sleepy fast, you wake up press the snooze fall asleep, wake up press snooze fall asleep , over and over, up down up down. When do you really wake up perhaps doing this is not healthy. There is no clear cut line between sleeping and being awake, no wonder i often feel like im walking around in a daydream state.

Pondering, this is the number 1 activity while i snooze and lay in bed , i ponder think plan self talk and daydream, often thinking in circles round and round, until i slip in to another snooze, its a very comforting mindframe, i kind of lull myself to sleep in this rhymical thinking, ponerding and thinking ahh snoozing , and then beep beep the alarm goes of again for the 4th time, then i repeat, should i get up , but ive so much to ponder, blah blah unitl beep beep that bloody snooze button again.  Should just get up pull out my to do list or open up my blog and write down some ideas instead. Get those thoughts out of my head, if there so useful then i should put them to work straight away.

Eat like a king, breakfast sleeping too much reduces the time in the morning before i have to leave the house, i get up and go and daily i miss out on some food or fruit in the morning, i start my day with no time to fuel up. By getting up early one of the activity’s in that new space of time will be eating some food.

When im snoozing i think there is no reason to get up, even when ive achieved all the goals i want , i could always pull out a to do list and fill it with another 50 things i want to do with my life. In this world there is always some thing to do, even if it just means walking to the local store and buying a paper, there is new news to read. Finding a book there is new ideas to consume, exersise there is a few extra reps that can be added. There is lots to do, there is never nothing to do, even if you dont need to work for another 3 hours then just spend some time, working anyways get it out the way, getting up early would give me enough time to watch a whole movie or listen to 2 hours of music.  Spend 2 hours painting or drawing or writing a book, 2 extra hours to walk around and jog and climb practice parkour.

Stretch and breath, and drink and eat , have a cold shower and put on your clothes. Don’t spend time sleeping and snoozing spend time getting fully energised and awake. Loosen up and grab hold of life before anyone else has a chance to. Get the bed made the night time clothing put away and get dressed and ready, iron the clothing . Do chores and washing, electricity is cheaper before 7am in the uk so do the laundry in this time. Get this skill down to an auto pilot response,

Exercise i think it would be awesome to hit the park at 6am or 7am , spend that hour climbing the frame and running and stretching, there would be no one around , i could even spend the hour kicking a  football or shooting baskets at the net, spend 45mins a morning training parkour/ free running. stretching and deep and powerful breathing.  my exercise routine is about functionality, i want to be able to run climb balance , have endurance and speed/power. At the moment after a days work i have no energy or motivation to work on this and my current job role is mainly sitting in an office, so then if i spend the morning doing a walk riding my bike or even powering through some parkour training at the park, then il be able to kick ass in my day time, and may even had a little energy left over at the end of the day.

People my freinds in china are only on the net during the periods when im usually asleep , if i just got up earlier it would give me more time to socialise on my global network, i could spend some time reading facebook or looking through youtube at some new people and ideas.

Just as i wrote that last sentence an prime example happened , its now 10.38 am ive been up since 7am my house-mate has just got up and is just waking up and making some breakfast. What an example ive already had almost 4 hours head-start on this guy. I must gain this skill to wake up earlier.

When i do wake up and get sorted earlier i seem to have more productivity as well, ive found the days when i start early i usally get a blog done or a video on my youtube channel , or even drop a few messages on facebook, my house also gets cleaned quicker and my  day seems more prepared and organised. Ive had some time to warm up my voice for my job on the phone as a consultant., and prepare my mind for some of the questions i am going to face from my customers. I have already gone through 20 – 30 calls in my mind of some of the situations that i will be faced with and the responses im going to be giving to these people, just like a sales man should understand the questions and rejections they are likely to face. Ive had time to prepare and then when these people come up with there questions ive already been awake 4 hours and im more than ready to advise them.

Just want to do more with my time, getting up will give me that time. The extra hours i could do so much more with than pondering, ive spent allot of time working on my internal relm while snoozing its time that i developed more my waking life. Perhaps i would need to do less snoozing if i had less to ponder, and the only way to do that is to work more on the things i do when im awake.

This is not the first time ive come to challenge my morning routine,  but like an old annoying habbit it is one thing that i want to destroy. Being harsh and getting up is going to give me another skill that i have at my disposal if i can stay awake and work on my life for many additional hours year, then all the goals and things i want im giving them more time and chance of being realised.

If your an early riser let me know in the comments below!

How am i going to get up earlier each day, learn to get up at 6am or earlier

Latest goal to work on is how to get up early, there will be plenty of time too sleep when im dead. The goal getting up early and sleeping less , too much time. Just like the cold showers, they will probly feel bad for the first few weeks but then once i get them in to the system , it will start to feel bad by not getting up early. The cold showers hurt at first , but now it seems that as im on a role it would be a shame to quit now.

Getting up early, how early should i get up? . The reason i stay asleep for so long is due to day dreaming, i almost find it hard to face life when im half asleep. By getting up and out , then i hope this will improve my focus. Of all the hours ive spent daydreaming and thinking in my daze, i honestly dont remeber what ive been thinking about or if that this has even been of benifit to myself.

Its going to be a struggle to get up early, perhaps just go straight for 5am so i can train my body clock to get up early if i wake naturaly around the 5am mark or even 6am this would still give me a great advantage.

Getting up earlier would give me more time to prepare myself for the days challenges, at the moment i role out of sleep get up get washed dressed and get in the car to go to work.  If i got up that hour or two earlier, i would have time to work on this site. Maybe an hour of reading an inspirational or instructional  book. Or just an hour walking through the park, which would blow the cobwebs out of my system and get some good air in to myself.

Im up now and it seems like ive got the whole day ahead, this moment in time 9am i would be rolling around sleeping and buried deep in my pillow.

Tomorrow morning im aiming for 6am, for the next 3 weeks 6am, this is going to be the learning and trail phase after that i should be on a roll like the cold showers and that would be the new easy route to take, it would be harder to stay in bed and daydream.

Power Breathing Store PowerBreath UK, Review and personal experience so far.

I recently purchased a PowerBreathe, the reason for this is i wanted to improve my lung capacity and also the efficiency so my breaths, i have found when running hills i am breathing in heavily but i doesn’t feel enough to keep me going, i wanted something so i could train at home my breathing. Since i have had this only a week i have found it to be a positive tool so far. Ive got the powerBreathe Red Fitness Plus edition. I have used it daily quite allot and i enjoy this exercise, On the lower levels its really good for just focusing on deep breathing on the higher level, although i can only do level 2 at the moment it really starts to focus on the explosiveness and force you have to use to get the breath through this device. I find it a good idea to really breath out all the air , then the next breath it is very deep. Have only done a little jogging and not sure if i felt and improvement. But i work in a call center and have allot of talking to do, this has helped me to find my breath easily when explaining long and complex queries. I have also been sleeping well since using this product. Another point to mention, i think this may even tone the core muscles, i have been practicing without a shirt on in front of mirror and it looks like the “six pack” muscles are active during the higher levels of this tool. Update after 1 week of daily use.

Health Benefits of holding your nose while drinking.

I had a whole pack of spirulina  and made juices packed with greens and minerals , the only problem was the difficulty getting them in to my system on a regular basis , the problem the taste, the spirulina drinks and some of my green vegtable juices just were too much for my taste buds, the flavor of spirulina is like mould or as described on the internet pond water. Some green vegtable juices just taste bitter and overpowering. Once they are in my system then they can go to work on doing the wonders to my body and health, but not able to get them in there because im struggling to force it down my neck.

Then i thought of an old trick where if you hold your nose while drinking you can’t taste whats in your mouth, or you can taste it but only just very subtle taste ie a bitter feeling or sour feeling in the mouth. Now using this trick i can easy consume large amounts of green juice and using the holding the nose technique its as though I’m only drinking a glass of water. the taste is the hurdle , use this trick to get past that.  Think that it interferes with the taste receptors, stop the bitter taste of vegetable juices or the odd taste of some other health drinks.

Now ive got no excuse . Kids show showing the same thig enjoy.

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Put on some relaxing music and spend an hour on the floor. Stretching and relaxing. Giving your legs a good Stretching, the videos and image will give you and idea of how to stretch your legs.

Not in English ,but using these techniques to open up the range of motion in the hips, i particularly like the slapping on the legs and feet and massaging the toes. Spent 45 Min’s gong through these exercises , think the thing to do is to relax in to the range of motion and also alternate with active tensing of the muscles in use. Stretching my legs out on the floor but also tensing and flexing the calf and leg muscles. Think this relaxes the muscles and also builds in the use of action in those new positions its about building up the leg strength for flexibility. When stretching to new angles the legs have not been used in those positions before so the muscles are not only stretched and tight , they also haven’t got much understanding or muscle memory with what to do in these new positions practice some kick moves. So while outstretched , wiggle the toes rotate the feet , swing round the legs in circles , give the legs something to do while in the new positions. So not only is the flexibility built in to the muscle use and range of motion is also built in. I also find that having a resistance band helps with holding and strengthen some of the kick stretching positions

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