Right now, I get up at about 7 am and sleep at midnight (12-1 am). In the month of January, I will sleep early and get up early. My final aim is to get up at 5 am in the morning, after 6-7 hours sleep. So I need to sleep before 11 pm.
New habit: Become an early riser
To form this habit of rising at 5am, I would like to break the habits into the following easy steps:
- Week 1: Get up at 6:30 am, sleep early at 11:30 pm,
- Week 2: Get up at 6:00 am, sleep early at 11:00 pm,
- Week 3: Get up at 5:30 am,
- Week 4: Get up at 5:00 am,
- Week 5-6: Finally reinforce the new habit of becoming an early riser.
After the habit-forming steps, I hope I can get up at 5 am in the morning after enough sleep.
As soon as I get up, I should start the morning routine:
- Drink a warm cup of water or tea
- Stretch or exercise, or meditate.
- Check the Inbox, and set the three most important tasks (MIT) for the day
- Start to work on the first MIT (mostly writing) right away
Review
- Week 1: Mostly get up at 7 am
- Week 2: Mostly get up at 6 am
- Week 3: Mostly get up at 5:30 am and start to work at 5:30 am.