“The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.”
~Philip Doddridge
Waking early doesn’t just happen. It takes discipline to get up early each and every day. So if you have any desire of being the best there freakin’ is, it’s going to benefit you to get up off your butt and wake when the alarm goes off.
When you wake before the alarm goes off, because you’re so ready to kick butt, then that’s when you know you’ve made it.
You can’t coddle life and sleep it away in your bed. Sleep is important but more so is dominating life.
You’re not going to dominate anything curling up to your little weenie dog and fru-fru pillow.
Knowing that you’re on this site proves you’re no pansy. And if you are a current pansy
but tired of your pansy ways, read on my friend.
I’m here to tell you why it pays to rise early and be up before the sun’s up. By the time you get done reading this you’ll be Jacked and ready to start your daily mission earlier than the early-birds.
You’ve got life to conquer, son. Let me show you how.
Discipline
Rising early isn’t easy. It takes discipline which is why the unsuccessful don’t do it.
Think of the most unsuccessful people you know. Now, ask yourself this question. “Do I believe they are getting up early to tackle their day?”
Hell no, they’re not! This should be the only reason you need to get your butt out of bed. You shouldn’t even want to categorize yourself in any fashion with the unsuccessful people you know.
Look at those people with pity because you can’t help someone who won’t help themselves. You can separate yourself first thing each morning by developing the habit of just getting your butt up out of bed.
People that sleep their day away, heck, even their morning do not interest me. I don’t hang around people who have no drive and you shouldn’t either.
Like Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” So don’t let the unsuccessful lower your average.
Proactiveness
Rising early leads to pro-activeness in your daily approach. You can’t accomplish crap
laying there doing nothing.
If you’re stuck in a rut, you’ve got to get up. Doing nothing leads no where and that’s not where we want to be.
You want to be stronger, get your butt up and lift. You want to be wealthier, get your butt up and work. If you’re attempting to change anything, there is no better time to start each day than at the very beginning of it.
By starting your day off with action, the action of rising early, you are telling the universe that you’ve got a mission to accomplish and it can’t be found in a nice warm bed.
Respect
By waking early and crushing your day, you are giving time it’s due respect. We all have the same hours in a day, it’s how we use them that separate us.
Don’t let your time go to waste. I’m not telling you sleep is a waste of time but sleep shouldn’t be an interference between you and success. If sleep is running interference, it’s time to change your schedule.
Don’t tell me that you can’t or you don’t have the time. If you want something bad enough, you’ll do it.
Accomplishment
You rise early, you give yourself the opportunity to get started on a fast note. Start tackling your task list and crush your goals.
If you wait and start your day just before you start your work day, you are at a disadvantage. Especially if you’re working for someone else.
Anything you have set to accomplish for yourself has to take a side note because your going to spend the first 10 hours of your day working for “the man.”
You want to accomplish something for yourself? Get up early and do it first thing. Feel how empowering this is. I guarantee this will improve your confidence and self-esteem.
Create
Don’t just be a dreamer. There are plenty of those in this world. The guys who say they’re going to do something and then never take the action to do it.
Those same people are the ones telling you it can’t be done. Whatever “It.” is. Don’t be like them.
Do your dreaming in bed at night before you go to sleep. Because when you wake up in the morning, you’re going to take action on those dreams and achieve what they can’t do and what they won’t do.
Do the world a favor and start your day in creativity. You can’t create and dominate by sleeping your morning away. The world is waiting for what you’ve got to offer. Are you determined to give it to them?
Until next time, stay Jacked, stay Strong….
