How To Be Successful At Mornings

Building the habit of getting up early every day is not an easy thing to do. Especially for those of you who are used to sleeping late, staying up late doing something, or indeed insomnia. So how to be successful at mornings by getting up early? It's not easy to do that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Maybe all this time we still find it difficult to get up early for several reasons, as I said above, we are used to doing things late at night so it is difficult to get up early. Another reason we don't know what the most influential benefits for our lives are when we wake up in the morning.

If you wake up in the morning at 9am, you will feel sleepy again even though you have to work. This is also what I often experience so I procrastinate to get up in the morning, just want to pray at dawn when it's time for sunrise.

This is very human, but it turns out that this habit is not good for health if it is done in the long term.

Did you know that getting up early, at least one-third of the night between 3 and 5 am changes our lives. For Muslims, they certainly know that these times are the fastest times for our prayers to be answered. The moment we wake up for the midnight prayer is an intense time for us to communicate with Allah in the silence of the night.

I want to share the story of the miracle of waking up this morning because I was intending to do riyadhoh. So far I've only been doing the dawn prayer in the morning, but I'm practicing to get up before 4 o'clock to be able to pray tahajjud and pray the sunnah qobliyah at dawn. Apart from having a desire, I also want to be closer to Allah because I feel that life is very difficult to live if you are far from Allah. Want this and that feels hard to make it happen. Maybe life's problems will always be there but when I get closer to Allah then my heart feels calmer in dealing with it.

 

How to be Successful at Mornings (The Benefits of Getting Up Early)

Actually, the benefits of getting up this morning are many. And it is not only in the interest of Muslims to perform the dawn prayer. There have been many studies conducted abroad which also state that getting up early has a tremendous impact on us.

What are the benefits of getting up in the morning?

1. Healthy Body

It is very clear that getting up early is very healthy for our bodies. Especially if we take the time to get up in the morning and go out for a while to breathe the air, the cool air has not been polluted by motor vehicle fumes and other activities that pollute the air. Doctors also recommend getting up early so that the body is healthy and fit.

2. Reduce Stress

Besides being beneficial for the health of our bodies, getting up early also maintains our mental health, you know! Because the mind in the morning is more relaxed and can reduce stress. It's different if we wake up late and rush to go to the office. Everything is in a hurry, maybe even breakfast is often missed. By waking up earlier then we feel more calm.

3. Ready for the Day

The next benefit, of course, is that when you get up early, you have more time to prepare for the day. So what if you have a lot of work to do and you have to sleep late at night? This is simply a matter of time management. Try to rearrange your time to get the job done. You can try to set the priority scale which should be done first. For example, tomorrow morning there will be a presentation with a client, the night before you must prepare the materials, not to mention assignments for other clients that are still pending. Well, you can set it with a priority scale based on workload and time. You can start working on which jobs require extra time and sort out which jobs you will submit first. You can finish the rest after waking up while reviewing what you have to prepare for that day.

Changing the habit is not easy but once you succeed in doing it then you will feel a better difference in your life.

 

The Tips on How To Be Successful at Mornings

After knowing what are the benefits behind the habit of getting up early in the morning, especially before dawn, then how to be successful at mornings by getting up early?

A few days ago I watched a video on youtube channel from DN Resutari about the benefits of getting up early between 3 – 5. Because I was doing riyadhoh so I was looking for tips on how to be consistent in getting up early for the tahajjud prayer.

Here are some tips how to be successful at mornings for getting up early:

1. Wudhu before going to bed

Try to get used to ablution before going to the bedroom. In addition to praying before going to bed, ablution is also quite efficacious to be able to wake up early.

Just before going to bed you can try to communicate with Allah in your own language so that you will be woken up at 3 o'clock to be able to pray tahajjud. I've been doing this method since middle school until now. Even today, if I intend to wake up early and ask Allah, no matter how late I sleep that night, thank God Allah wakes me up on time. In fact, it is often faster than the alarm that is installed. For example, I set my alarm at 3.30, sometimes I wake up at 3 am.

2. Set an alarm

Setting this alarm is another effort to stay awake at the time you want. Because not infrequently I also feel lazy to wake up in the morning even though I have woken up. And when the alarm goes off, that feeling of hitting the snooze button is so tempting not to get out of bed. Then I remember how life can change if no changes are made, how God can grant your wish if you don't ask and take the time to get closer. Yes, this is the time. And I forced myself to stay awake.

3. Drink water before bed

Drinking water before bed is to suggest that in the middle of sleep we feel like urinating and are forced to wake up. It's quite effective.

4. Provide water beside the bed

If you want, you can have water available on the bedside table so that when you wake up or the alarm sounds you can immediately drink the water and the feeling of sleepiness will disappear.

 

Well, those are some ways how to be successful at mornings for getting up early. I myself believe that waking up earlier means success will be closer to us. Because the experience of getting up late is always uncomfortable, rushing to prepare everything and not being prepared optimally at work.

For those of you who are trying to get up early, you can try the advice above from DN Resutari where I have also practiced some of the tips myself. If you want to be successful then change your habits starting in the morning.