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Normally I try to wake up kinda early.  Not really early like 5:00am or anything, but around 7:00 or 8:00.  Sometimes 6:00.  Well I used to sleep in until about 1 or 2pm everyday.  I had made a habit of it and I enjoyed doing it, a lot.  Well, I have been on the new schedule now for about a month, until today.  Today I woke up at 11:30am.  This is very late for me to wake up and it even gave me a headache.  So, quickly noticing the bad effects of waking up late, I’m hear to preach to you on why to wake up early.

1. When you wake up early, you get more done.  You might think this is wrong before you’ve tried waking up early.  I mean, to be honest, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.  In fact, it doesn’t make any sense.  But, I’m here to tell you that it’s true.  When I wake up early, I’m more motivated to do the things that I set out to do for the day.
2. The morning is nice.  this also might seem like a stupid thing to say, for you night owls that are reading.  But, the morning is nice.  Nobody is around and it is very peaceful.  Now, I know the night is peaceful in the early early morning, too.  But, when you’re up that late because of staying up and not waking up, things aren’t so peaceful anymore.
3. Morning is the best time to exercise.  It is said that the morning is the best time to exercise.  I’ma leave that at that because I don’t have any reasoning behind it.  I will tell you though, when you wake up at 6:00am and go running outside for a mile during December and it’s raining.. coffee doesn’t have near the waking up effects.
4. You get to get breakfast.  They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  I don’t know all the science behind that, but I do know this:  if you’re fat and trying to lose weight, eating in the morning alerts your metabolism and causes more weight loss than if you had not eaten breakfast.
5. Brag.  How many people do you know that wake up early?  You might know a lot, but I don’t.  Regardless, you can brag about your new found powers to wake when you please.

Remember, 21 days and it’s all yours.

There are a lot of factors that go in to making a person successful.  However, there is one, above all, that can push you to the top.  It’s not your brains or your looks.  It’s not your connections, where you’re from or who you are.  No, the thing that is going to push you to the top is perseverance.

Perseverance is described as continual determination.  It is having patients to achieve your goals and the discipline to do the hard work needed for the goals to be achieved.

My first job was working at a grocery store in my hometown, stocking shelves and carrying groceries out for people.  I hated my job.  But, I knew that if I ever wanted the bosses to realize that I was the most valuable worker that they had, I would have to do this job when nobody else would.  For the most part, all the other employees would hide in the back room when the cashiers would call for somebody to package and carry out the groceries.  But, I went every single time.  I can not tell you how much I hated it.  I would never take breaks in the back.  I never used all the time in my lunch hour.  I never came in late and I never left early.

This was during high school and I would rarely work less than 30 hours a week.

Now, a little background information about why I got the job and about the place I worked at:  I got the job to buy a computer that I had been wanting.  The place I worked had a policy that you’re only allowed to have a raise if you’re full-time.  So, all of us part-time people were stuck with $5.15 an hour.

Now, back to the story.  Eventually, I paid for my computer and decided to quit.  When I talked to the boss about quitting, he offered me a raise and the chance to pick my own hours.  He told me that I was the best employee he had ever had.  Even after I quit, they changed the no raise policy so that part-times could get raises.

Basically, what I’m trying to tell you is that perseverance is a key factor in success.  With it you can do anything.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.  ~Author Unknown

It doesn’t matter how bad you want your blog to become popular. If you don’t have the self-discipline to make yourself work for it, it won’t happen. This is something I think a lot of people have trouble with, myself included. Whether it be waking up on time or managing my time, I fail at both.

The hardest part of self-disciplining yourself is making the first step toward improvement. But, all it takes is 21 days to create a habit. When you think about self-disciplining yourself for life, the idea can be daunting. 21 days is a whole ‘nother ball game, though. Example: Say you want to train yourself to wake up at 5:30am(80% of CEOs do) every morning(weekends included). If you tell yourself, “I will wake up at 5:30am every morning, for the rest of my life.” Your body will hate you for even having this idea. On the other hand, if you tell yourself, “I will wake up at 5:30am for 21 days. After that, I can sleep until the late afternoon again. I will also indulge on chocolates as a reward that I made it.” The second is a better alternative because it doesn’t seem as daunting and you like chocolates.

When it comes down to it, you can incorporate this technique into anything. Blogging included. You remember the last post about Perez and his 25 post a day? If you were trained to do that, you could be making that $100,000+ a month. You could then donate a portion to me for giving you the idea. That’s besides the point.

The point is: you want to be disciplined. I read a good way to help with this is to find a calendar that covers the entire year. Everyday that you accomplish what you are trying to train yourself to do, you put a big red X on the day. The longer the line of X’s get, the more motivation you have not to break the chain. I hear Jerry Seinfeld used this method to make himself write his jokes everyday(and not work on his acting. Seinfeld is still a good show, though).

So, yeah, go do these things.