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Recently, someone asked me: “Why do you insist on getting up at 5:30 every day? What is your motivation to get up?
Before answering these two questions, let me tell you a story.
Last year, my mother was ill and needed surgery.
Although it is a small surgery, it costs thousands of bucks.
And the surgery is divided into two types; one is using machine, one is using human resources.
What's the difference? Using human resources is cheaper, but slower and higher risk.
Although the price of using machine is high, it is faster and lower risk.
When my family asked me which one to choose, I hesitated, though it was only a flicker of hesitation.
Why hesitate you asked, because it is expensive.
But it is my mom who was lying on the bed.
In the past, I care very little for money.
In my mind, as long as I have enough to spend, then it’s good enough.
But as my parents growing older, the child growing up, "enough to spend" slowly have no limit.
I realized that the criterion of "enough to spend" is not how much money going into your bank account every month, but is when your family needs the money, you can say without hesitation + confident + honest, I have the money.
Because, at this time, "money" is no longer a simple sheet of paper, but more to assume a responsibility and family trust in you.
Through this incident, I realized I’m really poor...
So, from that day on, I began to like money.
Like those money that earn through my sweat.
Also from that day onwards, I told myself, while young, spend 3-5 years to do my best.
Because a person after achieving financial freedom, they will be able to achieve freedom in life.
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From that day on, I made a vow to get up early every day.
Early? What time does it count early?
Just as I am confused, my friend introduced me a book called "Wake up at 4-the most healthy and efficient time management."
In the book, the author advocates waking up at 4 o'clock every day, but only if you sleep at 8 o'clock in the evening.
I can't go to bed every 8 o'clock in the evening, so I can't get up every 4 o'clock.
After a compromise, I decided to get up at 5:30 every day.
Getting up at 5:30, many people will think that will you get enough sleep?
In our innate consciousness, each person's sleep cannot be less than 8 hours a day.
But according to a survey by a social group, 25% of people sleep for 6-7 hours.
Sleep for 5-6 hours accounted for 13%.
Only 2% sleep for 10 hours.
Sleep for 8 hours accounted for 4%.
Sleep for 4 hours also accounted for 4%.
This survey is not necessarily accurate, but it issued a signal, the previous "8-hour sleep" is an absolute theory, is a kind of people's thought, this sort of thought once fixed, it is difficult to break.
When I tell my friend the idea of waking up 5:30 every day, he opened his eyes wide open and said, "Are you serious?"
After making sure that I'm serious, he said, what are you doing up so early?
Yes, why are you wake up so early?
“Don't know what to do getting up so early,” this might be another reason why many people don't get up early.
However, it’s fine if you don’t know, you can start to learn now.
Look at Apple CEO Tim Cook, every day 4:30 in the morning, he began to organize the delivery of corporate email, 5 o'clock already in the gym exercise.
Padmasree Warrior, NIO’s chief development officer, usually wakes up at 4:30, checks emails and processes messages within an hour and prepares her son for school.
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There are reasons why these people are successful.
Because when most people are dreaming in bed, they are already fighting for their dreams.
Since not everyone needs to sleep for 8 hours; since so many successful people think that getting up early is a significant thing, why not try to do it?
With this, after the new year, my early morning plan formally put into action.
To be honest, the first few days were really difficult.
But after ten days of persistence, I began to like the feeling of getting up early.
Slowly, I can even get up early without the alarm clock; I usually wake up around 5:20 naturally.
At this point, I will continue to lie in bed and think about what to do after getting up.
Everyone should have hobbies, and my hobbies are reading and writing.
But as an office worker, the biggest obstacle to writing is no time.
Daily work is not necessary to say, go home after work, bath and dinner, it’s almost 9 pm. And it is too tiring to writing after 9.
I used to write until late night.
But I slowly found that although writing at night is quiet, but because the work of the day is already very tired, so less concentrate, inefficient and writing quality is not high.
So, getting up early is a major motivation for me to try to read and write.
Through this period, I think it's great to get up early.
Moreover, getting up early is not likely to cause daytime sleepiness, as I had imagined.
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On the contrary, getting up early every day makes me feel energetic and makes me feel fresh every day.
More importantly, get up early, virtually help me spend extra 2 hours a day more than the original.
Don't underestimate these 2 hours.
If a person gets up early 2 hours a day, one month can be 2.5 days more than others; a year can be more than one month of time.
If you can live until 80 years old, even if you get up early at the age of 30, then you can live more than four years in your life.
Wake up 2 hours earlier, I can write quietly, but also can read a book, and even quietly listen to music.
Slowly, I found that in this impetuous society, such quiet time become lesser and fewer.
When I feel these quiet time, I realized that I still can live my life like this!
More importantly, since I got up early, my article quality has a qualitative leap. Because there is time to write, fixed input and output so that I do everything more calmly.
In the past, when I was in a low mood, I could not help but look at those motivation articles to inspire my numb nerves.
Later, my friend heard that I insisted on waking up 5:30 every day, and he joked, "You don't have to read those motivation articles anymore because you've become the motivation that people need."
Some people say that when efforts become a kind of inertia, hard work can really be fascinating and addictive.
I'd like to say that waking up early is an obsession, and getting up early can really be addictive.
Before this, I don’t believe.
Now, I believe.
Many times, there are countless dreams in our heart, vowed to become the next someone. But if you want to be someone else, you can't always lie in bed.
Take action is the only way to get to the far reaches.
The world is cruel, and the cruelest thing is not that you do not work hard, and clearly, you have to do your best, but those successful people are still running, and run faster than you.
So, if you think you're not good enough, what reason do you have to stop running and what reason you have not to try?
Run, work hard, start early every morning.
If you can't even get up early, how can you talk about success?
If you can't even control your morning, how can you control your life?
