Heaven sends the dawn to everyone.
Author: Insight ADC
If you insist on waking up 21 days early, how will your life change?
Filipe Castro Matos, a professor at the University of Lisbon, once launched a challenge: to get up at 4:30 a.m. for 21 consecutive days.
After starting early on, he found that his life had changed dramatically:
Waking up every morning and thinking that you have a few hours more than others makes you feel confident in life;
When he went out for a run, the first rays of sunlight in the morning and the birds and flowers on the road were all beautiful things he had never felt;
Before each work, deal with trivial work in advance, it is not easy to be disturbed during the day, and the work becomes handy.
Finally, he said with emotion:
"Waking up early may seem like a small thing, but it will have a butterfly effect and gradually change your life."
Cervantes said, "Heaven sent the dawn to all." ”
But only those who get up early can reap more extra luck.
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Getting up early and getting up late are very different lives.
How big is the gap between early risers and late risers?
Netizen @ Santutu shared her story on Zhihu.
For a long time after graduation, her schedule was very chaotic:
At night, I was so anxious that I couldn't sleep, I slept until the afternoon during the day, and after I got up, I was listless, I couldn't lift my spirits in anything, and at night I felt like I wasting half a day's time, so I felt guilty all day long.
Such a vicious circle made her mentally break down at one point.
One night, she suddenly felt that she could not breathe, and her heart began to beat fast and slow, which frightened her into running to the hospital for a medical examination before dawn the next morning.
The doctor said that her current state of malaise is mainly caused by irregular work and rest and too much pressure.
Listening to the doctor's words, she was determined to change.
She began to force herself to get up early, and launched an early punch card plan online, let netizens supervise, and if she did not get up before 8 o'clock, she would send red envelopes to everyone.
For 31 days, she insisted on recording the moment of early rise every day.
To her surprise, a month later, her life changed dramatically:
After starting to get up early, she has more disposable time, reading, writing, and peace of mind, and the anxiety gradually disappears;
Getting up early and running in the morning made him change his decadent temperament in the past, and the whole person became radiant and full of vitality.
In the "Augmentation of the Sage Text", it is said: "Three lights in the morning, three panics in the late." ”
Although getting up late can bring a short sleep pleasure, after waking up, you often feel mentally poor, physically and mentally exhausted, and even because of hurry, affecting the mood of the day.
Waking up early brings spiritual pleasure, and every morning when you open your eyes, you can start waking up all day in the best state.
Ancients Cloud: The plan of a day lies in the morning, and the plan of the year lies in the spring.
How you live the morning, how you live your life.
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The world is secretly rewarding early risers.
Someone on the Internet asked: "Recently, I have been very confused and want to change my state, where should I start?" ”
There is a high praise answer with two words: get up early.
Writer Hal Elrod, who was just engaged to his girlfriend at the age of 29, took out a loan to buy his first house, and the future is bright.
However, not long after the good days, he encountered a financial crisis, the whole country's economy was paralyzed, and his income also fell by more than half.
The huge debt pressure, coupled with heavy living expenses, caused him to have a nervous breakdown and suffered from severe depression.
During that time, he indulged in depression and desperate self-pity, and wasted time every day by sleeping.
Until one day, a friend couldn't look down and pulled him to get up early and run in the morning.
When he walked out of the house, looking at the newborn morning sun and feeling the breeze passing by his ears, his sleeping soul was awakened at once, rekindling his hope for life.
After that, he made a strict morning rise plan for himself, waking up every morning to meditate, self-motivate, run in the morning, read...
After a while, he found that his mental state had improved, regained the hope of life, and began to bury his head in work.
As a result, in less than a year, all debts were paid off.
He later wrote about this experience in the book "The Miracle of Early Rise", in which he wrote:
"If you want to do wonders, start early."
The moment you start getting up early, you hold the initiative in your life tightly in your hands.
Franklin once said, "I've never seen an early riser complain about bad luck." ”
Only those who win the morning can control their own lives.
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What time do you start, what life?
There is a podcast program called "Tim Ferris Show" abroad, and in each episode of the show, Tim interviews a prominent representative of the industry.
At one point, Tim interviewed a boss named York Wielink.
Originally a special forces commander, Willink started a consulting firm after retiring from the military and published bestsellers.
In any field, he is a leader in existence.
Tim invited him to his house and asked him about his success stories.
The next morning at 8 a.m., when Tim woke up, he found That Willink had been sitting there, reading books for hours.
It was later learned that although Willink had retired, he had maintained the habit of getting up at 4:45 in the army.
He said that although he did not have to go to war now, there would always be another enemy waiting to confront him in this world, and he had to prepare for it.
That enemy is no one else, but a lazy, undisciplined self.
Life is a battlefield, and we are fighting ourselves all our lives.
How much time and effort you put in is worthy of how many dazzling records you have.
McKinsey's manager, after surveying the wake-up times of 21 prominent CEOs, found that almost 80 percent of people get up before 6 a.m.
Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler Automobiles, gets up at 3:30 a.m. every day to communicate with other peers;
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who starts emailing at 4:30 a.m. every morning;
Renimon, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, gets up at 5 o'clock every day to run for decades.
This reminds me of a quote from The Habit of Wealth:
"If you want to have a special life, you have to do something extraordinary first."
Fate has always been fair, and when you start, you will be killed.
Success has never been easy in this world.
Behind all the excellence is self-discipline carved in the bones.
A man who can force himself to get up early, the whole world will make way for him.
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William James once said, "Our whole life is nothing but the sum of countless habits." ”
First we create habits, and then habits create us.
Today you wake up 1 hour early, which seems like a humble change.
But in this early waking time, you have overcome the lazy and sluggish self.
In this world, there are not so many talents, but when you are still dreaming, people have begun to climb over the mountains.
Give it a thumbs up and encourage your friends.