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Did you know that one of the
questions I am asked most often
is, how do you manage to get
up early, Monty?
As if I were
an expert in
getting-up-early science.
I know nothing about it,
nor do I have a video course on
how to get up early in the morning.
But perhaps people say,
“Ah, Monty gets up at 5.40 am
to make his videos,”
because actually I can only
make videos
between 6.30 and 7.30
in the morning.
I don’t know, I’m a bit
groggy this morning,
but let’s just get on with it.
So people think
you’re an early bird.
To be honest,
by default, by nature,
I’m one of those people
who’d get up at 6 pm,
really, at 6 in the afternoon.
My ideal day? Lying in bed,
comfortably, with lots of books,
DVDs, which no longer exist.
Anyway, watching videos,
with a few sweet snacks,
chilling out all day.
Over the years, however, I’ve forced myself
to be the exact opposite.
So, here are things that
worked for me
when I had to get up early
in the morning. Just to be clear:
you don’t have to
get up early in the morning.
Yes, I know, we all hear that
the most successful
people in the world - every two minutes
you see
a successful person - get up really early
in the morning.
Ok, it’s true, many do,
but not all. I know super-successful
people who
get up at 3 in the afternoon.
Or perhaps you are a
performer, an artist,
a musician, in short,
you live at night
and sleep
during the day. So it very much depends,
everybody’s different.
There are things every person
wants to do.
But ever since
Benjamin Franklin
said “Early to bed and
early to rise,
makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise,”
everyone is a little obsessed
with this idea of getting up early.
Let’s start with some
useful tips:
Ok, I’ll say what works for me,
then you can write comments
and tell me what works for you
when you have to get up early.
Going to bed early, I try to
sleep 7-8 hours.
So I aim for 9.30,
10.30,
to be my bedtime.
That's it.
"Monty, don’t you go to discos?".
No, I don’t go to discos.
"Monty", no, I go to bed early.
Obviously you don’t always
manage to stick to this routine,
but, generally speaking,
if I am at home,
I try to.
Second useful tip:
get up in the morning
and have something
exciting
or interesting to do.
“Exciting” is perhaps
a big word. Interesting
to do.
Here’s an example:
if you get up in the morning
knowing you have to go and
sing songs by
Al Bano and Romina, perhaps
you don’t feel enthusiastic.
But it helps if as soon as
you get up in the morning
you say, “Great, now
I’m off to do this,”
something you like and are interested in.
For example, I like
making videos, I like it.
Getting up early
is no effort. I say, “Great, I’m
making my video,
blah, blah, blah", at that point
everything is easier.
It could even be
a tiny thing,
It could be
you get up,
go to the toilet
and find your favourite little
winter heater, when it’s as
cold as hell,
and you are there, warming yourself up
with your little heater.
It is a pleasant moment
that helps, tic!
to give you a gentle little
shove,
to push you
out of bed.
Anything that helps you
get even a little bit excited
about getting up is fine.
Another tip,
given some time ago, was
to drink plenty of water
before going to bed, so
that you have to go to the toilet,
obviously. The problem
is that often,
if you drink too much water,
you wake up at 4 am,
and then you go back to bed
and don’t get up,
so this must be adjusted carefully,
drink the right amount.
was making it a habit.
So if you manage
was making it a habit.
So if you manage
to keep it up for 15,
20 days, one month,
your brain is automatically
wired and
you always get up at that time,
nothing changes,
not even on Sundays,
your brain wakes up.
You’re used to it. Once you are
used to it,
the rest is easy
and healthy.
Sorry for spitting.
Other things to consider:
having a cat
hich comes in to wake you up,
is also something that works.
Children who wake up, one of
my kids always gets up
at 6 am, no matter what
happens, he’s up
at 6 in the morning. So, he’s
awake anyway so
you wake up too. So there are
some external factors
that may deeply
affect your getting up or not.
How you sleep
also makes a difference.
It is not just
how much you sleep,
you can lie in your bed for 8 hours
and get up knackered.
Because if for example you have kids,
you get up, wake up, what’s this,
elbow jab. All these little details
that affect
how you sleep, when you wake up,
how you wake up, etc.
But, in general,
to bring this to a close,
I think getting up early
is a very positive habit,
because you can do loads of things,
you can even sit there and meditate,
look at the sky,
go out.
You can exercise,
sit there and write,
read, you can do
whatever you like.
It is generally a very,
very good thing.
And early in the morning
nobody calls on the phone,
nobody drives you insane
with e-mails
or stuff that is urgent, urgent,
urgent, urgent.
It is more a moment of
peace for you to enjoy,
which I must say works really
well for me.
And, as somebody I can’t
remember said,
the world belongs to
early risers
until everybody else
gets up.
Then, once they are up,
you’re just an idiot like everyone else and,
well, nothing has
changed.
Ok, I’ve spoken for today,
I’m going back to sleep.