Why get up early

Its 4:55AM and in the darkness of your room, you see the billowing curtains on your half open window. “C’mon you can sleep for 5 more minutes, its too cold and too dark to get out of bed”, the voice in your head screams. “Hit the snooze button”, the voice whispers in your ear.
But you didn't ask for its opinion. The voice that you chose to hear is that of your dreams… of resistance. So you get the fuck the up.

1. You drag your sleepy ass out of the bed and do 10 push ups. For the first 5, you feel groggy, cold and tired. its like someone slapped you awake in the middle of a dream. But then gradually the blood starts flowing to your arms and legs. You feel warm. You begin to breathe normally. Good Morning!
2. You walk towards the kitchen. Mix 2 scoops of whey protein with some water in a shaker and have it on the empty stomach. It satiates you after an overnight fast. Your aching muscles need food…they have earned it!

Hereafter your morning can go in one of the two ways.

1. You are hung up on a single thought. You are thinking about the emails you are supposed to respond to, the meetings your are supposed to attend and how unprepared your are for them. Or may be you are fixating on something from the past…an offhanded comment, a hot girl you met on the subway last evening or maybe your ex-girlfriend who dumped you for another guy. They are having the best time of their lives vacationing in the South Pacific.
   You take a blank sheet and start scribbling—Fuck you. Fuck her. Fuck the world. Thoughts flow out on that piece of paper. Your insecurities…your fears…your lust; and then they STOP. You read back what you have written. DISGUSTING. Are you really this weak…this vulnerable? You burn the paper and flush it down the toilet.
   But then you begin to notice something, you are no longer hung up on that thought anymore. Your body feels lighter and you can breathe normally.
2. You are calm and composed. You pull out your 5 Minute Journal and begin writing. The journal helps you catalog your thoughts and makes you more reflective, grateful and mindful of your activities.

Now, you sit on a chair or on the floor, plug headphones into your iPhone and hit the headspace icon. Time to quieten the rebellious voices…the voices that scream…the voices that whisper when you wake up. For the next 20 minutes you train your brain to listen to you.

You get up from the floor and put the kettle on the burner. Soon the water will reach 195F(~90C). You will pour the water on to the tea in your french press. And now you will WAIT. You will wait for the elixir of gods to brew while the dawn filters through your kitchen window. Breathe!

Abraham Lincoln once said,“ If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe”.

Remember that your mornings are when you sharpen your axe, polish your armour and buckle up for the battle Royale.

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为什么早起

        现在是凌晨4：55，在昏暗的房间里，你看着窗帘在半开的窗户上一起一伏。“拜托！现在天还是黑的，又这么冷，你可以再睡5分钟” ，你脑海里的声音尖叫道。“按下再睡5分钟”，那个声音又在耳边轻轻的说。

        但这不是你要听到从的声音，你想要听从的是你的梦想。快他妈起来！

        1.你强撑着从被窝爬起来，做了10个俯卧撑。前5个的时候，你昏昏沉沉，又冷又困，就像在睡梦中被人打脸打醒。接下来，你感到血液充实了四肢，你渐渐的暖和了，早上好！

        2.你走进厨房，将2勺蛋白粉放进搅拌机兑水搅匀，喝进空空如也的胃里，经过一夜的节食，这令你感到满足。你疼痛的肌肉需要食物。。。它们得到了！

        接下来你的早晨可以有以下两种走向。

        1.你因一种想法心神不宁。你想着要回复的邮件，要参加的会议。。你还没想好如何应付它们。或者你沉浸在过去之中。。一段未经证实的流言，昨天晚上在地铁上遇到的辣妹或是为了别人甩了你的前女友，他们现在正在南太平洋渡假。

        你拿出一张空白的单子开始草草地写——**你，**她，**这个世界。写下你的不安。。恐惧。。欲望；接着你的思绪停止了。你读了读刚刚写下的内容，真恶心。你真的这么无能，这么脆弱？你烧掉了那张纸，把它冲进马桶。

        然后你意识到有事情发生了，你不再沉湎其中了。你的身体感到一阵轻松，你可以正常地呼吸了。

        2.你感到内心平静。你拿出速记本开始记日记，日记帮助你整理你的想法，让你更明智、更感恩，更周全地行动。

        现在，你坐在椅子或地板上，带上耳机，打开headspace(一个冥想类app)，是时候让那些声音安静下来，醒来时那些尖叫的声音，那些微弱的耳语。接下来的20分钟你训练你的大脑服从于你。

        你从地板上起来，烧了一壶开水，将开水倒进你的法式咖啡机中，等待这种上帝的恩赐。这时黎明透过窗户洒入了厨房，深呼吸!

        亚伯拉罕·林肯曾说过：“如果我有8小时用来砍倒一棵树，我将用其中的6个小时用来磨斧子”。

        牢记早晨就是你用来磨光斧子，擦亮盔甲，为一天的奋斗做好准备的时候。

 

注：这次比较轻松，不是编程的97件事系列文章，是在Quora上读到的一篇关于为什么要早起的优秀文章，原文地址为：https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-early-morning-habit-for-success/answer/Parishrut-Badoni?srid=zetl&share=8d56afc3