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step # 1
Prepare yourself the night before
The first couple of weeks or so during your transition into a morning person will not be easy, so to try and facilitate that transition, make things easier on yourself by getting some of the more mundane -- but necessary -- tasks out of the way the night before.
Make the mornings during those first couple of weeks or so a little less stressful by executing the following things the night before -- perhaps late at night when you're wishing you were asleep but haven't yet been successful about making the adjustments. Choose the clothes you intend to wear to work the following day and have them grouped together in your closet; prepare a lunch that you'll take with you for the next day and keep it refrigerated (if necessary) and; finally, put together a to-do list -- a list that, at the outset at least, doesn't demand so much that it frustrates you, and one that still allows you to be functional and productive before you have to leave for work. The list can become more ambitious down the road as you become more accustomed to the schedule.
Step # 2
Give yourself something to look forward to
No matter how interested -- in theory -- you may be in becoming a morning person, you will still benefit from having something to look forward to when you get up in the morning, especially during the transition weeks when you're tired. So, for the second step in becoming a morning person, don't hold back here; give yourself a reason to get up so early in the morning, one that has sufficient motivation for you to blow off any thought of hitting the snooze button and actually has you getting up and starting your day when the alarm goes off.
What that reward is naturally depends on you and your personality. It could be nothing more than a good cup of gourmet coffee that you bought specifically for this reason. It could be a new album by a favorite band that you've been holding off listening to, again for this very reason. It could be relaxation time with the morning newspaper -- or more relevant, any number of websites you wished you had more time to peruse. It could even be something more strenuous, for example, a half-hour with a personal trainer at the gym, something you may not have had so much time for in the past.
Step # 3
Schedule your sleep time
The unfortunate truth is that you will never be a morning person if you’re not getting enough sleep. Make sure that waking up when you want to in the early morning doesn’t significantly cut into your sleep time for a substantial stretch of days or weeks. Furthermore, see to it that you’re giving yourself enough time in the morning that you won’t be in a crazy, stressful rush. In short, you are going to have to decide ahead of time when you’re going to get up and to do everything in your power to avoid hitting snooze on the alarm clock.
However, keep in mind that when you begin this process, there's a natural tendency to think that you should start trying to get to sleep earlier; however, you will likely find that you will be better off going to sleep when you're tired, whatever time that is, until you can establish a rhythm.
Step # 4
Get outside
Morning people know something about the morning that nocturnal people don't, and that is that there's something special in the morning air, a real renewal, that can't be mistaken for any other time of the day. Thus, the last step in becoming a morning person is to expose yourself, in some way, to that early morning air. Find out what it is about the morning that those folks covet the most. You might consider enjoying your gourmet cup of coffee outside (weather permitting of course), taking a short, brisk walk around the block or at the very minimum, opening the blinds and a window.
If possible, make one of the first things you do in the morning something you can do outside, almost as soon as you wake up. The Idea for this last step in becoming a morning person is to get you outside to experience and enjoy the fresh morning air, the "feel" of the morning and the start of a brand new day.
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