All right, so this is the first day of my little productivity experiment.

The first thing I said I was going to sort out was becoming an early riser. As I said in the other blog post, there are great benefits to be gained from doing this (and if you still need to be convinced take a look at Steve Pavlina’s articles ‘How to Become an Early Riser‘ and ‘How to Become an Early Riser – Part II‘).

Even though I went to bed 4am last night (the post about the productivity experiment took much longer to finish than I anticipated) I set my alarm at 7am and I got up, even though I only had 3 hours of sleep. As you can imagine I’m really, really tired. But this basically means that I’ll fall asleep pretty early tonight which results in that it’ll be easier to get up at 7am tomorrow.

The hardest part of trying to get this sorted out is actually to get out of bed. Something I’ve tried before (and that has been quite successful) is to jump out of bed as soon as you’ve gotten woken up by the alarm and do something that physically engages your body; being it sit ups, push ups or something equivalent. The sudden activity forces your body to set itself in an active state, prepared for a long day of activities.