Effective Time Management: Wake Up Early

Now comes the interesting part of effective time management. If you have not read the previous post, read it before going ahead.

Here you will get the same lesson which your parents would have insisted upon you in your childhood. "Get up early in the morning". You feel it rhetoric. Few of you might ask, how waking up early is way to effective time management! Once, you get up early before sunrise, you will have lot more time to work on that particular day.

It might feel weird at start. Lets see. Most of us wake up late and hurry up things. This will make a hectic day. Often, we miss schedules. Skipping breakfast seems to be order of the day. A good day must begin with a healthy breakfast. So if you skip breakfast you skip the entire day. A healthy breakfast improves concentration. A concentrated work helps achieving targets.

So wake up early. And you will find more time to accomplish your usual morning chores. Now, what about people attending night-shift? Not to worry about. Try to have a good sleep before you attend your night schedules. A good sound eight hour sleep will keep your brain calm. A calm brain improves concentration. Thus improve productivity. Keeping ample time to start for work is the way to go. Don't hurry up your preparation. Especially when you have presentation or meeting, wake up atleast three hours before departing to work.

Drawbacks: Getting up early will make you sleepy all day. But don't relent. You biological system must adapt to the change in the biological change that you force on your body. Hence, it need some time to adapt the change.

To fix the drawback: Try to take a five to ten minutes naps after your lunch. It will set your body alright. You will feel rejuvenated. But don't go asleep. It reverse the good done by early wake-up.

Have faith and determination to fix your time. It will increase your productivity. In next post, you will find out how to evaluate yourselves.