The Best of What's Around: Becoming an Early Bird Edition

Every week, I share some of what I read that inspires me, even if I’m terrible at taking the advice.

One of the things I’m constantly trying to improve at is waking up early. I understand the benefits, I get how useful it could be to my productivity. At night. Then, in the morning, sleep wins. It’s a vicious cycle, really, constantly conspiring against me.

Here are some of the great articles that are helping me to become a morning person (or at least to wake up grumpy, but earlier):

How To Wake Up Early (this one’s a whole site full of great tips and products for making helping you become an early riser, and make the most out of the morning)

Dave Cheong – “Waking Up Early – 15 Tips That Work”

Zen Habits – “10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It”

Steve Pavlina – “How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off”

Lifehacker – “Wake Up Early With Ease” (Read the comments here, they’re great)

LifeSpy – “Student Guide: How to Wake Up Early”

Gearfire – “Why You Should Wake Up Early and 5 Tips to Do So”

The Change Blog – “Mind Over Mattress: How to Wake Up Early When All You Want to Do is Sleep”

WikiHow – “How To Be a Morning Person”

Tons of great advice – all I have to do is figure out how to take it, without being so darn tired all the time.

On a totally unrelated note, here’s a video about Web 2.0 I’ve been looking for an excuse to post here. This is as good a time as any, right? It’s old, but still rings incredibly true, and is a great way to think about the Web.

What’ve you read, watched, or seen this week that you liked?

Photo: Jeff the Trojan

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