Great job Lena! I love my extra time in the morning now, even though I used to get up by 6 am before, now I am consistently up at 4:30 am (I am more a morning person), have time for meditation before work, and am able to get out of work earlier so I have more time in the afternoon to exercise, ect. The extra time on the weekend is great (I used to sleep in sat/sun), I love to get a long meditation or writing period in, maybe go to the grocery store really early (Sunday morning early is SUPER empty).
One thing I do, especially when I first started, was when the alarm went off, I would make myself think about something I got to do in the early morning hours that I really enjoyed. Maybe it was a meditation plan I was looking forward to, or imagining the quiet time for me to do my yoga with no interruptions. I use those as motivators to not hit the snooze when I first started the early waking challenge. I will sometimes plan them the night before, mentally programming myself to think of the positive reason to get up the next day. If I am super sleepy, I stretch before I meditate, helps get the blood flowing
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