How to wake up early and not be MISERABLE~Tips from a master of waking up early 🌞🌟🌈

Do you ever just wake up and go, "Nope," and roll over and go back to sleep? Then this video is for you! Hi guys, it's me, Judy. Today, as someone who masters waking up early, I want to share with you guys my tips and some scientific background tips to help you wake up early. As always, everything that I'll mention will be time-stamped down in the description below so that you can skip to the part that you're interested in and don't lose time.

So let's get started! I have six tips for you guys. First one is knowing your reason. Second one is changing your mindset. Third one is having a routine. Fourth one is giving yourself a time. Fifth one is sleeping early. And sixth one is getting good quality of sleep.

So let's start with the first one, which is knowing your reason. You have to know your reason why you want to wake up early. If you want to wake up early just because you think that will make you automatically productive, then I think you should reconsider it. Because I don't think that waking up early makes you automatically productive. It can help with that, but it's not going to make you automatically productive. You can be extremely productive by waking up at 2 p.m., or you can do absolutely nothing that day waking up at 5 a.m. You don't necessarily need to wake up early in order to be productive; it just is some sort of a hack that you can use.

My reason behind waking up early is that I really love the quietness of super early mornings, and I think there is something magical about the feeling of waking up super early. Also, I'm a very talkative person, and whenever I see my family members, I go to them and I talk to them, and I get easily distracted from that. Not because of my family members; it's just me kind of like finding an excuse to get up from my desk. So, I take accountability for that, and I wake up early so that I can control whatever I have to do or I want to do. So basically, that's my reason for waking up early. I really want to know what your reasons are, so comment down below.

The second one is changing your mindset. Not to be cliché, but mindset towards your goal is crucial. Better is waking up early, starting to working out, reading books, or being healthy, etc. Are you going to bed thinking, "I have to wake up early. I hate my life," or you know your reason, and you're like, "I want to wake up early because I have some goals that we talked about in the first step," and you're like, "I cannot wake up too early"? I mean, I exaggerated, but knowing your reason really helps with the positive mindset.

Change your mindset from "I have to" to "I want to." You might think, "Our mindset is not going to change anything," but it actually really does! I promise it really helps. So, every single night, you have to remind yourself why you're waking up early and remember that you want that, you have goals that you want to achieve, and you want to get a better version of yourself. That's really important. It sounds kind of cliché and cheesy, but it is really true; it really is.

So, the third one is having a routine. Having a proper and healthy morning routine is extremely important when it comes to waking up early. I have a video about my 4 a.m. morning routine. I don't wake up at 4 a.m. anymore; it's just for a challenge. My morning routine is every single day, kind of the same, so you can watch that video, but I can make a whole dedicated video about building a perfect morning routine because there are a lot of things to talk about, and there are a lot of scientific tips for a healthy morning routine.

The reason why morning routines are so important is that since it becomes some sort of a routine, you don't need much willpower to do things because it's just a habit, and you have to only follow your routine. You don't need to think that much. So, I think having a morning routine is very important, and making it healthy is just a better way, you know?

And the fourth one is giving yourself a time. Don't expect from yourself to be perfect from the beginning; it will take time to get used to it. I mean, I spent years and years getting used to it. It will take time. Don't expect from yourself to be perfect, and don't rush; like chill, you know? It's a whole long journey of us trying to get a better version of ourselves, so no need to rush. Getting better every single day, even like one percent or 0.5 percent, is much better than doing nothing.

Your goal is to be getting better, not to be perfect. Don't forget that! I get a lot of comments saying, "Whenever I watch your videos, I feel like a loser." Everybody has different starting points, and everybody has different journeys. So, your goal is not to be like me; your goal is to be a better version of yourself. You can never be me, and I can never be you because we're totally different people and have different opinions, backgrounds, and habits and all that stuff. This mindset is gonna be a game changer, so trust me; I promise!

So, the fifth tip is sleeping early. Sleeping early is much harder than waking up early in my opinion. I don't know what you guys think. I used to wake up at 5:30 for high school because my school bus was coming at 5:55. I had only 25 minutes, and some days I even woke up at like 5:45 and I had only 10 minutes to get ready, and it was awful. I don't know how I managed that, but it was awful. I hated going to high school, and I wasn't sleeping early even though I knew that I was gonna wake up early. Because when you're in sleep, the time passes really fast, right?

And when I wake up, I have to get ready for school, and I wanted to think like I have a lot of time until school, so I wasn't sleeping, spending that time awake to remind myself that the time is in my control, which sounds really creepy, but I don't know if you guys can understand that feeling. Whenever I have something that I do not want to attend, I don't sleep because I want to think that I have a lot of time until then. I don't know; it's just a really weird feeling. But I was feeling that way, and it took me a lot of time to change it. Now, I use some scientific tactics for changing that.

I read the book "Stanford Best Sleep," which is a book from a Japanese sleep scientist, and the book itself is in Japanese. I don't know if there's an English translation; I can put a link if there is. In that book, he recommends taking a hot shower 90 to 120 minutes before bed, so basically one and a half to two hours before bed. So he says, "Let me read what he says: in the daytime, the core body temperature is about 2 Celsius degrees higher than the skin temperature, and the limbs have capillaries that release heat and lower the body temperature that dissipate heat from the body surface. When this difference between the skin temperature and the core body temperature is reduced in this way, it becomes easier to fall asleep." Lowering this core temperature is the key to getting deep sleep right after you're in bed. So, I would recommend taking a hot shower about one and a half to two hours before bed; it really works! Try that.

So, the sixth one is getting good quality of sleep. I can make a whole dedicated video about this topic, but today we're going to just talk about this a bit. Today, I want to show you items that I use for getting better quality of sleep. I love buying things, and I have a lot of items that I use for my sleep.

So the first one is this alarm. This is a sunrise alarm clock, sometimes called wake-up lamps. It wakes you up with light; it mimics the sunlight. It was around 4,000 Japanese yen, around $37, I guess. I know it's ridiculous to pay that money for an alarm, but if you have ever woken up to a traditional alarm clock, you know that a blaring alarm early in the mornings can be quite jarring. Sunrise alarm clocks simulate natural and gradual sunrise with a range of soft orange and yellow LED lights for a gentler wake-up experience.

Sudden awakenings can lead to sudden changes in cortisol and other neurotransmitters that could cause problems. So waking up with a gradual increase in wake-promoting light makes a lot of sense, says Dr. William Winter of Neurology and Sleep Medicine. So if you have enough money to spend $40 on an alarm clock, I think it's 100% worth it.

The next one is PJs. I used to wear sweatshirts or hoodies, but now I changed to my PJs, and it kind of helps me to remind myself that it is bedtime, so it helps with changing my mindset; I don't know.

So the next one is a pillow. This one is made by a Japanese chiropractor, and it's designed for reducing neck, shoulder, and back pain. It was around 7,000 Japanese yen, so around $65. You don't necessarily have to buy this pillow to get better sleep, but finding a good pillow is extremely important in my opinion. It doesn't necessarily have to be this expensive; I think it's a 100% worth investment.

I think for now, that's it! Thank you for adding Turkish subtitles to my videos. I hope I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye!