Update : How to love the early morning hours

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Some months ago I wrote an arti­cle dis­cus­ing how to become an early riser (link) I thought you may be inter­ested in know­ing how did I go on estab­lish­ing a rou­tine of get­ting up early in the morn­ing and doing med­i­ta­tion and exercise:

• For the last cou­ple of months, I have been able to reg­u­larly wake up at 6 AM with­out the need of an alarm clock (I typ­i­cally set my alarm clock as a safety mea­sure, but always wake up before it goes off)
• I have been doing the ‘Peace­ful War­rior Work­out’ (link) since the start of this year, at least 5 days a week (and there have been many weeks when I did it every day)
• I have been doing rung 15 of the exer­cise lad­der from The Hacker’s Diet at least 3 times every week (link)

The part I have strug­gled the most with has been med­i­tat­ing every day in the morn­ing. Instead, I have started med­i­tat­ing at night before going to bed. I must admit it has a ther­a­peu­tic effect and makes it eas­ier for me to go to sleep, but the prob­lem is that I am doing this in bed, and often end up falling asleep within min­utes of start­ing my meditation.

Do you have any tips on how to improve my prac­tices? I will be very thank­ful if you leave me a com­ment at the end of this post with your ideas.

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