Waking up early has not of late been something I have been punctual at. But that should not be stopping me from pondering about the topic. Be that as it may, there are only two reasons that prompt one to wake up early - Motivation and Fear.
Motivation is something that is innate and drives you to do things - and it can be a definite cause of waking up early. The want to accomplish something for the day can be a strong reason to wake up and start early - and follow a certain order of things. Gradually this becomes a practice. Oxymoronically; there can be a "forced" motivation during early days of our lives - the environment, our family etc can be agents driving us to wake up early...
Fear, on the other hand, induces a compulsion to do something, or imposes a situation that has to be dealt with by an early wakeup. This mode is perhaps more familiar to us from our school days right from when we were kids - Wake up, Wake up; or you shall miss the school bell and lose attendance!! One of my recent ignorance of this factor lead to almost a situation of me getting kicked out of a course for missing a class(well, it wouldn't have been so bad if the class was at 8.30 - this one was at 11.30!)
As we grow - the fear gets replaced by motivation. We grow more responsible of ourselves and our work; and one way of displaying that is to have a schedule that starts early and following it rigorously. Of course, you can relapse into the fear-mode like I have if you grow less responsible - by choice or by habit...
Disclaimers:
1. The post solely considers those normal beings who have a fixed workcycle that runs in the day; unlike some odd IT jobs and research jobs where people work overnight and lead an inverted lifecycle...
2. I don't claim that waking up early works wonders - but it is a certainly good practice.
3. Well, considering that I am writing this post at 3 in the late night/early morning - I am most probably not going to follow what I have just said :D !!
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