Why does the alarm clock rarely work?
The fact that people turn off their alarm clock countless times in their sleep and continue to sleep as if nothing had happened is a strong testament to the raw and uncontrolled power of the human mind. Harnessing this uncontrolled power is the fundamental dream of NLP users. As long as your mind finds pleasure in sleeping late, waking up early will always be the closest but most impossible dream. If simple alarm clocks were powerful enough to overpower the human will, well, the world would definitely be a simpler place to live. I’m sure we’ve all seen an elderly person wake up every day, without any alarm, before dawn. Getting up early has nothing to do with how loud or irritating the alarm is. Even if he succeeds this way, it would have only managed to ruin his mood for the day.
How will NLP wake you up early?
The process begins by acknowledging the power of the human will and using it to create leverage to get up early. Treat your mind as a separate person and reason with it. Although you want to get up early, your mind has attached deep-seated pleasures to not getting up early. Analyze what they are. Make sure the fruits of tomorrow’s labor are more pleasant than a few more hours of sleep. Instead of just thinking “I MUST get up early tomorrow at all costs”, be specific about the results you want to achieve. Convince your mind that you have a lot of important work to do. Check out the full details of all your work tomorrow. Give our minds a rough schedule that shows that unless you get up early, you won’t be able to meet all of them.
Don’t look at your mind as an enemy. If your mind feels pleasure from sleeping late on a deeper level, it is also a consequence of your own actions or decisions in the past. You just taught our mind that getting up late makes you happy. Now just reschedule it. Make your mind understand that getting up early makes you happy and more important. Have a real conversation with your mind. The human mind is most stimulated when inputs come from as many senses as possible, at least virtually. So before you go to sleep, imagine yourself getting up early and
* What will you do with the extra time?
* Who will you meet or talk to?
* What will you say?
* How will you feel after finishing your work early in the morning?
* If you want to get up early to exercise, visualize yourself sweating after a full workout.
* How confident will you be now that you have more control of yourself?
If you are confident enough, you can even start applying this exercise without using alarm clocks. This increases the ego of the mind that you are putting your faith in your own mind than in an alarm clock. All this will change your mental programming and you will notice that you wake up a minute or two before your alarm time even if you use it.