Become An Early Riser Part 2
In Become An Early Riser (full title “Think and Get Motivated, How to Become an Early riser” and sub title: Your Falcon Productivity Launch Pad: Become An Early Riser!), I explained why you should be an early riser, I talked a bit about luck and I spoke about the simple way to become an early riser. Set alarm for 4am, Drink coffee preprepared by bedside, stretch, and turn alarm off)
This post is the enhanced edition.
Today after trying the first strategy I blogged about (link above) for about a week with only moderate success so far, I feel my energy levels are at least 50 times higher than they would normally at this point in the day. I don’t know precisely what is behind that but I have a few ideas. One is the wording I’ve used and self persuasion has got me thinking about times when I’m ultra productive. Getting the psychology right is incredibly important. Another is the caffeine. Another may be cinnamon and vanilla extract that I added in my coffee. I also used the “bullet proof coffee” method of adding oil (fat) to the coffee. Thee also may be the accumulative effects of repeating this process for about a week or the combination of variables working together “synergistically”.
But at any rate, the prior method can multiply energy levels exponentially if mixed with a few additional techniques. This takes those methods and multiplies that already insane energy boost... probably by 100. I am not against exaggerating to get my point across but I don’t even think that is an exaggeration. We are talking about the neurochemical that has allowed mothers to lift up trucks or ice houses to save their sons. You are talking about unleashing an extra couple thousand pounds of strength previously unavailable, without actually using any different muscles. Just through sheer tyranny of will. The amount of untapped potential triggered by this neurostimulant is utterly insane and the amount of energy that it jacks you up to is seemingly unhuman. Until you’ve experienced the levels of adrenaline that allowed ancient men to defend itself from a saber tooth tiger, you simply don’t really respect the massive surge of energy we are talking about.
Certain activities are linked to massive amounts of lasting energy. Adrenaline response for instance. Vigorous exercise that really elevates heart rate to high speeds very quickly. (High intensity training).
Your goal is to create a trigger associated with this adrenaline response. The more you connect this trigger with the activity and the adrenaline, the more of a link there will be between the neuostimulant within your mind and it will get activated everytime you hear that trigger.
So here’s one approach.
1)Choose an alarm sound that is unique to you (And Ideally different from the old one) and that you won’t hear except when you need it.
2)Choose an activity that creates a surge of energy and repeatedly do it Immediately after and during that sound. For instance, you might find a local beach Or pool with a high dive and set up an alarm for enough time for you to climb it and when you hear the sound you go full energy! Or you might set it up so you go to an amusement park (If open and wear a mask) and just before the roller coaster drops of the launch of the ride you set your phone up to play that sound.
3)After repeating step 1 and 2, use this as your alarm.
A basic suggestion accessible to everyone is probably just running in place at very high speed, doing 5 pushups and stretching arms out in the victory position. This body language is linked to confidence and energy. An insane overkill response to this would be to go skydiving or bungee jumping a few times and going on the sound of your new morning alarm.
Warning:This technique is high level brain manipulation at its finest that literally will rewire your brain to surge with energy upon the triggering of the neurochemical “anchor”. You will literally achieve a sort of chemical cocktail “high” off your own energy and adrenaline. I don’t want to be responsible for someone becoming an adrenaline junkie so use this technique with caution. It’s truly THAT powerful.
Currently If you are not an early riser your alarm clock is anchored To the feeling of going back to bed or feeling however you normally feel in the morning. By first re-engineering that sound to be linked to drinking coffee and now anchoring it to some super intensity adrenaline, we are anchoring the alarm to some serious wake up juice. You might wake up the first time you try it and go “what the F$&* is this insane amount of energy I have?! And where has it been all my life?”
And you may want to come up with a plan ahead of time of what you are going to do to release this energy. I suggest a morning routine that involves exercise. In fact, having excess adrenaline in your system is not healthy, while exercise can release certain neurochemicals that actually absorb some of the harmful aspects of adrenaline being in their too long. When people drive to work in the morning feeling stressed out at traffic there isn’t much of a “fight or flight” response involving vigorous exercise to absorb the adrenaline, just the presence of “catacholamines” like adrenaline without a healthy way to relieve the tension.
We want to engineer our minds to rocket launch up in the morning and still have positive energy throughout the day but without the excess adrenaline floating around in the body.
We also need to come up with a plan on gearing up the sleep quality and adjusting the other end of the equation—when do we fall asleep. That will be covered in the third post of this series that may introduce another series on Productive sleep.
I promise you this technique is more powerful than anything out there short of doing something insane like having an IV of saline solution with adrenaline and cocaine on a timed release, but just in case you are looking for something not quite so powerful and perhaps hacking your mental chemistry seems like overkill and perhaps you also don’t like the idea of coffee and caffeine, then Steve Pavlina has some excellent articles on becoming an early riser that I read 13 years ago. It’s still relevant today, but it’s a much more natural approach then the aggressive neurochemical programming that I’ve suggested
1) Get up when your alarm goes off.
2)How to become an early riser.
3)How to wake up feeling totally alert
4)Become An Early Riser Part 2
5)Polyphasic Sleep
I am actually serious when I say the same level of reverence that you would apply to drug use should be applied to whether or not you decide whether or not this enhanced version is for you. With almost any drug it is not the drug that triggers the effect, it’s your bodies reaction to it. Your body simply won’t release the chemicals unless it feels it has to. You are actually releasing adrenaline into the blood stream which is not very healthy for you. Fortunately there is the natural adrenaline absorbtion that will mitigate this to some degree if you don’t become an adrenaline junkie and become addicted to excessive adrenaline.
I may be Overstating it in this case to get my point across, with actual drugs there are actually consequences of both the drug and the neurochemical associated with it so drugs are certainly worse than a so called “natural high” but it would not be fair to simply dismiss this as being a more “natural” response since it doesn’t involve drugs.. in some small way it actually does.. your brains natural neurostimulant that is every bit as powerful as actually injecting adrenaline right into your heart and perhaps every bit as dangerous.
So why am I even telling you this? I respect your ability to make decisions and calculate risk so I will treat you like an adult and assume you can assess the consequences appropriately and decide what is right for you. I respect you enough to say I don’t have the type of credentials to advise on this so this is information only, but to know that the risk for all things in life is ultimately your own. Having said that you can use caffeine as many do but in a more strategic and powerful way as suggested in my first “become an early riser” post, or you can take the more natural Steve Pavlina approach to working on it over time and trying to train your brain to respond to an alarm through practice... or you can use the enhanced version to get jacked up on insane levels of energy and figure out a way to manage that and mitigate the risks associated with it through early morning and regular exercise.
Steve Pavlina back then had a mentality of patience and perseverance. My strategy is one of basically creating neurological triggers to unleash somewhere between an intense to dangerously insane amount of productivity fuel. Channeling it into useful things will be up to you.
I don’t specifically recommend (or recommend against) Polyphasic Sleep, but it’s a topic where if you are seeking to spike your energy and productivity you can’t ignore at least reading about it. The supposed aim is to retrain your circadian rhythm and brain to hit The most useful kind of sleep—REM sleep—right away. Deep sleep is actually associated with rest and repair so if you are physically active and work out polyphasic sleep is probably a terrible idea. And I’m not giving an opinion on whether or not it is a good idea in some circumstances as I don’t actually know and I don’t know that anyone can. The actual risks and potential consequences of it have to be respected and given full credence to (along with the fact that many of them may be totally unknown) before you even consider it.
My suspicion is that anyone who successfully responds to an alarm at least has some level of adrenaline and catacholamines associated with waking up. Without that I don’t think polyphasic sleep will even work if you try. But I think the danger might be similar to the same danger that excessive stress over time has on the body. It’s actually ultimately deadly, or at least statistically increased chances compared to avoiding it. And yet, many people take on deadly levels of stress to get the things they want such as deal with some of the consequences of relationships and marriage and kids and financial stress associated with work and work and traffic and so on. Intense exercise, weight lifting, sexual activity and other physical exersion can mitigate some of the risks, but not all of them. There is a positive form of stress (the desire and slight pressure to do well) that causes enough challenge to rise to the occasion such as competing an a race that causes one to improve ones self, but that is not what we are talking about. At any rate, independent from the stress related and adrenaline related risks polyphasic sleep has some complete unknown risks the occurs from avoiding the deep sleep phase altogether. There simply aren’t enough long term studies that discuss avoiding just the deep sleep but getting rem sleep to even get a picture as to what the consequences are. There is simply The unknown variable about what certain stages of sleep even do that make it hard to tell what the long term cognitive results are going to tend to be.
There are many other things I could cover. And perhaps I will in the future. the foods you consume happen to have a big impact on energy and there is a lot I know and a lot more to explore. For some reason whenever I have cinnamon and vanilla extract I have extra energy that lasts. I tried adding to my coffee today and look, I started a blog and created 3 posts ready to publish. I also in high school used to put in my French toast (Along with eggs milk and butter and syrup) I used to make once a week and have some leftovers for breakfast for a couple days a week and I remember people saying “How do you have so much energy?!” The sugar alone in the meal doesn’t explain it as normally a carb breakfast or having sugars results in a crash, but I didn’t feel that when I have the only other variable being vanilla extract and cinnamon. I haven’t tried to isolate the two and to be honest the eggs back then and caffeine now may also play a role. But not surprisingly my energy levels changed a lot over time when I stopped making French toast which resulted in an unproductive lull in my life even when I tried reading about productivity. Theory and application are also different things.
There is also Specific chains of amino acids that synthesize into the types of neurochemicals you will be accessing by way of mental “anchoring“. In other words a kind Pavlovian style conditioning of linking a specific neurochemical to a trigger (the sound of the alarm clock to adrenaline). This trigger actually requires your body to have synthesized enough of it. With almost all neurotransmitters, your body cannot produce enough naturally, you need some amount of specific types of amino acid protein chains that the body can synthesize into what it needs. In other words, energy levels is a function of what you eat. If you want to engineer your energy levels, you may want to also consciouslh choose diet, exercise, amount of sun levels, vitamins, minerals, amino acid chains, micronutrients, etc with all of that in mind. We will get into something of these other things in other posts.
For now though, let’s keep it simple. You control your energy by creating triggers and exercising in the morning. You become an early riser and you use that time early in the morning to focus on your top priorities.
This post is the enhanced edition.
Today after trying the first strategy I blogged about (link above) for about a week with only moderate success so far, I feel my energy levels are at least 50 times higher than they would normally at this point in the day. I don’t know precisely what is behind that but I have a few ideas. One is the wording I’ve used and self persuasion has got me thinking about times when I’m ultra productive. Getting the psychology right is incredibly important. Another is the caffeine. Another may be cinnamon and vanilla extract that I added in my coffee. I also used the “bullet proof coffee” method of adding oil (fat) to the coffee. Thee also may be the accumulative effects of repeating this process for about a week or the combination of variables working together “synergistically”.
But at any rate, the prior method can multiply energy levels exponentially if mixed with a few additional techniques. This takes those methods and multiplies that already insane energy boost... probably by 100. I am not against exaggerating to get my point across but I don’t even think that is an exaggeration. We are talking about the neurochemical that has allowed mothers to lift up trucks or ice houses to save their sons. You are talking about unleashing an extra couple thousand pounds of strength previously unavailable, without actually using any different muscles. Just through sheer tyranny of will. The amount of untapped potential triggered by this neurostimulant is utterly insane and the amount of energy that it jacks you up to is seemingly unhuman. Until you’ve experienced the levels of adrenaline that allowed ancient men to defend itself from a saber tooth tiger, you simply don’t really respect the massive surge of energy we are talking about.
Certain activities are linked to massive amounts of lasting energy. Adrenaline response for instance. Vigorous exercise that really elevates heart rate to high speeds very quickly. (High intensity training).
Your goal is to create a trigger associated with this adrenaline response. The more you connect this trigger with the activity and the adrenaline, the more of a link there will be between the neuostimulant within your mind and it will get activated everytime you hear that trigger.
So here’s one approach.
1)Choose an alarm sound that is unique to you (And Ideally different from the old one) and that you won’t hear except when you need it.
2)Choose an activity that creates a surge of energy and repeatedly do it Immediately after and during that sound. For instance, you might find a local beach Or pool with a high dive and set up an alarm for enough time for you to climb it and when you hear the sound you go full energy! Or you might set it up so you go to an amusement park (If open and wear a mask) and just before the roller coaster drops of the launch of the ride you set your phone up to play that sound.
3)After repeating step 1 and 2, use this as your alarm.
A basic suggestion accessible to everyone is probably just running in place at very high speed, doing 5 pushups and stretching arms out in the victory position. This body language is linked to confidence and energy. An insane overkill response to this would be to go skydiving or bungee jumping a few times and going on the sound of your new morning alarm.
Warning:This technique is high level brain manipulation at its finest that literally will rewire your brain to surge with energy upon the triggering of the neurochemical “anchor”. You will literally achieve a sort of chemical cocktail “high” off your own energy and adrenaline. I don’t want to be responsible for someone becoming an adrenaline junkie so use this technique with caution. It’s truly THAT powerful.
Currently If you are not an early riser your alarm clock is anchored To the feeling of going back to bed or feeling however you normally feel in the morning. By first re-engineering that sound to be linked to drinking coffee and now anchoring it to some super intensity adrenaline, we are anchoring the alarm to some serious wake up juice. You might wake up the first time you try it and go “what the F$&* is this insane amount of energy I have?! And where has it been all my life?”
And you may want to come up with a plan ahead of time of what you are going to do to release this energy. I suggest a morning routine that involves exercise. In fact, having excess adrenaline in your system is not healthy, while exercise can release certain neurochemicals that actually absorb some of the harmful aspects of adrenaline being in their too long. When people drive to work in the morning feeling stressed out at traffic there isn’t much of a “fight or flight” response involving vigorous exercise to absorb the adrenaline, just the presence of “catacholamines” like adrenaline without a healthy way to relieve the tension.
We want to engineer our minds to rocket launch up in the morning and still have positive energy throughout the day but without the excess adrenaline floating around in the body.
We also need to come up with a plan on gearing up the sleep quality and adjusting the other end of the equation—when do we fall asleep. That will be covered in the third post of this series that may introduce another series on Productive sleep.
I promise you this technique is more powerful than anything out there short of doing something insane like having an IV of saline solution with adrenaline and cocaine on a timed release, but just in case you are looking for something not quite so powerful and perhaps hacking your mental chemistry seems like overkill and perhaps you also don’t like the idea of coffee and caffeine, then Steve Pavlina has some excellent articles on becoming an early riser that I read 13 years ago. It’s still relevant today, but it’s a much more natural approach then the aggressive neurochemical programming that I’ve suggested
1) Get up when your alarm goes off.
2)How to become an early riser.
3)How to wake up feeling totally alert
4)Become An Early Riser Part 2
5)Polyphasic Sleep
I am actually serious when I say the same level of reverence that you would apply to drug use should be applied to whether or not you decide whether or not this enhanced version is for you. With almost any drug it is not the drug that triggers the effect, it’s your bodies reaction to it. Your body simply won’t release the chemicals unless it feels it has to. You are actually releasing adrenaline into the blood stream which is not very healthy for you. Fortunately there is the natural adrenaline absorbtion that will mitigate this to some degree if you don’t become an adrenaline junkie and become addicted to excessive adrenaline.
I may be Overstating it in this case to get my point across, with actual drugs there are actually consequences of both the drug and the neurochemical associated with it so drugs are certainly worse than a so called “natural high” but it would not be fair to simply dismiss this as being a more “natural” response since it doesn’t involve drugs.. in some small way it actually does.. your brains natural neurostimulant that is every bit as powerful as actually injecting adrenaline right into your heart and perhaps every bit as dangerous.
So why am I even telling you this? I respect your ability to make decisions and calculate risk so I will treat you like an adult and assume you can assess the consequences appropriately and decide what is right for you. I respect you enough to say I don’t have the type of credentials to advise on this so this is information only, but to know that the risk for all things in life is ultimately your own. Having said that you can use caffeine as many do but in a more strategic and powerful way as suggested in my first “become an early riser” post, or you can take the more natural Steve Pavlina approach to working on it over time and trying to train your brain to respond to an alarm through practice... or you can use the enhanced version to get jacked up on insane levels of energy and figure out a way to manage that and mitigate the risks associated with it through early morning and regular exercise.
Steve Pavlina back then had a mentality of patience and perseverance. My strategy is one of basically creating neurological triggers to unleash somewhere between an intense to dangerously insane amount of productivity fuel. Channeling it into useful things will be up to you.
I don’t specifically recommend (or recommend against) Polyphasic Sleep, but it’s a topic where if you are seeking to spike your energy and productivity you can’t ignore at least reading about it. The supposed aim is to retrain your circadian rhythm and brain to hit The most useful kind of sleep—REM sleep—right away. Deep sleep is actually associated with rest and repair so if you are physically active and work out polyphasic sleep is probably a terrible idea. And I’m not giving an opinion on whether or not it is a good idea in some circumstances as I don’t actually know and I don’t know that anyone can. The actual risks and potential consequences of it have to be respected and given full credence to (along with the fact that many of them may be totally unknown) before you even consider it.
My suspicion is that anyone who successfully responds to an alarm at least has some level of adrenaline and catacholamines associated with waking up. Without that I don’t think polyphasic sleep will even work if you try. But I think the danger might be similar to the same danger that excessive stress over time has on the body. It’s actually ultimately deadly, or at least statistically increased chances compared to avoiding it. And yet, many people take on deadly levels of stress to get the things they want such as deal with some of the consequences of relationships and marriage and kids and financial stress associated with work and work and traffic and so on. Intense exercise, weight lifting, sexual activity and other physical exersion can mitigate some of the risks, but not all of them. There is a positive form of stress (the desire and slight pressure to do well) that causes enough challenge to rise to the occasion such as competing an a race that causes one to improve ones self, but that is not what we are talking about. At any rate, independent from the stress related and adrenaline related risks polyphasic sleep has some complete unknown risks the occurs from avoiding the deep sleep phase altogether. There simply aren’t enough long term studies that discuss avoiding just the deep sleep but getting rem sleep to even get a picture as to what the consequences are. There is simply The unknown variable about what certain stages of sleep even do that make it hard to tell what the long term cognitive results are going to tend to be.
There are many other things I could cover. And perhaps I will in the future. the foods you consume happen to have a big impact on energy and there is a lot I know and a lot more to explore. For some reason whenever I have cinnamon and vanilla extract I have extra energy that lasts. I tried adding to my coffee today and look, I started a blog and created 3 posts ready to publish. I also in high school used to put in my French toast (Along with eggs milk and butter and syrup) I used to make once a week and have some leftovers for breakfast for a couple days a week and I remember people saying “How do you have so much energy?!” The sugar alone in the meal doesn’t explain it as normally a carb breakfast or having sugars results in a crash, but I didn’t feel that when I have the only other variable being vanilla extract and cinnamon. I haven’t tried to isolate the two and to be honest the eggs back then and caffeine now may also play a role. But not surprisingly my energy levels changed a lot over time when I stopped making French toast which resulted in an unproductive lull in my life even when I tried reading about productivity. Theory and application are also different things.
There is also Specific chains of amino acids that synthesize into the types of neurochemicals you will be accessing by way of mental “anchoring“. In other words a kind Pavlovian style conditioning of linking a specific neurochemical to a trigger (the sound of the alarm clock to adrenaline). This trigger actually requires your body to have synthesized enough of it. With almost all neurotransmitters, your body cannot produce enough naturally, you need some amount of specific types of amino acid protein chains that the body can synthesize into what it needs. In other words, energy levels is a function of what you eat. If you want to engineer your energy levels, you may want to also consciouslh choose diet, exercise, amount of sun levels, vitamins, minerals, amino acid chains, micronutrients, etc with all of that in mind. We will get into something of these other things in other posts.
For now though, let’s keep it simple. You control your energy by creating triggers and exercising in the morning. You become an early riser and you use that time early in the morning to focus on your top priorities.
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