Wake up 1 hour earlier and youll be 100X more productive (over time)

Wake up 1 hur earlier and youll be 100X mora productive (over time)Wake up 1 hour earlier and youll be 100X more productive (over time)Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. RichardWhatelyThe difference between waking up at 5 AM and waking up at 6 AM(or at 6 AM instead of 7 AM)may not seem like a very big deal.However, when you look at the compounding effects over time, youll be shocked at how much that one hour could do to your life. Not only the compounding effects but when you look at the ripple effects into all other areas, youll also be stunned.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreHere are a few reasons why this one hour can make such a big differenceThe ideasyou get when you are up earlierare not available to youif you wake up laterThe timefor concentrated action isnot availablelaterThe confidenceyou build by putting first-things-first isnot ava ilablelaterThe compounding effectsand their unpredictable but natural byproducts (such as relationships, opportunities, etc.) arenot availablelaterMost people wake up at the absolute latest time they have to, based on their busy schedule. They purposefully dont leave themselves much time. They definitely dont leave themselves time for thinking, meditating, reflecting, visualizing, learning, exercising, orcreating.Compound effects You miss ideas by missing that 1 hourTell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now. Napoleon HillWhen you wake up in a hurry, you missmillion dollar ideas.When you wake up in a hurry, over time, you actually missmillions of ideas. Think about it, if you got 10 extra ideas during that one hour of alone time, that would be 3,650 over a year. Over 50 years, that would be 182,500 ideas.But over those 50 years, youd become a much different person. If you actually started ge tting up early and getting new and better ideas, and then acting on those ideas, youd develop a new brain and personality.This would lead to more and better ideas.So, over those 50 years, youd increasingly becomemore creative. Youd become a better thinker. Your actions would become better. Your goals would become more clarified. Youd become more courageous at acting on your ideas. Youd develop more capabilities, skills, and confidence over time.Thus, your ideas wouldnt just increase by 3,650 every year. Actually, using a compounding interest calculatorif you multiplied those 3,650 ideas (or dollars) by 5% over 50 years,and if the compounding effect occurred 4 times per year,every quarter,then youd actually end up with 812,800.39 ideas.As youll notice in the image below, I made the starting place 10, because if you start today, you could have 10 new ideas.Theres something compounding interest doesnt fully take into account, though, and thats opportunity cost and opportunity expansion .Lets just say you get 10 new good ideas per day. But over time, thequalityof those ideas become 10X or 100X better.The truth is, youre actually already having thousands of thoughts daily. Its the quality of those thoughts that matters. 95% of your thoughts recur daily. Albert Einstein said,We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.When your brain becomes more creative, when you have more knowledge, skills, connections, and confidence then the value of each befhigung idea could become millions of dollars.But if you never give yourself the time and space to get those ideas, then youll never experience this effect on your mind.Also, if you never give yourself the time to act on your ideas, then youll never witness how thoughts can become things. You have the innate power to harness your mind to create.The more creative you become, the more abundant you become. You start to realize that what you send out into the world in the form of thoughts, emo tions, deeds comes back to you (some have called this the law of the boomerang).Ripple effects You will fundamentally change as a personYou also start to realize that by small and simple means, great things occur. The small act of waking up one hour early, over time, will change every area of your life. It will change you as a person in fundamental and profound ways.In the book,The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg explains the idea of keystone habits. A keystone habit is one change you make in your life that then goes on to change everything else.From a systems perspective, the idea iswhen you change a parte of any system, you change the whole system.When you begin waking up one hour earlier, youll start to think better. Youll start to knock out those things youve wanted to do, but have been procrastinating. Youll have more time for meditation, reflection, and prayer. So, youll likely become more spiritual.Youll start to look at your whole life differently and begin noticing things yo u didnt see before. Youll see where things have gotten out of control and disorganized. Youll begin to see all of the time you waste on stuff that doesnt matter.Most importantly, youll begin to realize that the entire system of your life is generating the results youre currently getting. Youll see that your whole life is based on ideas, stories, and assumptions that are incredibly limited.Youll see that how your family is currently operating could be 10X or 100X better with more intention, time together, and a totally different way of interacting.Youll see that, in buchen to create new and better experiences with your family, youll need more time with them and ways to earn more money. Therefore, your current job and lifestyle will have to change.Because your awareness and motivation and vision are expanding, new ideas will start to come your way. The degree to which you nourish those ideas through courageous action will determine if the ideas go away or come with greater force.The m ore action you take on your ideas, the more they will come. The more action you take on your ideas, the more you will change as a person.Small ideas like buying flowers for your wife on the way home from work, looking her deep in the eyes, and telling her how much you love and appreciate her will change your life.Acting on those ideas leads to other ideas.Its usually the idea after the idea that brings the most gold.But if you dont act on the first, youll never be in a place to experience the second, or third, or fourth.Experiences are the doorways to better ideas.Experiences reshape your confidence, imagination, and future.The more powerful experiences you start having, the more youll upgrade your thinking and your life.Over a handful of years of living and thinking better, youll have a totally different life. You could be making millions of dollars. You could have an absolutely amazing family. You could be living your dreams. And from there, you could then really begin thinking ab out how you could make this world a better place.How to become 100X more productive (and successful)Thinking 10X or ever 100X bigger isnt that strange when you start living by different rules.When you start using your time better, you begin making more time. Even though we all have 24 hours in the same day, those 24 hours are not the same. Einstein made it abundantly clear that time is RELATIVE.Time is relative to each person.For some people, making $1 million dollars, at their current rate, would take 20 years. For others, making $1 million dollars can occur in a single day.So although we all have 24 hours, the possibilities of and within those 24 hours are quite different.When you give yourself 1 extra hour per day, you are potentially expanding your time and potential by 10X, initially. Youll start getting new and better ideas. Youll start taking action on the stuff youve have been procrastinating. As a result of getting better ideas and taking action, youll begin developing conf idence in yourself, which will immediately expand how you see yourself and your future. Thus, youll start setting bigger goals and striving for better things.Your increasing confidence will ripple into the other areas of your life. How you do anything is often how you do everything. Thus, youll start to become more organized in your business. Youll start to become more caring and thoughtful in your relationships. Youll start to organize yourself and your life to match your highest values.Over 510 years, you could easily be making 10X what youre making now by doing this. How you spend your time and where you live could be different.Over 1020 years, you could easily be making 100X what youre making now by doing this.Over time, compounding effects can be huge.Over time, ripple effects become huge.Conclusion The two easiest ways to build unstoppable confidenceThe two easiest ways to build unstoppable confidence areStarting the day rightEnding the day rightStarting the day right is easie r than ending the day right. A lot of people are starters, but few people are finishers. Hence, many people end even what would have been a good day by binging on TV and junk food.Going to bed a few minutes later than you could have because you were mindlessly wandering on FB is not how you build confidence.If you end your day with negative momentum, that will subconsciously affect you during your sleep. That negative momentum will affect your confidence and decision-making ability the next morning.Anyone who has learned to master their mornings also learned the importance of their evenings. You dont want to wake up earlier without adjusting your sleep schedule. The idea isnt less sleep. Its sleeping at the optimal time given your situation in life.Many people will complain about the idea of not being able to go to bed an hour earlier. But with some self-examination, it wouldnt take a lot of rearranging to adjust their schedule for one hour. We all waste way more than one hour per d ay. And usually, in our evenings, we waste several. Those evening hours could be re-allocated, and when done so, the return could be astronomic.Building confidence requires that you continually start and end your days better.You end your days better by engaging in better activities.You dont have to eat junk food and waste your time at night. You could be present with your family. You could do some learning, or recovering in better ways.Going to bed having spent your time in meaningful ways is powerful.Laying your head on your pillow and knowing you spent your night on your highest values and priorities is how you build your confidence.That confidence will ripple HUGE into your next morning.Over time, youll find yourself as a different person with a totally different life. Youll have a bigger imagination. Youll have more confidence. Your daily behaviors and thinking will be totally upgraded. Your relationships, opportunities, and goals will be enormously bigger and different than you can presently imagine. Your lifestyle and environment will be inspiring.You can do this.You have so much to lose if you dont.Small and simple things create HUGE change.One hour per day will change your whole life.Ready to upgrade? Ive created a cheat sheet for putting yourself into a PEAK-STATE, immediately. You follow this daily, your life will change very quickly. 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