If you decide to take stock of your life today: If you ask yourself:
- Where am I in my life now?
- What do I want in my life?
Would you say you are living to the best of your abilities? If not, Then the next question must be “How can I make that happen?”
A lot of great people that God sent here aren’t making the difference they were born to make. I get asked a lot why and how I find time to do all that I do. And that why In this episode I will share with you one of the biggest habits I have developed. This habit has had a tremendous impact on how effective I have become in recent years. it has changed my story from being miserable to living a life of fulfillment and purpose. I’m talking about the habit of waking up early.
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You see, for many years I used to see myself as a night owl. I would rather that everyone goes to bed and then I ca work. And I used to enjoy it, but the frustrating part was that as a busy wife and mom of 2 growing boys, no matter how late I slept, i still needed to wake up early in the morning to get the family life moving on smoothly. And that meant many time I didn’t get enough sleep. And to a large extent I was really stressed. meanwhile I didn’t think the reason of my stress was because of sleep or lack of it.
I used to think that the stress I had was a result of the difficult people in my life at the time, I thought it was my financial condition, and generally my environment and much more. I used to be frustrated with people, that they weren’t allowing me time enough to do all the things I wanted to do on earth.
I know a lot of great people who are frustrated each day. They are not able to do all that God designed them for, and so they think life is just too stressful. The environment is never palatable enough, people around just make them miserable. And each day they face the thought of when will it be my turn to start making the difference I was sent here to make.
Let me ask you a Quick question, do you ever feel this way? have you been feeling like your life was meant for more and you aren’t getting the chance to make the difference you were born to make?
If yes, I wanna suggest to you that you need to start waking up earlier and you will see the huge impact this single habit will have on you.
Listen to some of the advantages I have noticed in my life.
- You can put God first
- Supernatural ideas for operations
- More productivity-clear mind
- Mental fitness-no rush in the morning-in control of your day, less stress.
- Better sleep quality-healthy living
- Brighter world-joyful all day
Trust me, just ask any other great people you look up to, and then will tell you that this is the number one habit that makes the difference for them.
So here is the deal, if you want to achieve greatness like many of the people you admire in life, you will need to develop this habit as well. And how are you going to switch from being a night person to being a morning person?
Here is it: You make up your mind that you want to make the difference you were created for and so tonight, you will set your alarm to wake up 1 hour earlier. Thats it. And just do it.
If you do, you will need to adjust when you sleep but just do it. See there are people out there that are waiting for you. You can’t afford to remain frustrated, no you can’t.
I created a podcast sometimes last year where I tell you what I do it the morning when I wake up. You can find that here. Though I have greatly improved on what I do when I wake up, you will still benefit a lot from it.
I want to hear from you, do you wake up early? How has it helped you? Leave me a comment below.
Thanks and have a fantastic week!
Wowww! I love this episode. And I really wish I can do this, especially when I have the “I need alot of prayer feeling all over me” . How beautiful it sounds to wake early, come outside, pray and exercise together !
Thanks for this Pastor Olu.
Olu, thank you for this podcast.
This came at the right time.
I’m starting a new job, I need to get up at 5 am.
I’m not a morning person.
I will go to sleep earlier.
I’m going to pray.
I’m going to tell myself I can do it and there is a reason God has brought this into my life and I’m going to remind myself I’m doing it for God.
God bless you!
Julie
Fantastic Julie! You got it.
Congrats on the new job. God has given you all you need to be fantastic in this season of your life.
Raving for you sis! I can only imagine how efficient you would be at your new job. There’s a huge difference between early risers and late riser. At first, it may be hard, (it wasn’t hard for me as soon as I made up my mind to switch to becoming a goal getter) if it is, don’t give up. There’s gold in this habit. Thanks for dropping by Julie.
Oluwafeyikemi, I really love feedbacks like yours, they makes this even much sweeter.
Let’s try and move this from “I really wish I can do this to” to “I’m starting this tomorrow morning” How about that? Please keep me posted, will you?