Comments on: The Blueprint of Instant Habitual Change

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:21:56 +0000

Great post. I came to the similar conclusions couple of years ago but never had a chance to put it into words. What’s more, waking up earlier than most people gives you all benefits that come with the sunlight while limiting time wasted in traffic, queues, etc.

By: Patience | Life Outside The Box | Tynan

Patience | Life Outside The Box | Tynan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:32:00 +0000

[...] before effortlessly chats with Japanese people now. This is the other side that I talked about in Instant Habitual Change.Maybe it’s a result of our instant gratification culture that people don’t like waiting [...]

By: No Computer After 11pm to Become an Early Riser

No Computer After 11pm to Become an Early Riser — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:51 +0000

[...] week, when I was talking about making instant habitual change, I gave the example of turning of the computer at 11pm to avoid staying up late and sleeping in. [...]

By: Adventure-Some Matthew

Adventure-Some Matthew — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:16:21 +0000

Great post, Tynan! I love the advantages of getting up early, when I make myself do it. Unfortunately, I’m not great at it, because it’s so easy to stay up later at night. I’ll have to implement your suggestions.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:55:55 +0000

Being moderate does increase your productivity and pleasure value.

Economically speak, marginal value is a measurement of pleasure and pain in marketplace. For instance, if I had a cup of coffee. It is good. I have second cup. It is ok. I am shooting for third, it is not good as first one. The more we do and the more it diminished.

By: ChinaBoy

ChinaBoy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:20 +0000

To get more benefit being a early riser get up at 6.

i personally get up everyday at 5 o clock. maybe ill change it to 4.

By: Nev

Nev — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:23:29 +0000

Did you take a writing class recently? That was an excellent post Ty!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:33:11 +0000

Great post, Tynan. I’ve been eating semi-healthily for the last six months. Since then, I’ve lost 85lbs. I’ve been really happy with the results, but my losses have kind of bottomed out recently, because I’ve been making a few too many of those exceptions you mentioned. I think this post has helped me get my head on straight, again.

Also, I’d like to thank you for that link about depression. Depression–or what I think is depression, at least–is something I’ve been struggling with for some time, now. I like living a straight edge lifestyle, but I’ve been considering medication, more and more. Hearing someone else’s story is a real confidence booster, and it’s inspired me, for the first time, to read more about the subject.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:23:24 +0000

I very much agree with the concepts here. Especially the part about making exceptions.

When I was in college, if I ever skipped class because I said to my self, “just once won’t hurt,” the mental barrier against doing it again was gone for the rest of the semester!

However I do love sleeping in late! Professionals say that you only need 15 minutes of sun a day to get the right ammount of vitamin D. Anything more than that just contributes to skin damage, as most aging is due to sun damage. Plus most of my friends are night owls so whenever I do have to get up early I end up having to go to bed early and I miss out on all the fun.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:26:20 +0000

Nice article but 8:30 is not early. If you want to start your day energised try to get up at 7:00 at the very latest.