{"id":64,"date":"2007-05-27T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-05-27T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T09:24:23","slug":"10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it-zen-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/05\/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it-zen-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It | zen habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fotos-sunrise.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-64];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fotos-sunrise.jpg','popup','width=380,height=266,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fotos-sunrise-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"142\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Fotos Sunrise\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2007\/05\/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it\/\" >10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It | zen habits<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00ab The Amazing Power of One<br \/>\nWork in Bursts; 10 Productive Backpack Uses; Pare Your To-do List \u00c2\u00bb<br \/>\n10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It<\/p>\n<p>Every Friday is Happiness Friday on Zen Habits.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; Ben Franklin, famously<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>Recently, reader Rob asked me about my habit of waking at 4:30 a.m. each day, and asked me to write about the health benefits of rising early, which I thought was an excellent question. Unfortunately, there are none, that I know of.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a ton of other great benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let me first say that if you are a night owl, and that works for you, I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reason to change, especially if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re happy with it. But for me, switching from being a night owl to an early riser (and yes, it is possible) has been a godsend. It has helped me in so many ways that I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It | zen habits: \u00c2\u00ab The Amazing Power of One Work in Bursts; 10 Productive Backpack Uses; Pare Your To-do List \u00c2\u00bb 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It Every Friday is Happiness Friday on Zen Habits. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Early to bed and early to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/05\/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it-zen-habits\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It | zen habits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-12","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}