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Melanie Juarez

Dr. Sharity Nelson

ENGL 1302-208

31 January 2023

The Benefits of waking Up Early

Introduction

Many people don't know about the benefits of waking up early. There is a saying that

goes, “The early bird gets the worm.” This saying is used most of the time for people who wake

up first. It means people who are early get things done early, are healthy, and achieve goals.

Although many people around the world wake up early for school, jobs, etc…, many don't like

waking up early. People who don't like the morning tend to be the people who sleep late during

the night. Scientific research by Edinoff, et al, has been done on insomnia side effects and how it

disrupts a person's life. Another study by Kadian, Arnav, et al., was provided by the subjects who

were medical undergraduate students and were tested on how phones affect their sleep health.

Lastly, a research by Harada, Tetsuo, et al., called “three benefits,” which are going to bed early,

waking up early, and eating nutritiously in the morning.

Experiment/Methods

The methods gathered for the experiment by a student from Texas A&M International

University (TAMIU). The TAMIU student schedules all the classes to start at 8:30 in the morning

in order to get up early. While scheduling early class, the TAMIU student has the mindset that

waking up early will later be a natural habit and will help her in the future. The subject would get

up at seven in the morning and get changed and do things needed before leaving or class. The

subject is studying nursing, so getting used to waking up early and being active during the day is
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something that is needed in the medical field. The medical field and school require for the

subject to be up at early times, active, and productive. This schedule will later on get the subject

to be accustomed to wake up at early times without trouble. As soon as the subjects class

finished, they went to run errands early in the morning or afternoon. On Monday, Wednesday,

and Friday the subject would leave around the afternoon, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the

subject would leave at ten in the morning. This scheduling left the subject with a lot of time span

to do what was needed early in the day. Since most establishments open at ten it was a beneficial

time to finish class. During Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, the subjects had an hour between.

The subject would go to bed early and have some things prepared for the morning in order to be

ready faster. As the subject had a very productive day, sleeping at night was much easier. The

productive and active day made the subject get tired, in which sleep and rest was very much

necessary. After a week, the subject got accustomed to waking up and going about their day

without any trouble. The subject would go to classes and then do chores leaving still spare time

to do whatever the subject wanted. After the first week passed by the subject started to wake up

fifteen to twenty minutes late. This made the subject have to get ready faster in order to start

their day at the same time they alway would. The subject would not get to do breakfast and

would forget things. The subject was sleeping in late, because of their phone and being on social

media. Kadian, et al., studied how medical students' mobile phones affected their sleep.

According to, Kadian, et al., “The findings of this study suggest that high mobile phone usage by

medical students adversely impacts their sleep health,” this research statement is mentioned in

order to support that phones affect sleep (131). As the subject kept feeling tired in the morning

and guilty at night for being on their phone, they felt their sleep health going down. In another

study research by Edinoff, et al., “Insomnia can significantly impact daytime functioning
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resulting in decreased workplace productivity, ... and poor quality of life,”when sleep health is

affected a person tends to be out of their usual mind set and overall looks drowsy (2). The subject

started to dislike the feeling of not getting insufficient sleep, the next day and the notice of less

productivity throughout the day. After two weeks of the same fast paced and tired wake up

morning, the subject started to wake up early again in order to have more time to get ready and

have breakfast. As the subject went back to waking up early, a more efficient morning was

noticed. More productivity was seen than on the first day, since the subject has experienced that

waking up early gets you more productivity throughout the day.

Results

The experiment resulted in waking up early does help in productivity and has benefits for

daily activities. The results are very positive, since the subject got more done throughout the day.

The subject's day was productive all day, even with the free time left over. The subject seemed to

be more productive throughout the day as they woke up early in the day and had more time to

study up on classes. In the morning, the subject would get up and get dressed and go to the

classes. In between classes, there was an hour to two hours gap in which the subject studied and

catch up on work. As we observed the day of the subject, productivity can be concluded. The

subject would finish classes around the afternoon or before, therefore leave the subjects a lot of

spare time to do errands. The subject overall seemed to be very satisfied with the results of

waking up early and having a productive day. The subject got many things done through the first

week and a little less in the second and third week. The overall productivity aroused in the fourth
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week and the subject had the most productive day.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the subject and the experiment overall proved that waking up early is

beneficial for productivity and success. The experiment proved that waking up early has many

benefits. Tetsuo Harada talks about the benefits of waking up early to improve the performance

of his university soccer team. According to Harada, et al., “Sleep quality of the soccer team

members three month after the intervention was better …,” this research statement proves that

waking up early will improve your health and productivity (S68). Proving that getting enough

sleep and waking up early will improve health, productivity, performance, success, etc…
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Works Cited

Edinoff, Amber N., et al. “Zolpidem: Efficacy and Side Effects for Insomnia.” Health

Psychology Research, vol 9, no. 1, 2021, pp. ??-??. Academic Search Complete,

doi:10.52965/001c.24927.

Kadian, Arnav, et al., “Mobile phone use and its effect on quality of sleep in medical

undergraduate students at a tertiary care hospital.” Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied

Sciences, vol 10, no. 2, 2019,pp. . Academic Search Complete,

doi:10.5958/2394-2061.2019.00028.4

Harada, Tetsuo, et al., “Intervention study using a leaflet entitled ‘three benefits of ‘‘go to bed

early! get up early! and intake nutritionally rich breakfast!’’ a message for athletes’ to

improve the soccer performance of university soccer team.” Sleep Biol. Rhythms, vol 14

no. 1, 2016, pp. , Academic Search Complete, doi:S65–S74 DOI

10.1007/s41105-015-0035-5