在漫长的人生中，时常使用这种态度来处理问题，实为明智之举。比方说：如果我们想解决一个重要但困难的问题，单单只想出一个解决方案是不够的。面对复杂的问题时，单一的解决方案通常不能全面的彻底解决问题，一起使用几个方案来应对瞬息万变的情况，才是万全之策。

有人一定会问：如果三个窟窿都被堵住，不能通行了，那么我们怎么办呢？我们也只能叹一口长气。其实面对人生的诸多问题，是没有一种完全的应对策略的，所以只要我们做足了准备工作，那也足够了。如果拥有三个窟窿还是免不了“一死”，那也是命中注定，天意难为。有些问题，我们始终要承认与接受（至少在目前）自己的有限能力。

说了那么多，笃信狡兔三窟这种人生态度是百益无害的吗？那也不尽然。其态度的重点其实包含逃脱的可能性。虽然这通常是件好事，但是有时候也可能是致命伤。举个例子：有些人非常有才华，能在多个领域里游刃有余。问题是：当他们在一个领域遇到难题时，很容易为了避免面对难题而逃向另外一个领域。试想想：如果一个人一生都一直不断穿梭于不同的领域中，他能有任何成就吗？答案肯定是不可能！想要得到任何成就，必须在一个领域里坚守与苦干，面对和克服种种问题，有时还要采取破釜沉舟、背水一战的决心，最终才能发光发热、建立丰功伟业！

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21 tips you can use to wake up early AND stay up:

1.         Understand your reason for wanting to wake up early. What is it? Is it to have time to do your personal activities? To get more work done? To get a head start in your day?

2.         Make a personal commitment to yourself to achieve this goal. If you have made the decision to wake up early, then be accountable and live up to it.

3.         Create a reward for accomplishing this goal. It should be enticing enough to motivate you throughout the whole process.

4.         Plaster your goal prominently everywhere: on your noticeboard, your notebook, your vision board (if you have one), your wallpaper, etc. Spell out clearly the time you want to wake up and make it big and bold.

5.         Be accountable to others. Share your goal with friends/family/acquaintances/strangers.

6.         Cut out the stimulants that affect your sleep schedule, namely caffeine (coffee, tea, coke/soda) and alcohol. These messes around with your sleep and quality of your sleep, which subsequently affects your waking time.

7.         Make a transition. Instead of waking immediately at XXam, improve your waking time by 15~30min every day until you reach your goal.

8.         Plan a non-negotiable agenda for the next day. This agenda should starting right from the point you are supposed to wake up right till your day ends. It should be so compact that you have to wake up on time to finish everything planned.

9.         Create urgency # 1. Set up extremely important and urgent tasks as the first items of the day so you have to wake up and finish them.

10.     Create urgency # 2. Fix an appointment with someone early in the morning; it should be with someone you cannot cancel on or there will be dire consequences.

11.     Get a morning call service. Some services are: iPing and Wake Up Land. Or you can ask someone who will be awake then to call you.

12.     Sleep earlier. This one is probably the single most important tip out of the whole list. Let’s be realistic – if you target to wake up at 5am, don’t turn in at only 1am or 2am the night before expecting to be successful in waking up on time. You already are setting yourself an uphill challenge! When I do sleep early and ensure I have sufficient sleep, waking up early / when the alarm rings becomes a very easy, natural task.

13.     Set your alarm clock. Goes without saying! After you get into a regular sleeping schedule, you will likely find yourself waking up automatically at around the same time every day without need for an alarm clock.

14.     Set multiple alarm clocks (3-5) at the same or different times (5 minutes apart from each other). This is for the heavy sleepers; I’m quite a light sleeper so just one alarm clock does the trick. Multiple alarm clocks tend to backfire on me – having all the ringing makes me feel disrupted instead and the first instinct while I’m in a semi-conscious state will be to return to sleep where it’s nice and quiet.

15.     Put your alarm clock(s) really far from you (but still audible) such that you need to get off your bed to reach it.

16.     Switch your alarm to your favourite music/mp3 By the time the music finishes playing, you will be more awake and ready to get up. I have tried this before but it does seem like it will be an effective method.  

17.     Before you sleep, hold in your mind the time you intend to wake up all the way until you fall asleep. When I wake, I usually find that this intent flies into my mind as the first thought and it helps drive me to wake up.

18.     Set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier than your designated time. When it rings, put it on snooze, and spend the next 15 minutes mentally preparing yourself so you can get up voluntarily once the alarm rings again.

19.     Get out of the bed immediately once you hear the alarm. You all know how it feels in the morning when you wake up – the voice in your head is just coaxing you to go to sleep every morning despite your best intents to want to wake up. Instead of giving it the chance to speak, immediately get your physical body out of the bed and walk out! Once you last the first 5 minutes, you will find that sleepiness wears off very quickly and the day actually moves ahead as your other days.

20.     Establish it as a daily habit. Making it a daily habit will be easier to maintain than if it’s only 5 days a week. If you keep having to balance around different timing schedules on weekdays and weekends, your body clock has to constantly adjust and it makes your task much harder.

21.     Load up a full combination of the tips above for your complete arsenal to blast this goal wide open!

Give it a try today and see which method works best for you!