- Take bath the first or second thing after waking up. In case you delay it, rest assured you will be feeling cold for the rest of the day.
- Invest in a kaam chalau room heater at least, and make sure cold isnt the reason why you are not getting up. On days you dont have SFG, its fair, if you get all dressed up with winter cloths and go out for tea. That small 5-10 min walk will warm you up.
- Lastly have a strong sense of purpose. You should have things to do the night before, so much so that you look foward to waking up. I am a little older now, but I totally see the difference where I *so* look forward to doing things early the next day that I want morning to happen as soon as possible.
- This isnt to do with handling winter, but generally about motivation in the mornings. The people you talk to, the people you follow and listen make a lot of difference. I remember when I used to wake up at 4AM, and study, review MGP questions, read newspaper, work on my GS 4 content, my father ( who inculcated the 4AM thing in me as a child - and he himself would bring home files from office and wake up at 4am to dispose them - and I watched it as a child ) my father would give me a pat in the back - and say that if you work so hard, results will definitely be good. I lost him in Covid, and i sometimes meet people who come to know that I do such things, they end up discouraging me - saying you have no quality of life, why wake up at 4 to study, when will you get out of this etc.. I ignore such people, but the game is in hanging out with the right people.
Bathing in winters takes meticulous extensive and prolonged planning which when avoided saves time. Better is to just stay in a heated room and bath once or twice a week
