Article: on't hit the snooze button. It's tempting to get a few extra minutes of sleep in the morning by hitting "snooze" on the alarm; however, doing so can make you groggy, which means you'll want to sleep even more. Try to get up as soon as the alarm starts to go off. Don't set multiple alarms, either. You may like waking up to the first alarm knowing you have another 15 or 30 minutes to sleep before your "real" alarm goes off, but this will interrupt your sleep cycle and make it harder to get up when it's time. One way to ensure you wake up is to make sure your alarm clock isn't within arm's reach. Basically, you don't want to be able to hit snooze. Try moving it across the room so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. Another thing that can help you wake up is to use a natural light alarm clock. It's like having a little sun in your bedroom to wake you up. You can make getting up easier by having something you love every morning. Maybe it's as simple as a cup of tea or a coffee, or maybe you have a bowl of your favorite cereal. Use something you love as a motivation to get up and moving.
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. Look forward to something.
Article: People often experience a funk after they have met a goal and suddenly find themselves without any specific purpose to motivate them. Set a short-term goal and long-term goal, complete with rewards if you meet your goals. Consider telling a friend about your goal so that she can serve as an accountability partner and help motivate you to achieve the goal. If you set a goal to run a 5K in two months and you tell your friend, she can ask about your progress in training and then ask how the race went. But if you tell no one, you'll find it harder to get out and train to meet your goal. If you find yourself surrounded by negative or cynical people, you can lose your motivation and lust for life because of their influence. Limit time with these people or ask them to be more positive for mutual benefit. Facebook and other social media are major sources of this type of input. Never before in history have we had so many social relationships that we utilize on a daily basis, even though the relationships are more often than not shallow acquaintances we don't actually know. If you find that your Facebook or Twitter feed is full of people who complain, criticize, or post depressing news routinely, hide or unfriend them. This type of consist negative input will not help you get out of your funk. Renew your connections with the people who are most important to you, especially those who bring out the best in you. Reconnecting with people who have meant a lot to you throughout your life can help remind you of where you have been as an individual, how you have changed, and where you are going in life. Think about the friend who is guaranteed to make you laugh and feel alive and energized, and call up that person and ask to meet for dinner and dancing. Dress up, have fun, and let yourself really let loose.
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Set goals. Survey your relationships. Call up an old friend.
Article: When you wink at someone, you only communicate something if they see you winking. So, before you do anything else, make eye contact with the person you plan to wink at. Try hard not to squint with the eye you are keeping open. The effort of keeping this eye open sometimes results in squinting for the beginning winker. When you first start out, this squinting will be hard to control. Again, with practice, you'll find you are doing this less and less.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Make eye contact. Don't squint.