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id="more-311"></span></p><blockquote><p>Security is not a product but a process</p></blockquote><p
style="text-align: justify;">I think it&#8217;s the same regarding the SEO, but the word &#8220;process&#8221; is not good, is too generic so I prefer to use &#8220;marathon&#8221;, why?<br
/> Because to sustain a marathon should be better prepared not leaving anything to chance, but very carefully prepared and carefully analyzing all the aspects that are part of a preparation aimed at Marathon; we should schedule training macrocycles based on your experiences in foot and we can organize them into:</p><ul><li>Period of Building or General;</li><li>Fundamental Period;</li><li>Period Specific or Competitive;</li></ul><p
style="text-align: justify;">and the same for SEO. We cannot expect great results right away but it takes time, practice and perseverance as to obtain a good position in SERPs, at the beginning we don&#8217;t have a good results but if we making the appropriate strategies and maintaining an ongoing SEO strategy in the long term, we will begin to see valid and meaningful results and will continue to add more value to our business.</p> <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/02/seo-is-like-a-marathon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Build an SEO Team</title><link>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/02/build-an-seo-team/</link> <comments>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/02/build-an-seo-team/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Fabrizio Di Carlo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UX]]></category> <category><![CDATA[content writer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[content writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[how to manage a project]]></category> <category><![CDATA[information architecture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[networking skills]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quality link]]></category> <category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strategist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[visibility]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fdicarlo.com/?p=276</guid> <description><![CDATA[Every SEO project requires a different sort of team. But if I were responsible for building an SEO team that rocks these are Key Players I want! Content writer an individual who specializes in providing relevant text content for websites. Content writers must be capable of adapting their writing to the varying demands of different websites. [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p
style="text-align: justify;"><em>Every SEO project requires a different sort of team. But if I were responsible for building an SEO team that rocks these are Key Players I want!</em></p><p><span
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style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Content writer</strong> an individual who specializes in providing relevant text content for websites. Content writers must be capable of adapting their writing to the varying demands of different websites. Most of their work centers on marketing products or services that particular websites are selling or endorsing.</li><li
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Analyst/Strategist</strong> whose goal is to do all the analysis and development of new strategies to improve the performance of the services of SEO/SEM, improving results of visibility, traffic and conversion, so as to support our customers&#8217; expectations.</li><li
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A Link Builder</strong> is worth their weight in gold. Anyone can find links to sites with low page rank or domain authority. A solid link builder will understand quality link building and how to build a link portfolio that looks natural to the search engines. They should not be satisfied with just link building but link maintenance as well so that overall link quantity continues to rise year after year. It is important to find someone with networking skills that will build relationships which will convert into .edu, .gov and other high value links.</li><li
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A Keyword Specialist</strong></li><li
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>UX Designer:</strong> we have already discussed <a
title="SEO and UX: why are not two separate things (1/2)" href="http://www.fdicarlo.com/2011/12/seo-and-ux-why-are-not-two-separate-things-part-one/">how SEO can use the UX</a> (or Information Architecture) and which advantages bring. Obviously a site is made ​​for people and not for a search engine, have a UX expert can only bring benefits.</li><li
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Project Manager:</strong> the success of an SEO campaign is not limited to your ability to execute SEO tactics. It’s often dictated by your ability to manage projects, people, clients, and external factors. As your strategies become more complex, learning how to manage a project is an invaluable skill. I believe skills as a project manager helps an SEO manage expectations, put out fires, and work to get buy-in on an idea.</li></ul><p>Of course this is my idea, you can improve, expand, focus more on Social Media, not have all the figures. Tell me your opinion.</p> <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/02/build-an-seo-team/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>My article on Tuts+</title><link>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/my-article-on-tuts/</link> <comments>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/my-article-on-tuts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Fabrizio Di Carlo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Me & The Web]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UX]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fdicarlo.com/?p=255</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very happy to announce that yesterday Tuts+ network has published my article about CDN and WordPress, you can found it here. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p
style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m very happy to announce that yesterday Tuts+ network has published my article about CDN and WordPress, you can found it <a
title="Alternative Use of Google App Engine for Optimizing WordPress" href="http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/alternative-use-of-google-app-engine-for-optimizing-wordpress/" target="_blank">here</a>.<span
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title="SEO and UX: why are not two separate things (1/2)" href="http://www.fdicarlo.com/2011/12/seo-and-ux-why-are-not-two-separate-things-part-one/">Last time</a> we talked about On-page factors, this time we&#8217;ll talk about Off-page factors, Social Media and other little tips and how this assets can improve your site usability.<span
id="more-193"></span></p><h2>Off-page factors</h2><p>Off-page SEO is the thing that happen outside of your site to help it get ranked (i.e. backlinks). Off-page SEO can:</p><ul><li>Compensate for flawed on page optimization for less competitive keywords.</li><li>Take a new page from not in the top 1000 results in Google to Page One in weeks.</li><li>Get deeper less important pages in Google, Yahoo or Bing’s index to create more mid-tail or long-tailtraffic.</li><li>Keep competitive pages at the top of search engines (if link quality, velocity and relevance are observed).</li></ul><p>and most important</p><ul><li>Develop authority for the page and website (which is the basis of long-term visibility in search engines).</li></ul><p>So, we would like to optimize them for SEO and for UX, how?</p><ul><li><strong>Embed Keywords Into Links</strong> this increases internal link relevancy and you don&#8217;t need to read contextual information above or below link to obtain meaning moreover it&#8217;s good for accessibility;</li><li><strong>Keyword Focused Breadcrumb Navigation</strong>, for SEO this automatically creates keyword focused internal link to each page on Web site but also users can see hierarchy of information and you can use Breadcrumb Navigation as orienting tool;</li><li><strong>Sitemap</strong>Sitemaps normalize the flow of Page Rank through the site and establish additional link relevance also allow visitors to use an additional navigation system which some users prefer (like lynx);</li><li><strong>Related Products Links</strong> establishing additional cross links at the product level augments SEO performance for those pages and improves conversion rates and up-sell potential by helping customers understand purchasing options.</li></ul><h2>Social Media</h2><p>Social media is media for social interaction as a superset beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate.</p><ul><li><strong>Link to Social Media Profiles on All Pages</strong> this increases the likelihood that these sites will rank for brand related terms (reputation management) and allows users to find social media profiles easily regardless of first entry page;</li><li><strong>Keyword Focused Tag Navigation</strong> establish additional keyword focused internal linking and provide additional navigation that is centered around the words that are most likely to resonate with users.</li></ul><h2>Other tips</h2><ul><li><strong>Make all PDF’s available in HTML format:</strong></li><ol><li>More pages on your website;</li><li>Spiders currently cannot parse all content within PDF’s</li><li>Losing link popularity;</li><li>Users have a reason to come back to website;</li><li>Open up more communication channels with users.</li></ol><li><strong>Site Navigation Not Built With Java Script or Flash</strong>: ensures that link metrics can be assigned correctly to each page of the Web site and that all pages on the Web site will be indexed. UX side: ensures that people who do not have these technologies enabled in their browser (i.e. iPhone broswer) will still be able to navigate the site and understand what the navigation is communicating.</li></ul> <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/seo-and-ux-why-are-not-two-separate-things-22/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A little tale about Usability</title><link>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/a-little-tale-about-usability/</link> <comments>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/a-little-tale-about-usability/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:15:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Fabrizio Di Carlo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Me & The Web]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software Engineering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Startup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pr]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pubblic relations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[usability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ux]]></category> <category><![CDATA[water company]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fdicarlo.com/?p=190</guid> <description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I had no water at home, we realized this only in the evening cause an unexpected dinner in my rustic. Looking for information on the site of the water company there was nothing, nothing even on the Internet, I sent an email without results. This morning after checking the mail around 10:30 am [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since yesterday I had no water at home, we realized this only in the evening cause an unexpected dinner in my rustic.  Looking for information on the site of the water company there was nothing, nothing even on the Internet, I sent an email without results.<span
id="more-190"></span> This morning after checking the mail around 10:30 am I call the call center and after waiting 5 minutes, because of other calls, the operator tells me that there is a sudden failure. Realizing the lack of warnings, normally found in planned interventions, then I asked why there was no communication on the company website, and the operator: &#8220;Oh, because we preferred to focus on failure rather than make a statement on the internet&#8221;.</p><p>Now, apart from that I can&#8217;t imagine the call center operators to fix their water pipes and sleeves but:</p><p>If only 50% of all callers, has a computer and know how to use it (ie, excluding older people or the famous housewife of Voghera) to understand what had happened, the wait would be decreased to 2.5 min and also operators would have had half of work, just spend 5 minutes writing a message.</p><p><strong>Here this is the Usability, benefits both for the company and for the users.</strong></p> <div class="feedflare">
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title="My FB profile" href="https://www.facebook.com/fdicarlo">facebook</a>, to all those who repay me with their comments and make me happy every time I log on and read.<span
id="more-154"></span></p><p>By now you should know, my taste in style, are quite clear&#8230; Let&#8217;s say I do not like to lose myself in &#8220;frivolous&#8221;) and Flash sites much prefer HTML5 &amp; CSS3 <img
src='http://www.fdicarlo.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt="icon smile Best wishes to all readers!" class='wp-smiley' title="Best wishes to all readers!" /> &#8230; So, the best way to make you the wishes you anticipate something about fdicarlo.com next year:</p><ul><li>Change hosting;</li><li>CDN for improve the performances of the website;</li><li>Some tutorials/courses about SEO, UX, Copywriting, etc;</li><li>And if someone want &#8220;Guest posts&#8221;;</li></ul><p>so Happy Holidays !</p> <div class="feedflare">
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style="text-align: justify;">I always thought that a website is made for people and not for Search Engines, and this has always been my guideline. I recently had a discussion with someone who thought that SEO was just a matter of Keywords, so I decided to write this article to let you know that you can have the most optimized site (on-site optimization) in the world but if the contents are not accessible, the site is slow, or something like that then all the SEO work is useless.</p><p
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id="more-129"></span>Since the advent of Web 2.0, off-page factors like Social Media (and the user-generated content) are becoming more important and is very crucial for a company to manage their aspects especially because through <a
title="Latent semantic indexing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_indexing" target="_blank">LSI</a> algorithms the Search Engines (and their spiders) can measure very accurately which documents in a <em>corpus</em> are really relevant with a search phrase even if the phrase appears in a document. Measure the relevance is a key component in an algorithm for sorting the results of a Search Engine. Now I&#8217;m trying to explain, and compare, which SEO and UX factors may bring benefits to a site.</p><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Keywords research</h2><p
style="text-align: justify;">Keyword research is a practice used by SEO professionals to find and research actual search terms people enter into the Search Engines when conducting a search. SEO professionals research keywords in order to achieve better rankings in their desired keywords. From UX side keywords are used to improves conversion, comprehension and is more likely to resonate with those users who are looking for those words.</p><h2 style="text-align: justify;">On-page factors</h2><ul
style="text-align: justify;"><li><strong>Title: </strong>For SEO is most important on-page element because keywords that appear in these fields are thought to be good indicators of overall content relevance. For the user, instead, title is used to understand in which page we are (think if you have, like me, 9-10 tabs of Chrome opened);</li><li><strong>Headings:</strong> Second most important on-page criteria, bring more weight to the contents and are used to summarize blocks of content, from a User perspective Headings break up information into meaningful chunks of information, improving the speed of searching and scanning documents;</li><li><strong>Content (1/2): </strong>Put most important content above the fold because some spiders have an indexing limitation and text at top of page given more weight. If you use inverted pyramid writing style (Conclusion first, then 1st supporting topic, 2nd supporting topic) because Users scan from top to bottom you can increase chances of being scanned by user;</li><li><strong>Content (2/2): </strong>Provide updated/new content, this provides new opportunities to target new keywords, you can have page of internal links to boost internal link popularity and crawlers come back more often like Users that have a reason to come back to website and you have a possibility to open up more communication channels with users;</li><li><strong>Alt Tags:</strong> Images should to have keyword focused, descriptive Alt tags; this approach allows the Search Engine to understand what keyword phrases the link is relevant for, and also allows users without image viewing capability to understand what content the link points to.</li></ul><p
style="text-align: justify;">For this first part is all, <a
title="SEO and UX: why are not two separate things (2/2)" href="http://www.fdicarlo.com/2012/01/seo-and-ux-why-are-not-two-separate-things-22/">next time</a> I will talk about Off-page factors, Social Media and other little things to improve the UX of your site.</p> <div class="feedflare">
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style="text-align: justify;">You could be the best SEO in the world but unless you can convince the interviewer of this then you will never get that dream job. Whilst listing competitive keywords and their rankings on your CV is a good place to start, most employers will expect you to be able to confidently and competently discuss your knowledge, techniques and opinions at interview.<br
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/> Tests will be written or verbal and are there to help them establish that you are the best person for the job.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Below is a copy of a post from http://forums.seo.ph/showthread.php?t=201. I don&#8217;t expect any Company to throw this many questions at you but you never know which ones they will ask – why not browse through them and see how many you can answer?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Before you ask, no – I don&#8217;t have the answers – however for those adept at using search engines, the answers should never be far away <img
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style="text-align: justify;">1. What SEO results can you show?<br
/> 2. What do you believe are important things to take into consideration when optimising a site?<br
/> 3. Who do you respect in the industry?<br
/> 4. What web analytics programs are you familiar with?<br
/> 5. List On-Page SEO factors<br
/> 6. List 5 link building techniques.<br
/> 7. What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)<br
/> 8. What&#8217;s the difference between PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?<br
/> 9. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI &#8211; Indexing)?<br
/> 10. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?<br
/> 11. What is sandbox?<br
/> 12. How long does it take to get out of sandbox?<br
/> 13. How can you track your rankings?<br
/> 14. What services does the wordtracker offer, and how do they relate to seo?<br
/> 15. What are the common factors between Google/yahoo/msn?<br
/> 16. How can you keep your PPC bids from cannibalizing your search efforts on other (non pay per click) search engines?<br
/> 17. What percentage of your pay per click budget should go to each search engine?<br
/> 18. Does either Google Adwords or Overture work better for your particular product or service? Or, perhaps neither one is appropriate from a return on investment (ROI) perspective.<br
/> 19. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.<br
/> 20. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and give me some examples.<br
/> 21. Do you operate any blogs?<br
/> 22. Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?<br
/> 23. Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?<br
/> 24. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?<br
/> 25. Have you attended any search related conferences?<br
/> 26. What SEO tools do you regularly use?<br
/> 27. What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and give examples of both.<br
/> 28. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?<br
/> 29. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other specific backlink strategies?<br
/> 30. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO, blogs, rss, podcasting, social media<br
/> 31. Are you familiar with search arbitrage?<br
/> 32. Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?<br
/> 33. Are you familiar with A/B testing and multivariate testing?<br
/> 34. Do you have experience in email marketing, banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online advertising?<br
/> 35. Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? To what extent and on what platforms?<br
/> 36. Do you have experience in bid management tools, API tools, and click fraud issues?<br
/> 37. Do you have experience in extensive competitive analysis and what techniques do you use?<br
/> 38. What technologies are you familiar with?<br
/> 39. Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?<br
/> 40. Do you know who Matt Cutts is?<br
/> 41. In Google Lore &#8211; what are &#8216;Hilltop&#8217; Florida&#8217; and &#8216;Big Daddy&#8217;?<br
/> 42. What changes did you make and what ranking effect did it have?<br
/> 43. What is sticky content?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">How is your experience? Which questions I missed, in your opinion?</p> <div class="feedflare">
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</div>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2011/12/sample-seo-questions/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Come svegliarsi presto al mattino</title><link>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2011/11/come-svegliarsi-presto-al-mattino/</link> <comments>http://www.fdicarlo.com/2011/11/come-svegliarsi-presto-al-mattino/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Fabrizio Di Carlo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obiettivo]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fdicarlo.com/?p=110</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mi ero ripromesso al mio ritorno da Berlino di cominciare a svegliarmi presto, purtroppo tra dire e il fare c&#8217;è di mezzo qualsiasi cosa e il mio proposito è saltato ma oggi mi sono alzato alle 7 e ho potuto constatare come l&#8217;alzarmi presto mi ha consentito di gestire tutto con più calma, prepararmi tranquillamente, [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p
style="text-align: justify;">Mi ero ripromesso al mio ritorno da Berlino di cominciare a svegliarmi presto, purtroppo tra dire e il fare c&#8217;è di mezzo qualsiasi cosa e il mio proposito è saltato ma oggi mi sono alzato alle 7 e ho potuto constatare come l&#8217;alzarmi presto mi ha consentito di gestire tutto con più calma, prepararmi tranquillamente, ritrovarmi alle 9 del mattino con molte incombenze già svolte; senza affanni e nervosismo, ho deciso perciò di condividere questa mia strategia con voi. Non vi preoccupate non vi voglio vendere nulla <img
src='http://www.fdicarlo.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt="icon wink Come svegliarsi presto al mattino" class='wp-smiley' title="Come svegliarsi presto al mattino" /> .<span
id="more-110"></span></p><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Come fare a svegliarsi presto?</h2><ul
style="text-align: justify;"><li>Non fare cambiamenti drastici. Iniziate lentamente, svegliandovi 15-30 minuti prima del normale. Fatelo per qualche giorno per abituarvici. Poi anticipate la sveglia di altri 15 minuti e così via fino al raggiungimento dell’obiettivo.</li><li>Andare a dormire prima la sera. Può darsi che siate abituati a stare alzati fino a tardi a guardare la TV o navigare in internet. Ma se portate avanti questa abitudine mentre cercate di abituarvi ad alzarvi presto al mattino, prima o dopo una delle due è destinata a fallire. E se è la sveglia presto a fallire, dovrete ricominciare tutto da capo. Io vi consiglio di andare a letto presto, anche se pensate di non riuscire ad addormentarvi, e leggere a letto. Se siete stanchi, vi addormenterete prima di quanto pensiate.</li><li>Mettere la sveglia lontana dal letto. Se è subito a fianco al letto, la spegnerete o premerete snooze. Mai premere snooze. Se è lontana dal letto, dovete alzarvi per spegnerla. Ora siete in piedi e non dovete fare altro che rimanerci.</li><li>Uscire dalla camera da letto appena spenta la sveglia. Non permettetevi di tornare a letto. Sforzatevi di uscire dalla camera. Sciacquati bene la faccia e presto sarai sveglio abbastanza per affrontare al meglio la giornata.</li><li>Non razionalizzare. Se permette alla mente di convincervi a tornare a letto, non ce la farete mai. Tornare a letto non è un’opzione contemplata.</li><li>Avere un buon motivo. Programmate qualcosa di importante da fare al mattino. Questo vi motiverà ad alzarvi.</li><li>Farlo sembrare una ricompensa. All’inizio potrà sembrarvi che vi stiate forzando a fare qualcosa di faticoso, ma se lo rendete piacevole, presto non potrete farne a meno. Una buona ricompensa per me è una bella tazza di caffé o tè e un buon libro. Oppure potrebbe essere una colazione speciale o guardare l’alba o meditare. Trovate qualcosa che sia piacevole per voi e fatelo come routine mattutina.</li><li>Sfruttare tutto il tempo che si ha in più. Non svegliatevi una o due ore prima solo per leggere il vostro blog, a meno che quello non sia un vostro obiettivo. Non svegliatevi prima per poi sprecare il tempo che avete in più. Partite in quarta! A me piace usare quel tempo per portarmi avanti con i miei obiettivi, programmare la giornata, fare esercizi, leggere.</li><li>La sera fare una cena leggera evitando caffè, cioccolata, bibite a base di cola e bevande alcoliche almeno tre ore prima di addormentarsi, evitare attività stimolanti nelle ore serali.</li></ul><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Quali sono i vantaggi?</h2><p
style="text-align: justify;">Ora, se siete creature della notte e vi va bene così, è perfetto. Non ci sono motivi per cambiare, specialmente se non vi pesa. Ma per me, passare dall’essere una creatura della notte a svegliarmi presto la mattina (è possibile ed in passato l&#8217;ho fatto) è stata una benedizione. Mi ha aiutato talmente tanto che non tornerei mai indietro. Ecco alcuni dei benefici che mi ha dato:</p><ul
style="text-align: justify;"><li>Dare il benvenuto alla giornata. Adoro alzarmi e dare il benvenuto ad una nuova meravigliosa giornata. Il mio consiglio è quello di crearsi dei rituali mattutini. Io mi sono ispirato al Dalai Lama che ha detto: “Ogni giorno, quando ti svegli pensa: oggi sono fortunato perché mi sono svegliato, sono vivo, ho una preziosa vita umana e non la sprecherò. Userò tutte le mie energie per migliorarmi, per aprire il mio cuore agli altri, avrò per gli altri parole gentili e non pensieri cattivi e non mi arrabbierò, ma cercherò di far più bene che posso”.</li><li>Una partenza meravigliosa. Prima iniziavo la mia giornata scaraventandomi giù dal letto all’ultimo minuto e correndo come un pazzo per prepararmi e arrivare all&#8217;università in ritardo. Ora, ho un rituale mattutino completamente nuovo, porto a termine un sacco di cose prima delle 8 avendo, alle spalle, parecchio vantaggio. Non c’è modo migliore di cominciare la giornata che svegliarsi presto, secondo me.</li><li>Quiete. Nessun bambino che urla o piange, nessuna palla da calcio, nessuna macchina, nessun brusio della televisione. Le ore del mattino presto sono davvero silenziose e tranquille. È il momento della giornata che preferisco. Apprezzo tantissimo questa quiete tutta mia, in cui posso pensare, leggere, respirare.</li><li>Alba. Chi si alza tardi si perde uno degli spettacoli più meravigliosi della natura, riproposto in 3D ogni singolo giorno: il sorgere del sole. Adoro vedere come il giorno si illumina lentamente, come il blu notte si schiarisce, le tonalità brillanti si diffondono nel cielo e la natura si veste di splendidi colori. Mi piace andare a correre all’alba e guardare il cielo e dire al mondo “Che splendida giornata”. Davvero. Lo faccio davvero. Sdolcinato, lo so.</li><li>Colazione. Svegliatevi presto e avrete tempo per fare un vera colazione. Come sanno tutti, è uno dei pasti più importanti della giornata. Senza colazione, il corpo perde energie fino a quando si è così affamati a pranzo che si mangia qualsiasi cosa anche poco salutare che capita sottomano. Più è grasso e zuccheroso, meglio è. Ma se fate colazione, sarete sazio per un po’. In più fare colazione leggendo un libro e bevendo un caffé nella quiete del mattino è decisamente più apprezzabile che ingurgitare qualcosa correndo al lavoro o seduti alla scrivania.</li><li>Esercizio. Ci sono altri momenti della giornata in cui esercitarsi, chiaramente, ma io ho scoperto che, nonostante sia bello fare esercizio appena tornati dal lavoro, è anche molto probabile non riuscirci per altri impegni che saltano fuori all’improvviso. Al mattino è pressoché impossibile che questo accada.</li><li>Produttività. Il mattino, almeno per me, è il momento più produttivo della giornata. Mi piace scrivere al mattino, quando non ci sono distrazioni, prima di controllare le mail o i siti di news. Quando inizio il mio lavoro al mattino porto a termine molto di più e alla sera non ho più lavoro e posso passare del tempo con la mia famiglia.</li><li>L’ora del goal. Avere un obiettivo? Sì, dovreste. E non c’è momento migliore del mattino per ricontrollare i vostri obiettivi e programmarli e portare a termine le varie tappe verso il loro raggiungimento. Dovreste avere un obiettivo che volete portare a termine ogni settimana. E ogni mattina dovreste decidere che cosa potete fare oggi per avvicinarvi al vostro goal. E poi, possibilmente, fate proprio quello come prima cosa al mattino.</li><li>Pendolare. A nessuno piacciono le ore di picco di traffico. Viaggiate al mattino presto e il traffico non è un problema, arrivate più in fretta a lavoro e risparmiate molto più tempo. O ancora meglio, andate a lavoro in bici. (O ancora meglio, lavorate da casa.)</li><li>Appuntamenti. È molto più semplice arrivare in orario agli appuntamenti del mattino se vi svegliate presto. Arrivare tardi a quegli appuntamenti è un brutto segno per le persone che dovete incontrare. Arrivando presto, li stupirete. E in più, avete tempo per prepararvi.</li></ul><p
style="text-align: justify;">Dunque, se vuoi provare ad alzarti presto al mattino (o quantomeno esercitare più controllo sulle tue abitudini di sonno) prova questa strategia: vai a letto solamente quando sei troppo stanco da tenerti in piedi e alzati ogni mattino ad un orario fisso. Prova per <a
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