The common factor in all of those failed stories was trying to do too much at once. But I’ve also read twice as many comments from people that have failed to make their habit changes stick. I’ve read hundreds of letters from people that have successfully changed their routines. In my Turbulence Training fitness business, we’ve held over 25 before-and-after weight loss transformation contests. I’ve been around the block in this world of habit change. You simply need to get up fifteen minutes earlier, not three hours earlier. Let me tell you the real secret to taking advantage of your magic time in the morning. (You can read my success tips for night owls here.)įorget about forcing a 5 a.m. Worse, twenty percent of the population has a biological clock that makes them most effective late at night. And then they’ll return to sleeping as late as humanly possible each morning before they have to get up in order to make it to work. They’ll suffer from self-imposed jet lag, and because of the consequences, they’ll come to despise waking up early.
I cringe when people write about how they went, literally overnight, from getting up at 8 a.m. I just don’t believe you need to get up at 5 a.m.įrankly, that’s not reasonable. While it’s true that the morning is magic, and that getting up earlier is the easiest way to get ahead in life, I don’t believe you need to get up as early as 5 a.m. You might be surprised to hear that, coming from a man who wakes up at 4 a.m.
I also believe the morning is magical for not only productivity but also creativity. He’s right about this time having the least interruptions. They have the least interruptions,” says best-selling author Robin Sharma. Inspired by a book about waking early, the idea is that you have to get out of bed every day at five in the morning. People are making their wake-up time into a competition and boasting match.
Recently, social media has taken a bizarre turn into our daily routines. Before social media became a popular way to catalog our lives, “Keeping Up With the Joneses” simply meant trying to one-up your neighbor with the size of your house or model of your car.īut Facebook and its ilk, combined with a perverse new competitive mindset, has turned everything in life into an “I’m better than you” conversation.
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