The 5am Club - Worth it?

[Raoul Duke]

I wake up at 3 am. You're slacking.

 

[RazorCut]

I just did a search on your contribution to the forum. In every thread you are self promoting. Putting links to your YouTube channel, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook:


INTRO - Press Start With ME (Mark)

What are your thoughts on Bucket Lists?

"Please read my Intro on the FLF:
INTRO - Press Start With ME (Mark)

Twitter: @FoboMark
Instagram: @PressStartWithMark
Facebook: Press Start With Mark
YouTube: PressStartWithMark"




Have a read of this:

IMPORTANT! - Getting the MOST out of Fastlane (Required Read)

Section 4 should interest you:

#4: NO GURU BS PLEASE!
Are you here because you're interested in using the forum to build your list, hot prospect, and enlargen your sales funnel? Word of caution: THIS BEHAVIOR does not work here and you will be CALLED-OUT on it, or worse, exposed as a charlatan. If your participation at the forum is conditional upon you selling, backlinking, or hot-prospecting the forum users, it WILL NOT END well.

You have only been here a short while. Please don't assume that you are smarter than the rest of us. Lex was amused as he knew what your post would lead to.

You have a perfect opportunity here to hold your hands up and say "fair play, I'll tone down the self promotion". Or, you can continue as you have so far. It's a learning experience for you either way.

 

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[RazorCut]

Well the aim is to exchange with people on here, you must have a lot of time to waste to leave comments like this. Move on buddy!

Actually your aim looked more like self promotion to me which was why I didn't comment when I first seen your thread.

Telling a long serving and well respected member of this community to "Move on buddy" is rather short sighted in my opinion. You could call that mistake #2.

lol...I see this going over well.

See? He's already right.

 

[Lex DeVille]

Wanna share more??

No. Just making a statement based on what usually happens when new people show up and start making shallow posts with video links to drive traffic to their channel.

 

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[The-J]

5am club is lame.

Join the 4am club.

...

All joking aside, waking up early has changed only one thing, and that's my attitude about the day. If I wake up early, then I have chosen to wake up. I've chosen life. I've chosen to face whatever may be waiting for me. I've chosen to get my a$$ to work.

Also the time doesn't matter, the point is waking up several hours before your first 'obligation'. Most people wake up like 30 minutes before they go to work or have their first call. That means you're waking up for someone else.

Think 'pay yourself first', but with time. You, like me, might owe time to someone else. But when you wake up early, the time you take from the morning is 100% yours, tax-free. Isn't that powerful?

 

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[Lex DeVille]

lol...I see this going over well.

 

[RazorCut]

Mark, if I haven't already welcomed you to the forum please let me say welcome now.

I can see you are ambitious and a fast learner, with a good head on your shoulders. You also have shown humility. You'll do well.

As for the 5am start I have been practising it for over 3 years. However due to family circumstances I've struggled with it for the last month. Slowly getting back on track.

Normally:

5am Wake up, Bathroom, Meditation, Coffee, Journal, Start Work at 5:30.

My intention this year is to get my latest business founded and be done with my working day by 9am. You can call it semi-retirement.

 

[Lex DeVille]

I wake up at 2. Gives me time to produce videos, work on client copy, meditate, for several hours before anyone else wakes up. Also time to check if there's anything new worth reading on the forum. 5 am is too late for me. It would feel like half the day was wasted.

 

[business_man]

Hey I agree with B.Cole
This "Wake Up Early" trend feels a bit artificial.

Depends on what my team is doing, where my clients is and a lot of factors. Discipline is important, whatever you wake up at 5 or 9 or 11.

I don't think your success is measured by the time you wake up, but by the things you do.

Most importantly, don't forget to have a sleep, otherwise, productivity drops significantly

 

[Lex DeVille]

Ok now I m confused and dont know if you are sarcastic haha.. what time do you go to bed? How many hours of sleep do you need to go through your day without any issue?

6 hours of sleep. I go to bed by 8. Usually I stop working by 3-4pm because my mind gets too foggy. Nothing going on after 8pm in my house. Waking at 2 is automatic. Anything less than 6 hours and I'm too foggy to be productive.

 

[B. Cole]

More importantly than what time you woke up...

How much sh*t did you get done today? And did sleeping in negatively impact communication windows with people who can’t get ahold of you.

China is 13 hours ahead of me, they begin their work day when it’s 7pm here. I have been up all night going back and forth with them on material specs, but also needed to make some calls in the morning to US manufacturers with the info I got from China the night before.

Getting up early every day shows discipline, but keeping your business going, regardless of time is more important to me. Being up early doesn’t magically make things happen. You make things happen.

Generally I’m up sometime between 4 and 6. By 5 I’m rolling around restless, even if I went to bed at 2.

 

[PizzaOnTheRoof]

Doesn’t matter what time you wake up.

What matters is how much you get done during the day.

I’d rather wake up at 9am, bang out 3 hours of deeeep work than wake up at 5am and bullshit the extra 4 hours.

 

[guaava23]

After 3 months of a 5am wake up time, I have some observations and comments.
- First, my productivity has been way higher than before. I used to waste a few hours at night since I was sapped of energy after I finished my workday. Doing any work on my side business was not as productive. I’m a lot fresher and can think and plan a lot more in silence and relaxed starting at 5am.
- I read the ‘Morning Miracle’ as part of the morning routine which was inconsistent at first (just tried to wake up earlier to get more done as an experiment) And it helped put things in prospective.
- I’ve read 7 books in the past 3 months. More than all of last year.
- I sleep incredibly deep, and I am very refreshed when I wake up. I am very tired by 8 or 9 and mostly in bed by 9 or 9:30.
- I wake up at 5am every day no matter what. Even weekends. If I want more rest on the weekends, I take a nap.
- I don’t have a set wake up routine but I start with reading for 30 min or more, usually meditate after for 10 min, and then I write in my journal whatever is on my mind to get everything out, then write out what I am grateful for in life, which puts things in prospective for me. I then plan my day with 3 main things I want to accomplish and the action steps to complete them. Finally I work out or play tennis. The workout is what really gets me going for the day.

I didn’t think I would like getting up so early, but I do love it now. It is nice to be up 2 hours before anyone, and having 4 hours before my job has been a good way to feel more in control. I’ll take some time for goals and read longer at times. I also try to move and stretch a bit the first hour to get my mind and body more awake.

 

[Thinh]

For my part, I'm wary of the "one fits all" solution. Waking up at 5am isn't some magic pill that will revolutionize everyone's life.

There have to be real, practical reasons for waking up at 5am. You cite some of them, like having a side project you want to dedicate time too but don't have enough time in the "regular" day.

We must keep in mind that Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, etc. they're not them because they wake up at 5am. They wake up at 5 am because they are them.

 

[Kak]

I wake up about 7-7:30... Naturally. I usually get a full 8 hours.

I don't need to be up at 5. I don't need to sleep 2 hours a night. I don't need to squeeze 30 hours into a day. I don't need an alarm clock.

For those of you that DO wake up at 4-5 am and CRUSH "IT" a billion hours a week... I have a question for you: What is work?

 

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[Guest921Y]

Some of my friends are huge fans of the 5 am club. I used to be a night warrior but with the kids getting older, staying up later (and sleeping later!), I’ve slowly shifted to being a morning person. It’s a bit tough. The coffee, etc doesn’t kick in for a bit but just gotta bust through it!

Best thing for me is to do yoga when I wake up. Brings so much energy into my body.

 

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[Apo]

I just did a search on your contribution to the forum. In every thread you are self promoting. Putting links to your YouTube channel, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook:


INTRO - Press Start With ME (Mark)

What are your thoughts on Bucket Lists?

"Please read my Intro on the FLF:
INTRO - Press Start With ME (Mark)

Twitter: @FoboMark
Instagram: @PressStartWithMark
Facebook: Press Start With Mark
YouTube: PressStartWithMark"




Have a read of this:

IMPORTANT! - Getting the MOST out of Fastlane (Required Read)

Section 4 should interest you:

#4: NO GURU BS PLEASE!
Are you here because you're interested in using the forum to build your list, hot prospect, and enlargen your sales funnel? Word of caution: THIS BEHAVIOR does not work here and you will be CALLED-OUT on it, or worse, exposed as a charlatan. If your participation at the forum is conditional upon you selling, backlinking, or hot-prospecting the forum users, it WILL NOT END well.

You have only been here a short while. Please don't assume that you are smarter than the rest of us. Lex was amused as he knew what your post would lead to.

You have a perfect opportunity here to hold your hands up and say "far play, I'll tone down the self promotion". Or, you can continue as you have so far. It's a learning experience for you either way.

You re right I don't want to be seen as one of these "guru" as I am not one. Now I am not selling anything and do that as a hobby and to create discussions. I joined 2 weeks ago and want to become more proactive here as I think there is a great community here.
I take your comment on board but please see my videos as conversation starters more than self promotion since I am genuinely interested in chatting on these topics and knowing what people think and experienced.

Now that you told me off and had a fair comment about this post, would you mind telling me about your experience on the topic?

 

[JAJT]

I wake up at 6am every day even though I don't actually have to be up until 7am.

Here's what I found:

- I don't journal
- I don't meditate
- I don't exercise
- I don't plan my day
- I don't do my most important work

I mean, those DO happen occasionally, especially when I'm really excited about something new or just on a general "high note" during the year for whatever reason, but it has never been consistent.

What HAS been consistent though is this:

- I'm alert and awake and ready before my responsibilities start
- I'm not scrambling to "beat the clock" on the morning countdown
- I get dedicated, quiet downtime that allows me to enjoy a coffee and wake up peacefully
- I can and actually do read. Really depends on where my "grogginess meter" is that morning though

So when I don't wake up early, I scramble and get pissed off and irritated easily and feel under a crashing wave to get everything done on time.

When I do wake up early I'm 100% on the ball when "go time" happens.

It's the difference between hearing an alarm clock and treating it like a starting shot to a race, and being told that a race is starting in an hour. It's the same race but being on your marks and set before that shot goes off is so crucial to my well-being.

 

[TonyStark]

It’s 5am right now and I’m wake... wait, was I supposed to go to sleep?

 

[Apo]

Actually your aim looked more like self promotion to me which was why I didn't comment when I first seen your thread.

Telling a long serving and well respected member of this community to "Move on buddy" is rather short sighted in my opinion. You could call that mistake #2.



See? He's already right.

What about being constructive instead of hating? I do videos and want to chat with like minded people to exchange on topics I address but also hear about people's opinion, tips and criticism. I had some nice chat with people adding value met on here which I find great.

It is a forum after all...

And if a well respected member cannot add value and only "hate", he doesn't get my respect.

There are 2 options here:
1) Keep on posting your value less comments everytime I post and waste everyone's time
2) Give me constructive feedbacks and share your experience which is interesting for me and others reading this thread

I am sure after so many years on here you guys have exciting lives and great tips to share on the topics I address.

 

[Thinh]

I feel like giving him the benefit of the doubt, he looks like a nice guy

Although, @Mark Fobo , I understand the reaction of @RazorCut and @Lex DeVille , your post is at least "clumsy".

Posting a video and then asking "do you do the same / what are your observation on this?" doesn't make you sound really interested in what we have to say. It sounds more like a question thrown there just to make your post not look like self promotion, justly.

Be more specific. What do you really want to know? Are you worried you do that for nothing? Do you need encouragement? Are you looking for ways to use your morning time better?

 

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[Kyle T]

I've tried the early mornings and was never able to make it stick.

Recently, I gave up on being an early morning person and shifted my focus to the schedule of least resistance.

So for the last month, I have been waking up at 8 am and I stay up working late nights until 12 or 1. It's working well for me.

IMO the time you get up doesn't mean as much as people make it out to be. All that matters is how productive you are with the hours that you are awake.

 

[Surf16]

wake up at 5am while going to bed much earlier in the evening.

I wake up between 4:30 -5am everyday and go to the gym. Get back around 6:30am and get my son off to school by 7:35 and back in my home office by 8:10am.

Then I have the rest of my day to work and focus.

The gym is my coffee. I do not drink caffeine so without the gym to get the blood flowing I feel off.

Even on vacation I am up at the crack of dawn. I do some exercises with resistance bands and what not then off for a surf.

With all that said I put my son to bed around 7-7:30pm and start unwinding myself by 8. I will usually read or entertain the wife and then be asleep by 9:30pm.

It works for me and I love it.

I love being up and moving around when most people are sleeping.

 

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[rogue synthetic]

Any hours I'm awake before about 11am-12pm are golden. I'm most focused and alert during these times.

I have a second wind from around 8pm until bed. Less alert but more associative -- good time to have creative thoughts, unsconscious "aha!" insights, that kind of thing.

In summer months it's easier to be up from 5-6am. In the winter, I'm lucky if I'm out of bed at 7:30.

I don't worry about it too much otherwise.

 

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[Apo]

Mark, if I haven't already welcomed you to the forum please let me say welcome now.

I can see you are ambitious and a fast learner, with a good head on your shoulders. You also have shown humility. You'll do well.

As for the 5am start I have been practising it for over 3 years. However due to family circumstances I've struggled with it for the last month. Slowly getting back on track.

Normally:

5am Wake up, Bathroom, Meditation, Coffee, Journal, Start Work at 5:30.

My intention this year is to get my latest business founded and be done with my working day by 9am. You can call it semi-retirement.

Thanks, I promise I will improve.

Ok so pretty busy too as soon as you wake up. Are you struggling with your sleep doing so, I am working in finance and have long hours so going to bed at 10 can be challenging sometimes. What is your routine in the evening? It sounds like you have a family (children?) I guess it adds another difficulty to the task..?

 

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[RazorCut]

Are you struggling with your sleep doing so, I am working in finance and have long hours so going to bed at 10 can be challenging sometimes. What is your routine in the evening?

I usually hit the gym around 3-4pm. Get home, have my OMAD meal then chill till 10pm then bed. I'm just experimenting with going to the gym between 10am and midday then coming back to do work till 5:30 / 6pm. Will try that for a couple of weeks to see if it makes any difference to my productivity.

 

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[rwhyan]

Waking up early is one of the best lifestyle changes I’ve made. But it might not be for everyone.

I discovered that I am more productive in the morning so I started waking up at 4:00-4:30am.

I’ve always been a morning person too.

But some people are more productive at night.

One benefit of waking up early is that you have a block of time that will never get interrupted. Nobody will schedule a meeting at 6am. Most jobs start at 8 or 9.

You will always have this time in the morning to use as you’d like (exercising, working on your business, reading, whatever you’d like)

 

[100ToOne]

Early to rise
Late to bed

is the motto

I disagree big time.
Sleep is so important that you need to know how many hours does your body need and fulfil that need. There are exceptions but I mean your general life should be balanced.

 

[biophase]

You re right I don't want to be seen as one of these "guru" as I am not one. Now I am not selling anything and do that as a hobby and to create discussions. I joined 2 weeks ago and want to become more proactive here as I think there is a great community here.
I take your comment on board but please see my videos as conversation starters more than self promotion since I am genuinely interested in chatting on these topics and knowing what people think and experienced.

Now that you told me off and had a fair comment about this post, would you mind telling me about your experience on the topic?

Why can't I play the video embedded? Why must I watch it on youtube?

 

[Ecom man]

So assuming this isn’t just a post to promote your YouTube video I supposed my question to you is... why?

Why do you want to know what other people are doing? Why do you want to poll and ask people what time they get up? Why does it matter to you?

We are all individuals so what works for one won’t work for someone else. For years when I had to be at work at 7am I would get up at 6am. Now I get up at 8-9am. Has it changed what work I get done? Nope. Has it changed my motivation for the day? Again, nope.

So I was obviously closer to be a millionaire or a “great” entrepreneur when I got up earlier... right?

Some people feel like they get nothing done if they sleep in. We are all on our own journey and everyone’s body and life is different.

So again... why does it matter?