I am doing the ‘work from 4–6am’ method right now.
For a few days (27th January 2018), I’ve set my alarm to 4 AM every morning. I got really inspired by those two articles:
You should definitely read them!
What I got from them (these are kind of my own words) is that I better wake up early, do what I want to do without anybody disturbing me for 2–3 hours and then to start my ~normal~ morning routine (take a shower, dress up, drive to work) than when I do the things I love in the evening.
In the morning I’m completely clear in the brain and got the highest energy level I can have. Also, what you do in the morning influences what you do that day — if you’re learning in the morning, you probably feel smarter (and actually are) the whole day, or you make an important decision that morning and you feel great and got no problems making other ones in the afternoon.
I normally wake up at 6 AM, with going to sleep at ~11 PM. This gives me roughly 7 hours of sleep, which is my personal goal. But when waking up at 4 AM, I need to go asleep at ~9 PM..wow, that sucks. For the most days, I actually felt like I got way LESS time because I was 1–2 hours at home and then I go to sleep. That feels like nothing.
But what about the 2 hours of time I additionally have in the morning?
The first morning was actually the greatest. I woke up to the alarm, immediately was fully clear in my mind and started reading interesting articles on medium.com, read my book and some stuff I can’t remember. At 5 AM, I thought “wow, I got so much time until 6 AM, what am I going to do with this time?!”. It was really great, and I felt great the whole day. I wish every day would be like that.
Unfortunately, it isn’t. Since then, I wasn’t able to wake up that early — although I was going to sleep at 8–9 PM. This right now gives my kinda hard days — I am waking up at 4 AM, but then doing nothing until 6 AM (productive time wasted AND sleep time wasted), and then I go to bed at 9 AM. So I got 4 fewer hours a day than normally — great.
But I am still sticking to this. Why? Because I believe that this strategy has true potential that I need to unlock. If I was able to do it once, I am able to it every time. My body probably just has to get used to this.
What do you think? Are you trying it? If so, what got YOU inspired?
