**My Experience with Waking Up Early: A Journey of Self-Discovery**

I feel awake, I'm in a good mood, I never thought I would get here you guys, I am loving it. It is so peaceful and so quiet. I feel like I could do anything. Day three, day three is a good day. All right, so it is around 7:15 now little man is awake and we have a problem.

I again have hit a wall this is happened the past couple of days now where I start to feel like I'm waking up, I feel good, and then I cry. I feel really, really deeply tired. Good morning everyone, it is Thursday, 4:58, and I have a lot of updates for you guys today.

First update is that I tried a new technique where I set my alarm for 4:15 and I spent the first 15 minutes looking at my phone like leisurely getting out of bed. And it was a terrible, terrible idea. So if I've learned nothing else from this entire experiment, it's three words, and that is just get up, do not linger. It made it so much more painful waking up.

Thing number two which blew my mind is listening to an audiobook called "The One Thing" and it talks about how typically we think of successful people as people who are self-discipline, but that's not actually true. Successful people are people who have developed good habits, and you only need enough self-discipline to establish a habit. What does that have? It is established; it takes significantly less discipline to get it done. It becomes autopilot, so really all you need to do is get to the point of creating a habit, but creating a habit takes longer than we traditionally like to think.

The average time it takes to develop a habit is 66 days. So that just has a light bulb going off in my brain; it's not always gonna be this hard to wake up. It's only gonna be hard until I establish it as a habit, and for right now, I need to get to work desperately. Okay, by the way, to Anne, I have my coffee, and we're getting to work.

All right, I'm gonna good morning, it is 5:03 on my final day of my experiment. I have to say, I'm extremely proud of myself. I did not think I would make it this far, and I'm gonna share with you my best tips from going through this experience of what actually worked to help you if this is something you want to try.

What I've learned is that the focus really needs to be on going to bed earlier; that's 75% of the battle because if you get enough sleep, you need you'll naturally start to wake up earlier. It will be so much easier to get up. To help me fall asleep, I took one spray of a melatonin spray every night and rubbed magnesium oil on my feet; those are both just natural relaxants.

To actually fall asleep what I recommend doing is read or watch something very dense and a little bit boring for the mornings itself. My number one takeaway is just get up, do not look at your phone. Do not press news whatever you have to do to just get out of bed if you have to put your alarm on the other side of the room or out the door or in my case, have someone else physically wake me up for me personally.

Personally what I have found the most effective is to get ready first whether that means taking a shower or getting yourself put together because that gives me a little bit of ramped up time to wake up before I actually have to do anything. The most beneficial thing that I have done in this experiment is listening to something inspiring and uplifting to set me on the right path for my day.

Once the world wakes up, and you start your day, you are going to be inundated, so by taking that time to center yourself and motivate yourself makes so much difference. What was happening to me all week was I would feel tired, I would start to wake up, and then I would crash about three hours later. That's because I was not in the right mindset when I first woke up; I didn't feel like it.

But as the week went on, I started to develop an appetite earlier in the morning so I think it's extremely important for me at least to eat something substantive early on those calories are going to fuel your brain. It's very important after that, I recommend thinking about your one most important thing that you have to do for that day and focus on that; that will be a win for my day.

I have to say it feels really good. Better than I even expected to wake up early. You just feel proud of yourself. You feel accomplished. You feel on top of your life, by doing this so it is worth the energy I've made it this far. I've gotten through the hardest part, so I'm gonna continue doing it.

**The Power of Waking Up Early**

Waking up early can be a game-changer in terms of productivity and self-discovery. It's not just about waking up at a certain time; it's about creating a routine that sets you up for success. By following the tips outlined above, anyone can learn to wake up early and start their day on the right foot.

Remember, developing habits takes time and effort, but the rewards are well worth it. So, don't be discouraged if you don't see immediate results; keep pushing forward, and you'll eventually find your rhythm. With patience and persistence, you can unlock the power of waking up early and start achieving your goals.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome back to my channel so there are two types of people in this world mourning people and everyone else who wishes they were a morning person and every book I've read every article I've ever read about being successful and living your best life has one thing in common and that is waking up early and that's just something I've never been able to do I am the anti morning person and I thought having a child would change that it would force me to become a morning person nope it actually made it worse because I value my sleep that much more and voluntarily waking up even one minute before I absolutely had to be awake is something I have never done but that all changed this week I decided to undergo an experiment where I became an extreme morning person for the entire week so I woke up at 4:30 a.m. every day with the goal of figuring two things up one is how how to go to sleep earlier and how to wake up earlier what strategies and techniques actually work and two what what is the best things to do in the mornings to best improve my day and to make the most out of my morning it was quite a journey prepare yourself it is a roller coaster I just know terrible we are making progress only thing in the entire world I want to do is take a nap I never thought I would get here you guys we have run into a huge roadblock I think it is important that you see the entire progression of my week and learn with me in real time at the end of the video I will be sharing it my biggest tips and lessons learned so hopefully it will help all of you out there watching if you do enjoy this video this type of lifestyle experiment then let me know what other things you would like to see me try out in the future with all that said let's jump into our crazy week of becoming an extreme morning person so tomorrow is the big day do you think I can do it I think you can do it for one day so here's the thing you guys should know Ryan is actually an extreme warning person he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. every day do you have any tips for me what are your tips when the alarm goes off you have to get up there's no snooze buttons or anything you can't do this News button a night will be difficult for the first probably four to five days they'll be miserable and you can't take a nap can't take a nap can't take in there alright guys I'm doing my best it's for 43 I'm getting up this is already a terrible mistake and I regret it I just brush my teeth I want to put on a little bit of makeup now to wake up I'm doing this first because I'm so tired I'm trying to like wake myself up good morning everyone it is now 5:10 a.m. I have wasted about 30 minutes so let's recap the morning cos it's been quite eventful already so my alarm went off at 4:30 and I just fully ignored it I was not going to wake up I was like this is a terrible idea I'm gonna do a different video this week I didn't even hit snooze I just fully turned it off and went back to bed and then about five minutes later I was woken up by the loudest alarm so Ryan wakes up at 3:30 and he leaves the house at 4:30 and somehow he set off the alarm as soon as leaving the house didn't realize it so I had to wake up to deal with the alarm people and disabled it they ask you like a hundred questions so that woke me up and if not for that I would not be awake because I am NOT a morning person guys I feel terrible right now so my brilliant strategy was to put on a little bit of makeup first because I could sit there and kind of wake up but what I fail to realize is that this early in the morning it is pitch black outside and my room has almost no lights in it so I got ready basically in the dark which explains a lot here's the thing the reason I want to wake up this early is to hopefully accomplish things before Carter wakes up at around 7:00 but for today my first day I'm gonna take it easy my only wrote goal is to have coffee have breakfast get ready and maybe clean up fun fact I haven't never voluntarily been up at this hour in my life we're not doing anything fancy today I have my mouth taken instant freeze-dried coffee but let me tell you this stuff is good I'm so tired you know I feel like I'm a drunk like I'm not functioning I'm not even like trying to be dramatic right now I just feel terrible poor Bardo had to wake up early to I'm trying to sit here and drink my coffee in peace I'm looking through Instagram there's no content because it's so early I come across this ad on here look at this cleaner I mean I feel like I need this it's cleaning everything so no it's before 5:30 a.m. and I'm getting suckered into buying something that I don't need update I finished my coffee it is now almost 6:00 a.m. I've accomplished very little I'm still awake so it's small with now what I'm going to do is fold some laundry and clean up I'm just too early it is 509 a.m. I got ready first in the dark again and despite the fact that I went to bed earlier last night I think I fell asleep by about 10:45 which possibly the earliest I've been to sleep in years I feel worse and then again I slept through my alarm was not gonna get up and then Ryan on his way out the door came in and was like hey are you up okay it is 5:50 9 a.m. and what an expected benefit about being up at this hour is it's too early nobody has posted on social media so even if I want to waste my time on social media I can't cuz there is no material Irie without my grocery list and my to-do list so I have about an hour before Carter wakes up I'm thinking I'm gonna spend half an hour doing some work and then half an hour making my breakfast and Carter's breakfast or maybe I should do that first alright so I just spent the past several hours out at the zoo we went to the grocery store we've been running all around so that did not help my case of being extremely exhausted now that Carter's down for his nap the only thing in the entire world I want to do is take a nap so we're just gonna try and take a nap and see how it goes students good morning everyone it is 504 a.m. we're making progress I've also had two epiphanies today the first one is that in order to get out of bed at least for me I need help so Ryan actually checked in on me twice to make sure then I got up so thanks to you second thing I realized is a big one so as I was getting ready I was listening to this podcast which I highly highly recommend it's called Kalin's coffee talk and Kalin Nicholson as a youtuber she is one of my favorite youtubers her podcasts are kind of like life talks and has put me in a really good mental space right now and then it dawned on me I'm like maybe instead of focusing and obsessing over being productive in the mornings maybe I should take this time for myself to focus on centering my mind and getting in a good headspace for the day because I would argue that is more important than anything else we're doing it's so normalized that if we want to be healthy and fit you have to work on your fitness every day you have to workout you have to eat healthy it's a daily thing what about for our mental health don't we need to focus on that every day if we're just letting ourselves run on autopilot we're going back into our old habits I am NOT thinking that I want to spend at least a chunk of my morning's listening to something inspiring uplifting all right it isn't at 5:30 a.m. I had my coffee and I've had a breakthrough today today is a good day I feel awake I'm in a good mood I never thought I would get here you guys I am loving it it is so peaceful and so quiet I feel like I could do anything day three day three is a good day all right so it is around 7:15 now little man is awake and we have a problem I again have hit a wall this is happened the past couple of days now where I start to feel like I'm waking up I feel good and then I cry I feel really really deeply tired good morning everyone it is Thursday 4:58 and I have a lot of updates for you guys today first update is that I tried a new technique where I set my alarm for 4:15 and I spent the first 15 minutes looking at my phone like leisurely getting out of bed and it was a terrible terrible idea so if I've learned nothing else from this entire experiment it is three words and that is just get up do not linger it made it so much more painful waking up thing number two which blew my mind so i listening to an audiobook called the one thing and it talks about how typically we think of sick festival people as people who are self-discipline but that's not actually true successful people are people who have developed good habits and you only need enough self-discipline to establish a habit what does that have it is established it takes significantly less discipline to get it done it becomes autopilot so really all you need to do is get to the point of creating a habit but creating a habit takes longer than we traditionally like to think the average time it takes to develop a habit is 66 days so that just has a light bulb going off in my brain it's not always gonna be this hard to wake up it's only gonna be hard until I establish it as I have it about for right now I need to get to work desperately okay by the way to Anne I have my coffee and we're getting to work all right I'm gonna good morning it is 5:03 on my final day of my experiment I have to say I'm extremely proud of myself I did not think I would make it this far and I'm gonna share with you my best tips from going through this experience of what actually worked to help you if this is something you want to try what I've learned is the focus really needs to be on going to bed earlier that's 75% of the battle because if you get enough sleep you need you'll naturally start to wake up earlier and it will be so much easier to get up to help me fall asleep I took one spray of a melatonin spray every night I rubbed magnesium oil on my feet those are both just natural relaxants and to actually fall asleep what I recommend doing is read or watch something very dense and a little bit boring for the mornings itself my number one takeaway is just get up do not look at your phone do not press news whatever you have to do to just get out of bed if you have to put your alarm on the other side of the room or out the door or in my case have someone else physically wake me up for me personally what I have found the most effective is to get ready first whether that means taking a shower or getting yourself put together because that gives me a little bit of ramped up time to wake up before I actually have to do anything and the most beneficial thing that I have done in this experiment is listening to something inspiring and uplifting to set me on the right path for my day once the world wakes up and you start your day you are going to be inundated so by taking that time to center yourself and motivate yourself makes so much difference what was happening to me all week was I would feel tired I would start to wake up and then I would crash about three hours later and that's because I was not yang Anna when I first woke up because I didn't feel like it but as the week went on I started to develop an appetite earlier in the morning so I think it's extremely important for me at least to eat something substantive early on those calories are going to fuel your brain it's very important after that I recommend thinking about your one most important thing that you have to do for that day and focus on that and that will be a win for my day I have to say it feels really good better than I even expected to wake up early you just feel proud of yourself you feel accomplished you feel on top of your life by doing this so it is worth the energy I've made it this far I've gotten through the hardest part so I'm gonna continue doing it and trust me if I can do this literally anybody out there watching can do this I never ever thought I could even make it this long thank you as always so much for watching and I will see you soon with a new video byehello everyone and welcome back to my channel so there are two types of people in this world mourning people and everyone else who wishes they were a morning person and every book I've read every article I've ever read about being successful and living your best life has one thing in common and that is waking up early and that's just something I've never been able to do I am the anti morning person and I thought having a child would change that it would force me to become a morning person nope it actually made it worse because I value my sleep that much more and voluntarily waking up even one minute before I absolutely had to be awake is something I have never done but that all changed this week I decided to undergo an experiment where I became an extreme morning person for the entire week so I woke up at 4:30 a.m. every day with the goal of figuring two things up one is how how to go to sleep earlier and how to wake up earlier what strategies and techniques actually work and two what what is the best things to do in the mornings to best improve my day and to make the most out of my morning it was quite a journey prepare yourself it is a roller coaster I just know terrible we are making progress only thing in the entire world I want to do is take a nap I never thought I would get here you guys we have run into a huge roadblock I think it is important that you see the entire progression of my week and learn with me in real time at the end of the video I will be sharing it my biggest tips and lessons learned so hopefully it will help all of you out there watching if you do enjoy this video this type of lifestyle experiment then let me know what other things you would like to see me try out in the future with all that said let's jump into our crazy week of becoming an extreme morning person so tomorrow is the big day do you think I can do it I think you can do it for one day so here's the thing you guys should know Ryan is actually an extreme warning person he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. every day do you have any tips for me what are your tips when the alarm goes off you have to get up there's no snooze buttons or anything you can't do this News button a night will be difficult for the first probably four to five days they'll be miserable and you can't take a nap can't take a nap can't take in there alright guys I'm doing my best it's for 43 I'm getting up this is already a terrible mistake and I regret it I just brush my teeth I want to put on a little bit of makeup now to wake up I'm doing this first because I'm so tired I'm trying to like wake myself up good morning everyone it is now 5:10 a.m. I have wasted about 30 minutes so let's recap the morning cos it's been quite eventful already so my alarm went off at 4:30 and I just fully ignored it I was not going to wake up I was like this is a terrible idea I'm gonna do a different video this week I didn't even hit snooze I just fully turned it off and went back to bed and then about five minutes later I was woken up by the loudest alarm so Ryan wakes up at 3:30 and he leaves the house at 4:30 and somehow he set off the alarm as soon as leaving the house didn't realize it so I had to wake up to deal with the alarm people and disabled it they ask you like a hundred questions so that woke me up and if not for that I would not be awake because I am NOT a morning person guys I feel terrible right now so my brilliant strategy was to put on a little bit of makeup first because I could sit there and kind of wake up but what I fail to realize is that this early in the morning it is pitch black outside and my room has almost no lights in it so I got ready basically in the dark which explains a lot here's the thing the reason I want to wake up this early is to hopefully accomplish things before Carter wakes up at around 7:00 but for today my first day I'm gonna take it easy my only wrote goal is to have coffee have breakfast get ready and maybe clean up fun fact I haven't never voluntarily been up at this hour in my life we're not doing anything fancy today I have my mouth taken instant freeze-dried coffee but let me tell you this stuff is good I'm so tired you know I feel like I'm a drunk like I'm not functioning I'm not even like trying to be dramatic right now I just feel terrible poor Bardo had to wake up early to I'm trying to sit here and drink my coffee in peace I'm looking through Instagram there's no content because it's so early I come across this ad on here look at this cleaner I mean I feel like I need this it's cleaning everything so no it's before 5:30 a.m. and I'm getting suckered into buying something that I don't need update I finished my coffee it is now almost 6:00 a.m. I've accomplished very little I'm still awake so it's small with now what I'm going to do is fold some laundry and clean up I'm just too early it is 509 a.m. I got ready first in the dark again and despite the fact that I went to bed earlier last night I think I fell asleep by about 10:45 which possibly the earliest I've been to sleep in years I feel worse and then again I slept through my alarm was not gonna get up and then Ryan on his way out the door came in and was like hey are you up okay it is 5:50 9 a.m. and what an expected benefit about being up at this hour is it's too early nobody has posted on social media so even if I want to waste my time on social media I can't cuz there is no material Irie without my grocery list and my to-do list so I have about an hour before Carter wakes up I'm thinking I'm gonna spend half an hour doing some work and then half an hour making my breakfast and Carter's breakfast or maybe I should do that first alright so I just spent the past several hours out at the zoo we went to the grocery store we've been running all around so that did not help my case of being extremely exhausted now that Carter's down for his nap the only thing in the entire world I want to do is take a nap so we're just gonna try and take a nap and see how it goes students good morning everyone it is 504 a.m. we're making progress I've also had two epiphanies today the first one is that in order to get out of bed at least for me I need help so Ryan actually checked in on me twice to make sure then I got up so thanks to you second thing I realized is a big one so as I was getting ready I was listening to this podcast which I highly highly recommend it's called Kalin's coffee talk and Kalin Nicholson as a youtuber she is one of my favorite youtubers her podcasts are kind of like life talks and has put me in a really good mental space right now and then it dawned on me I'm like maybe instead of focusing and obsessing over being productive in the mornings maybe I should take this time for myself to focus on centering my mind and getting in a good headspace for the day because I would argue that is more important than anything else we're doing it's so normalized that if we want to be healthy and fit you have to work on your fitness every day you have to workout you have to eat healthy it's a daily thing what about for our mental health don't we need to focus on that every day if we're just letting ourselves run on autopilot we're going back into our old habits I am NOT thinking that I want to spend at least a chunk of my morning's listening to something inspiring uplifting all right it isn't at 5:30 a.m. I had my coffee and I've had a breakthrough today today is a good day I feel awake I'm in a good mood I never thought I would get here you guys I am loving it it is so peaceful and so quiet I feel like I could do anything day three day three is a good day all right so it is around 7:15 now little man is awake and we have a problem I again have hit a wall this is happened the past couple of days now where I start to feel like I'm waking up I feel good and then I cry I feel really really deeply tired good morning everyone it is Thursday 4:58 and I have a lot of updates for you guys today first update is that I tried a new technique where I set my alarm for 4:15 and I spent the first 15 minutes looking at my phone like leisurely getting out of bed and it was a terrible terrible idea so if I've learned nothing else from this entire experiment it is three words and that is just get up do not linger it made it so much more painful waking up thing number two which blew my mind so i listening to an audiobook called the one thing and it talks about how typically we think of sick festival people as people who are self-discipline but that's not actually true successful people are people who have developed good habits and you only need enough self-discipline to establish a habit what does that have it is established it takes significantly less discipline to get it done it becomes autopilot so really all you need to do is get to the point of creating a habit but creating a habit takes longer than we traditionally like to think the average time it takes to develop a habit is 66 days so that just has a light bulb going off in my brain it's not always gonna be this hard to wake up it's only gonna be hard until I establish it as I have it about for right now I need to get to work desperately okay by the way to Anne I have my coffee and we're getting to work all right I'm gonna good morning it is 5:03 on my final day of my experiment I have to say I'm extremely proud of myself I did not think I would make it this far and I'm gonna share with you my best tips from going through this experience of what actually worked to help you if this is something you want to try what I've learned is the focus really needs to be on going to bed earlier that's 75% of the battle because if you get enough sleep you need you'll naturally start to wake up earlier and it will be so much easier to get up to help me fall asleep I took one spray of a melatonin spray every night I rubbed magnesium oil on my feet those are both just natural relaxants and to actually fall asleep what I recommend doing is read or watch something very dense and a little bit boring for the mornings itself my number one takeaway is just get up do not look at your phone do not press news whatever you have to do to just get out of bed if you have to put your alarm on the other side of the room or out the door or in my case have someone else physically wake me up for me personally what I have found the most effective is to get ready first whether that means taking a shower or getting yourself put together because that gives me a little bit of ramped up time to wake up before I actually have to do anything and the most beneficial thing that I have done in this experiment is listening to something inspiring and uplifting to set me on the right path for my day once the world wakes up and you start your day you are going to be inundated so by taking that time to center yourself and motivate yourself makes so much difference what was happening to me all week was I would feel tired I would start to wake up and then I would crash about three hours later and that's because I was not yang Anna when I first woke up because I didn't feel like it but as the week went on I started to develop an appetite earlier in the morning so I think it's extremely important for me at least to eat something substantive early on those calories are going to fuel your brain it's very important after that I recommend thinking about your one most important thing that you have to do for that day and focus on that and that will be a win for my day I have to say it feels really good better than I even expected to wake up early you just feel proud of yourself you feel accomplished you feel on top of your life by doing this so it is worth the energy I've made it this far I've gotten through the hardest part so I'm gonna continue doing it and trust me if I can do this literally anybody out there watching can do this I never ever thought I could even make it this long thank you as always so much for watching and I will see you soon with a new video bye\n"