Posted on 12/07/2022 2:32:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
If the idea of waking up at 5am for productivity makes you want to roll over and hit snooze until Saturday, don’t fret, says HR expert Adrian Tan.
When the circuit breaker was tripped in 2020, my kids were doing home-based learning every day.
Because I had to provide on-site tech support to three demanding users throughout the day, I couldn’t begin any serious work until late in the afternoon. I thought rising early to avoid that distraction could be the productivity hack I needed.
Inspired by retired US Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink's – who posts daily photos of his watch at 4.30am before his morning workout – I roused at 4.30am, had a quick shower, then went for a morning run. All this before the sun had risen.
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My day starts at three...
I used to be on that schedule.
Jocko Willink is borderline insane, and scary.
I have zero desire to be a workaholic like many.
Addiction to stress is real, and ends with an early grave typically.
It matters significantly on what one’s job is, but so many hours are BS in many positions.
Teams meetings about future Teams meetings.
HR nonsense.
Diversity nonsense.
etc.
If not interrupted with said BS, I could do my job with 4 - 5 hour shifts.
An aside - I hate the saying “life hack” and I want all TED talk people to die...
I can’t sleep past that. Rural life I guess.
My day starts at 3 and I’m retired.
The early bird gets the worm... lol
I’m up at 5am so I can get a shower, breakfast, brush my teeth, pack my lunch, and get to my first stop by 7am. And I don’t kids to make sure get to school.
It’s a GREAT nights sleep when I can sleep as late as 5:00AM.
That’s too close to a “life hack” saying...
I’ll be watching you. :)
Yes, I am semiretired myself. I have just been up and working by three every morning all my life.
5am is a good time for reps.
My wife and I are evening people. She was getting a hard time from some friends when she said how she had to get up “early” at 8 am.
Coming to her defense “Well - she was at the elderly neighbor’s until 1:15 am helping him with his oxygen, and 12:30 the night before that.”
Psalm 127:2.
I can’t sleep past five no matter when I go to bed.
Uncle Sam’s boys club did that to me.
5.56mm
I heard a researcher who said different people have different natural sleep schedules.
“Dawn, when men of reason go to bed.”
Ambrose Pierce
Let me share a story... Back during Carter there was no work, it was extremely hard to get a job in the small town I was in. But I never had a problem like everyone else did. All the business owners in town met for breakfast at a certain restaurant at 5 Am on their way to open up for the day. When I was out of work I would go there and have coffee. While there I would rub shoulders and joke with all these business owners. Was never out of work more than about three days before one of these “new friends” who owned businesses would give me a job...
Why? Because they knew I was obviously an early bird and ready to go to work early like they were. :)
At my age it’s a fact of life.
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