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Commentary: Is waking up at 5am a productivity hack or fad?
Channel News Asia ^ | 08 Dec 2022 | Adrian Tan

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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To: 21twelve
"My wife and I are evening people."

I am too. I tell people I'm not one of those senior citizens who goes to bed at 8 p.m, and gets up at the crack of dawn. I'm usually going to bed when retired friends of mine are getting up.

61 posted on 12/07/2022 4:22:58 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: EEGator
"I still have no clue how you did that job. I would have sold drugs or lived in the woods first... :)"

LOL! The convicts were easy. You just locked them up if they misbehaved, but you couldn't do that with the incompetent Lieutenants, Captains or Administrators, especially the political appointees who'd never worked a day in uniform in a prison.

62 posted on 12/07/2022 4:31:10 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: nickcarraway
Waking up is an occupational selective.

Farmers have critters, and large expanses of land that require or demand time outside of a 9-5 office gig.

Young people have excitement and energy that allows them a hectic life cycle which includes, all too often, self destructive activities that they miraculously spring back from . . . . until they're no longer young people.

What one has to do and the time they have to do it is the deciding factor.

I just got off the 'phone with my son in Florida who is now, and for as long as he and his partner stay awake . . trimming out new houses.

He loves the work and because the houses are empty, they can work whenever and for however long they want. He said it looks like a 2 or 3 AM "day"

63 posted on 12/07/2022 4:31:53 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: nickcarraway

I set the alarm for 5:01 am (I always give myself that one extra minute) 30 years ago. That’s the start of my work day.


64 posted on 12/07/2022 4:36:01 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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As a dialysis nurse I function best waking at 2 AM for the 3:30 clinic opening. I found my deepest sleep rhythm had not yet occurred after 4 or 5 hours asleep, yet I awoke easily and functioned very well until the 3 PM closing time. I took great pride in running full steam between 4 am and 9 am, which before were toxic hours for me.

One thing that helped was getting up at 2 AM to drink coffee, take meds, and eat peanut butter. I went back to bed for about 45 minutes which satisfied my lifetime psychological need to “go back to bed”.

Even if I only got 3 or 4 hours of sleep, I still functioned well and was able to make up for it the following evening. Going to bed between 6 PM and 9 PM after those exhausting days is heaven.

Getting up in the 5 am to 7 am timeframe has always been torture. I told my family I would do the entire night shifts as a caregiver as long as someone covered me at sunrise. Something about sunrise induced sleep.

Try a wakeup time WAY off normal, I now seek early morning clinic starts at work.


65 posted on 12/07/2022 4:46:42 PM PST by F450-V10
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To: nickcarraway

5 Am to 7 Am was my wife’s golden time to get our sons and her office in line mentally and for the next day.

I prefer to slowly wake up from 7 am to 8 am.

It took about 10 years of retirement for my wife to realize this reality, 7 am to 8 am is really a gift from heaven.

Don’t waste this gift by doing things that can done later in the day.


66 posted on 12/07/2022 5:38:13 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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To: maddog55
I like the sunrise too. So much so that I'm upset that I miss it when I do get up a little late (say 6am). This time of year, I get up in pitch darkness, make breakfast, drive my car to the train station and watch the sunrise from the Metro North as I head into Manhattan.

Even on weekends, 6am is about the latest I will ever sleep.

67 posted on 12/07/2022 5:44:49 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,692,256 | Truth Social | 87,850,338 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: nickcarraway

It all depends on the person. I HATE mornings. Alarm clocks were invented by Satan himself.


68 posted on 12/07/2022 5:53:33 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Openurmind

Because they keep waking you up to check your dang BP.


69 posted on 12/07/2022 5:58:56 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Openurmind

“Early bird gets the Worm= but “the second Mouse gets the Cheese”.


70 posted on 12/07/2022 6:12:45 PM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: Valpal1

Taking blood, changing bags, “How are you doing?”, lights on, all kinds of stuff 24-7.

And they are loud. She said that one night they were bored and pushing each other around having wheeled office chair races around the nurse’s station... And the night shift “cooler talk” is vulgar as hell. They loudly share WAY too much about the institution they work in all night long.


71 posted on 12/07/2022 6:20:04 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: nickcarraway

Back when I was a kid ... sleep tight ten hours tonight was a common recommendation. A few years later I was a Marine recruit at Parris Island, SC. Reville was at 5AM ... lights out at 10PM. If your platoon was assigned guard duty you had that sleep pattern interrupted with a two-hour watch. Our DI’s pounced on that sleep deprivation the following day making our already miserable lives even more miserable.


72 posted on 12/07/2022 6:29:05 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: DainBramage

My dad retired from the Army in 1963. My whole life he and my mom were up at 2:30 every morning and in bed by 7 at night. They drank at least a pot of coffee every hour during the day.

I’m up at 4 every morning but only drink to cups of coffee for the day.

I get my family up at 6. Those first 2 hours are my time away from them and any of their problems.


73 posted on 12/07/2022 6:31:30 PM PST by shotgun
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To: packagingguy

I’m an early morning person and have been my whole life. My brother is an extreme night owl and has been his whole life.

Since my folks were early risers, 2:30 am, dad couldn’t wait to get me up at 4 and I was always ready to go. My brother would be just falling asleep.


74 posted on 12/07/2022 6:41:12 PM PST by shotgun
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To: EEGator

+ 1 million billion trillion to your last sentence.


75 posted on 12/07/2022 6:55:02 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: Hardastarboard

:)


76 posted on 12/07/2022 7:00:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: noiseman

Some workplaces encourage working while unwell. I once called in and told the supervisor I had a fever. “Can’t you take a Tylenol and come in to work?” She asked.

And I worked in a hospital.


77 posted on 12/07/2022 7:54:41 PM PST by susannah59 ( )
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To: DainBramage

I’m up and it’s 1AM where I am.


78 posted on 12/07/2022 10:11:09 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: nickcarraway

3 words:
Rotating
Shift
Work


79 posted on 12/08/2022 12:52:40 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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