How To Become a Morning Person in One Week

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For me, it’s not about productivity. It’s about having time in the morning to just chill. Not having to rush out of the house to get to work on time is amazing. I’ve been getting up around 5:30 for 3 years now. It’s amazing. Having time to cook a better breakfast, take longer showers, longer time to exercise.

what I really appreciate about your videos is that first you try something and then you explain how you did it and give science based advices to support what you’re saying. you’re not vomiting the same things you hear every time and everywhere just to put up a video. great work Zach 👏🏻

I would love to be a morning person and wake up early but here in Denmark it's so difficult to wake up early when it's so dark and freezing cold 🥶

I love how you always show yourself trying something and then make another video explaining how to do it (just like the running videos)! Super cool!

The most valuable here is cold shower in the morning. I cold turkey snapped from 8am groggy as hell, to 5am, ultra alert by 5:30am, workibg/being productive by 6am. COLD SHOWER. I swear on my life it'll change everything. And you don't have to start it freezing cold to where you can't get in. Start it Luke warm/warm to where you can actually get in, then walk it down slowly, u till its cool/cold and where you get a shiver and want to get out. Do that till you can stay in there for a couple minutes. You're morning will completely change. Caveat is... You'll get really sleepy around 7-8pm, sooo not so great if you're younger and all your friends constantly go out late at night. Great if you want to outperform your coworkers/get home stuff done.

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I LOVE MY MORNINGS. I get up without an alarm clock between 6-7am every day and mornings are the best parts of my day because I get more done, I am excited, nothing has happened during the day that could affect me and I'm in full control of how my day could look like later on. Thank you for this video 💕

I’d like to thank you for giving the motivation to finally start doing what ive been postponing for months. I’ve been binging a lot of your videos. I’m just some lazy 34 year dude stuck in a dead end soul sucking job that pays peanuts. It’s time to change that. To at least add some of what I’m passionate back into my life. Thanks!

I’m definitely way more productive in the morning! Once it’s night and dark outside it’s so much harder to be productive and I naturally start relaxing generally.

This really helped me a lot thank you. I went from 8am to 7 am now and Im slowly going back to my old routine at 6am. It realy helped with my depression.

I have tried so hard to break up with the snooze button but it’s so difficult for me. I also find it more difficult to get up early in the winter when it’s so dark. You have some great tips here though, I’m going to download the app!

"Get some early light," meanwhile the UK at 7am: 🌃 I've actually been getting up earlier this week because of these sorts of things, it does really work, cheers Zach.

Hi!!!!!!! Thank you so much for this video! I have scheduled to start waking up at 5am every morning starting next Monday morning. This month I am focusing on trying new things that will improve my body and soul - things that scare me but I know are important to being more productive and starting my day in a positive way. Thank you again and I hope you have a lovely week! ❤❤

This video is right on time!! Just today morning I was thinking about how to get up early because I'm unable to do so these days. Perfect!

I don’t know what it was about your video that clicked for me. But 1 morning I woke about 530, thought “half hour till alarm goes off”. Then I remembered I’d need 90 minutes to cycle through sleep not 30 for alarm. I got out of bed and I have not needed an alarm since!! I wake at the end of REM cycle and get up. So much more time to ease into the day. More energy throughout the day too not constantly feeling cheated out of sleep. I just had to share. Thank you!!

Oh man! The life in the evening and / or at night is a big fat illusions. All we do is either hang out with friends, munch food or the most common worst habit is spend our time watching screens. This watching screen typically includes, binging on tv series, playing games, browsing internets, writing and reading comments on YT, Twitter etc, checking social networking sites or simply browsing internet. Overtime, this starts to erase our purposes in life, creates lack of motivation, in many cases results in depression, and physical health also starts to deteriorate. On the other hand, waking up early in the morning after a good night of enough amount of sleep gets one roaring to get going on the day, the morning vibe itself fills one with motivation and wasting time on screen at this point is hard for many of us. The benefits of early to bed and early to rise is indeed the way to be healthy and wise.

My Struggle is when I'm in a bad sleep schedule, I'll try to go to bed at a reasonable time, For it to take 2~3 hours to fall asleep, Only to repeat the bad sleep I had the previous night. It's an awful cycle to be in and incredibly difficult to get out of.

I learned about this in undergrad, so I think it’s great that you are making this info widely known. I really like the specific examples that dug into advice we hear often. Ie I’ve heard several channels suggest getting more light exposure to sleep better but actually describing how lux content varies between indoor vs outdoor environments was really intriguing. Goooood job Zach!

i love the darkness and the coldness and the quietness of the morning