How To ACTUALLY Wake Up At 5AM [0:00:00]
All right, guys, so I’m going to start this off with an extreme hack, get a dog.
Now, I can’t guarantee your dog is going to wake you up at exactly 5:00 AM.
Maybe a little bit before or maybe a little bit after, but they are going to wake you
up.
As you can see here, guys, I never had a chance.
She wants to go out for a walk.
She needs to take care of business.
She wakes me up with puppy kisses.
In today’s video, gents, I’m laying out over a dozen hacks, so you could actually
wake up at 5:00 AM.
[Music] My next tip, wake up to this, not to this.
Yes, your phone has an alarm, but this right here doesn’t notifications throughout the
night, and won’t disturb your sleep like this one.
Now, I know a lot of you guys are going to ignore that last tip, so here’s another
one, go into your settings before you go to sleep and put your phone on airplane mode.
Why?
You won’t get those notifications, you won’t get calls that will wake you up in the middle
of the night.
My next early morning wake up hack, record a custom message to motivate you so you jump
out of bed.
All right, Tony.
Get your lazy [beeping sound] out of bed now.
It works.
Now, this next one is really important, don’t hit snooze.
The research is clear, it does nothing for you.
You need to go back to sleep for at least ninety minutes to get into a restful sleep.
That extra ten, fifteen minutes, it does nothing for you except make you late.
Now, this next tip seems obvious, but so many guys fail to do it and that is go to sleep
at a reasonable hour.
For me, this reasonable bed time is 9:00 PM.
Now, I know some of you guys are saying, Antonio, there is no way.
I’m lucky to get to bed at midnight.
Gents, I get it and I’m not saying you need to be in bed by 9:00 PM, but I am saying for
me this works, and the way that we do it is we start bed time at 7:00 PM.
I’ve got four kids, there’s a lot that needs to get done.
We’ve got cleanup, we got to get teeth brushed, we got to get stories read.
That’s a two-hour process.
I have faced the reality, it does take a hundred and twenty minutes to get four kids ready
for bed and to clean the house.
That being said, we’ve made it fun.
I give my kids piggyback rides up the stairs, I make sure to brush their teeth when they’re
upside down.
Yes, they actually enjoy that.
And, I’ve also made it fun for myself.
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The next hack, this one is simple, don’t break the streak.
So, as you saw in December, I woke up every morning and went to the gym and did some type
of exercise.
You want to have a consistent streak like this because guess what?
As those days build up, it – there’s a little bit more pressure, you do want it to
be that day that you break the streak.
Next up, get a better night sleep.
That sounds simple, how do you do it?
So, don’t drink alcohol before going to bed.
Don’t drink coffee afternoon when you’re going to sleep.
And make sure you go to sleep in a dark room.
Even a little bit of light can throw it off.
Guys, go to sleep in a pitch black room, you’re going to sleep better.
Now, this next tip is to leverage the power of light, to understand how it wakes us up
and also the lack of light can help put us to sleep.
So, first up, throughout the day you want to expose yourself to light.
You need to get outside you need to at least for an hour walk around and expose yourself
to bright light.
Now, the second part of this tip is to know when to turn it down.
About two hours before you’re going to go to bed, you want to reduce the amount of light
that you’re exposing yourself to.
And, let’s talk about blue light, that’s what’s emitted from your phone, from computer
screens.
Two hours before going to bed, you want to cut off that blue light, so you can sleep
better.
Now, this next hack for me is probably the most powerful and that is I’ve got an accountability
partner.
My son and I go to the gym in the morning and so, I got to wake up because he is waking
up, and I am not going to let down my son.
We’re going to wake up, we’re going to go to that gym early in the morning.
[0:05:07] And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve got my
trainer, Steve, waiting for us at the gym.
Guys, you want to have someone that holds you accountable to do what you say you’re
going to do.
Next up, gents, have an important commitment that you can’t back out of.
Me, making breakfast at 7:15 AM.
I’ve got four little people that expect breakfast to be there.
Dad is making breakfast for them, so I know if I want to do that I’ve got to wake up
early to go to the gym, I’ve got a number of things I need to do which leads me to the
next tip and that is to break out your morning in excruciating detail, so you know what you’re
doing, when you’re going to be doing it.
So, when I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is I drink a big glass of water
because when I drink that water, even if I fall back asleep, I’m going to be waking
up.
Then, I have coffee with my wife.
We like to get up together, this is the time that we talk and then, I’m going to be making
my way to the gym, I need about ten minutes to get over to the gym.
My son is now up, he’s already been walking the dog, and we’re now going to the gym
together.
We were at the gym for about 6:00 to about 7:15, and then I’ll come back and I’ll
be home at 7:15 to make breakfast.
So, this next hack I really enjoy and that is I allow myself treats in the AM, two in
particular; great coffee and the hot tub.
So, with great coffee, I go all out.
I’ve got a French press, I make my own cream, I have coconut sugar.
I look forward to having my coffee.
Then, when I go to the gym, I’ve got about ten minutes that I can soak and just enjoy
in the hot tub.
And this is something even if I just set foot in the gym, I’m allowed to go in the hot
tub.
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