- Newsflash, literally no one
ever feels like waking up early, no one.
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What's up socials?
Welcome back to Amy TV.
Recently we talked about making time
for everything you want to
and one of the tips that I talked about
was to find your me time.
Now I want you to stop trying to become a morning person,
because nobody wants to become a morning person.
For a lot of us me time happens
before the rest of the world wakes up.
It's just kind of difficult when
you want to be one of those people who hasn't woken up yet.
The struggle is real, right?
It's like do you wake up early
and go after the life you want
with all the time that you get back
or do you sleep like a little baby,
because you're still so good at it
and your like why waste all the good sleep;
I feel like I should just stay here.
I wanna talk about how I overcame this habit
of talking myself into sleeping more,
because I'm already a pretty champion sleeper
so it got to be a little excessive after a while.
I'm gonna talk about how I overcame that,
how you can do it too and how you can
actually wake up at 5 A.M. even if you don't feel like it.
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First things first.
No one's telling you to get less sleep,
no one, not here, not anywhere else.
You can keep saying,
"Well I guess I just won't sleep as much."
You can get some more sleep, I promise.
Start with going to be early.
It may seem weird at first, but you're gonna
get to a beautiful point in your life
when you're like, "You know, going to bed early
"feels just as good as sleeping in."
Okay, maybe I made that part up
however if you go to bed early
you're going to get as many hours as you need to sleep
so that you can make up the difference
for the fact that you're probably
waking up two to three hours early.
I really have gotten to the point where going to bed early
is something I pride myself on.
Probably aging myself right now.
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Before you go to bed early, the very last step
you need to take unless it's like reading
to help yourself go to sleep or whatever,
the big digital step to take is turn off all your screens.
I want you to put your phone to bed in another room.
Arianna Huffington actually started sharing
this beautiful idea of giving your phone
an actual bed to sleep in in another room.
I thought it was adorable.
That was Arianna, right?
I didn't make that up in my head?
We're not sure.
I always set my alarm on my phone.
The phone is in the room I plan to spend my morning time in
when I do get up at 5 A.M.
Set the alarm for 5 A.M.
It usually goes to sleep in this room, my office
so that I have to get out of bed
to go to turn the alarm off, enter the room
that I'm like yes I could get a lot done
if I stay on my feet right now and I tend to do that.
But if your phone is asleep on your nightstand,
comment below if you are one of the masters,
masters of unconsciously turning off your alarm,
absolute master that when you are dead asleep
that at some point in time the alarm went off
and your ridiculously sleepy and dead self turned it if.
It's incredible what we have the ability to do
when we're not awake.
I still don't quite understand it.
It scares me, which is why I put my phone in another room.
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when you wake up at 5 A.M. and you're so annoyed,
so so annoyed that there is an alarm going off
in the far, far distance of another room
I want you to now count down from five.
I'm not taking credit for this tip.
I just got done reading Mel Robbin's The Five Second Rule,
which is not a rule about dropping food on the ground,
it's a different one.
I guess they're both technically rules,
but they share a name.
You must read this book.
It is going to open up so much perspective for you
on why you would wake up early,
but also why you would do a lot of other things in life
that you might be hesitating on
and she talks about the fact that
when you count down from five that hesitation
starts to go away, because your brain
is doing something different,
it's focusing in a different way
by counting down and usually
when you get to one you gotta do something.
If you put yourself in the mindset
to move forward at that moment
that you count down from five to one
the next thing to do would be get out of bed.
And I absolutely love how she talks about
feelings and actions and the way that
they are not at all connected really.
You absolutely have to ignore your feelings
in a moment where the harder thing to do doesn't feel great
and waking up early is one of those things.
So if you really want a push and a kick in the butt,
highly recommend the audio book,
highly recommend the audio for Five Second Rule
by Mel Robbins.
I will link to that below.
You can get a free copy from Audible
if you are joining with my link down there.
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the big, big thing that I have to do every single day,
which I'm already kind of a stickler for,
but I think everyone should do
is skincare and brushing teeth
and all that sort of self lovingness stuff
first thing in the morning.
If I don't splash water on my face
and go through the cleanser, the toner,
the serums, the eye cream, the brushing of the teeth,
the moisturizer, all those things
if I don't do all that there's no way I'm gonna wake up.
I cannot start journaling or drinking my coffee
or planning my day or returning any ...
Well I don't return emails
first thing in the morning, let's get real.
Those things I like to do in the morning,
I can't do it with crust in my eyes
or my face pulling from how dry it is.
Skincare is the first thing and usually
when you come into contact with water
that's a really good way to wake up
so I highly suggest you do that next.
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You wanna stay awake at 5 A.M. and actually do something
then don't fight the thing you need
and that's probably coffee.
If it's not coffee, bless you.
I actually start with lemon water,
because I try to go for a jolt to the system
that's a little bit more natural,
but coffee is soon to follow.
And I know you're probably not supposed to
have coffee first, first, first thing in the morning,
but that's why I start with lemon water,
but the lemon water's kind of my excuse to have coffee
so I go in that order, lemon water and then coffee
and then the coffee is just like (gasp) so much better.
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if you wanna wake up at 5 AM
and have this be a long term habit,
the worst thing you could do is spend this time
doing things that other people expect you to do.
That includes email, that includes
pretty much anything else.
Ideally when you wake up at 5 A.M.
it really is your time to decide.
Somebody else isn't telling you what to do.
You're not having to help someone else
get ready with their day, none of that stuff.
Ideally you're doing something that you truly wanna do.
It could be as simple as reading a book
or it could be working on a side project
that you don't have time to do if you just
go to work for eight hours a day then come home tired.
You can literally get back that one or two hours a day
that you need in order to move a project forward,
simply by waking up.
So if you waste this time that you've had
awake early while the rest of the world is silent
and not bothering you, doing stuff
that you don't actually enjoy doing
you're not going to be able to maintain this.
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I also advise that you do some kind of journaling.
I actually recommend you do something really simple.
You could do either like the five journal;
I absolutely love the five minute journal;
or the happiness journal, which is Gretchie Rubin's journal.
If you do one of these they're very, very fast;
they're very, very simple.
Or you can do Morning Pages, which is longhand three pages.
Whatever it is, if you actually spend time
just pulling things out of your own brain
in that early morning moment
when you are at your highest productivity
and you're thinking the most clearly
then you're actually probably gonna get a better result
out of the rest your day,
especially if you spend time in those journals
with gratitude or with goal setting
or just reviewing your goals over and over and over.
I love to rewrite my annual goals
as many times as I can in just one sitting.
If I can do it every day of the week I would.
Sometimes it's like three days a week.
I just wanna remind myself what an I working toward,
what am I working toward, what am I working toward.
That's good time spent, because you're just
basically drilling into your head
the thing that you're trying to do.
I oftentimes find that when I'm journaling
or writing my goals or all that kind of stuff
I end up being like okay morning pages, are we done yet,
because I'm really, really, really am amped
and I wanna start working now.
I will literally write to myself,
can I be done writing now, because I'm so excited to start,
because I've been reviewing my goals,
the things I wanna do, the things that are on my mind,
the fields of activation that I have.
I love it.
It's a really good feeling.
So just getting your thoughts out of your head
every single day, I look forward to that every day.
That's part of the reason why I want to wake up.
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I think this goes back to the big, big, big one
and you need this no matter what.
You have to have a very good reason
to get these hours back in your day,
to wake up early every day.
If it's simply just to have some quiet time
and that's enough for you, awesome.
Other people probably need a bigger goal than that
or a bigger desire than that
and it could be that they wanna
leave their full time job someday or
they're working on some passion project that is their hobby,
but they absolutely love and it brings them joy
every time they work on it.
You have to have a why in order for you
to not worry about how you feel when you're in bed.
It's so easy to get caught up in the warm, lovey feels
of being in bed and staying in bed
until the last, last, last moment.
But if you identify with the why of what you want to do
during that time in the morning, it is so, so fun
when you look at that with your brain
and go oh that's way better
than me just getting a couple more minutes of sleep,
because I can get more sleep tonight;
I have so much to do now; I have so much
to do with my life while I have it.
It was very hard to get out of bed early
at any point of time in my life;
when I worked for myself, when I didn't,
no matter what it was very hard, very hard
and pretty much impossible to wake up early
if I didn't identify a direct reward
for why I would do it.
You can drink the coffee, you can move the phone,
you can do all of these things,
but if you don't have the why
you're just gonna sleep in every day
and it's actually been pretty easy for me
to go from a 5 A.M. sleeper back to
a sleeping in sleeper back to a 5 A.M. sleeper,
because if you lose track of
why you wanted to do all of this,
suddenly you'll find yourself sleeping back in again
and nobody wants that either.
You don't wanna be standing in the middle of your kitchen
at 5 o'clock in the morning like why am I doing this.
That's how I would advise that you wake up every day
at 5 A.M. even when you don't fell like it.
Do you have any tips?
I wanna hear from you.
Leave them in the comments below
and also tell me what will you do
with your extra time every morning.
I'd love to know.
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