Linh: Sleep is so important. It's not about sleeping early,
it's about having at least six hours of sleep. Because if you
just focus on trying to wake wake up early, but then you
allow yourself three or four hours, then you're really losing
that whole benefit. The whole benefit from it is supposed to
be clarity and smart smartness. And whatever it is, you're
actually going to feel sluggish, you're gonna feel tired, grumpy,
and maybe even pick on your loved ones.
Hi, everybody, and welcome back to my channel. It's Linh Podetti
here, helping you to achieve time of freedom. So you have
more time for self, family, business and life. Now you're
wondering how to wake up early so that you could achieve more.
But at first, you're wondering why am I so crazy to wake up at
3am? Now first of all, let's talk about the benefits. Now I
didn't really know what the benefits were when I got
started. I only decided to wake up early a few years ago,
because I thought successful people do it, so why not try it?
But I didn't really know what the benefits were I just knew
that it made people successful or successful people do it and
come on, if they're successful, and they they might know a thing
or two that non successful people don't know. So that's why
I follow through. But I didn't really know the benefits. Well,
now three or four years ago, I started working on 4am. And I
would say that my life has changed, I'm more happier and
more content. And I also just get more things done that are
important to me. Because at the end of the day, unless you're
happy, and you got everything balanced in your life, it's your
self time for self time for fitness time for family time for
your work. If you don't actually have time for those things and
make time for it, you're never gonna feel fully balanced and
content, the only way to do that is waking up early. Now the
benefit that I found is not just extra time, but it's also the
energy. So in the morning, when I wake up, I have so much energy
and my brain cells is really effective. So this is when I
started to come up with some great insights and ideas. I used
to go to the gym. But at this moment in time, I actually work
out from home on a zoom call. But I'm able to fit in all those
extra things in the morning that is important like to get more
energy is by also doing some exercise to boost that energy.
So I'm able to achieve overall more ideas and insights so that
I could actually use it for my business, I could plan out my
week plan out my day much easier. And I have time for
journaling, which is very healthy for the mind. I also
have more time to work on the important work. So early in the
morning, when it's so tranquil, I can actually focus on high
impactful work that requires a lot of my thinking. Or I would
spend more time doing content planning, like what I'm going to
talk about or creating content for Instagram or YouTube. This
is where my brain is fully clear and can actually come up with
those content. And of course, by having all that time to myself
and clearing my brain and having all that proactive time to
myself, I'm able to then at 7:30 when I spend time with my kids
preparing them for lunch, I'm not as like, you know, thinking
about work like oh my god, I have all these to dues because
I've already done all of them. And prior to everyone else
waking up. And so when the time I have to prepare the kids, or
even throughout my day, I'm not as feeling rushed, because I
felt like I've already achieved the key things in my day. Okay,
so you probably get it. All right, I want to wake up early,
because it sounds great. I want to be successful as well, but
how to actually do it. Now what I did was back five, three years
ago, I can't remember, I woke up at 5am. I started at 5am
actually, because I saw someone that I knew that could wake up
at 4am. So I felt that it was possible. Because sometimes you
hear about it, but you don't feel like it's possible. You
think it's like I don't know they're crazy, or they must be
different. But when you know someone personally, and they
could do it, it just gives you more confidence. So I'm telling
you now if I can do it, you can do it. So use me as that example
of that person that can do it. So then I wake up at 5am, only
to realize that I only gained about an hour before my kids
wake up a few weeks later, I decided to wake up at 4am to
just give myself more time. And yes, it was a big shock to the
system. It's like from someone that wakes up at seven or eight
to then all of a sudden 4 I was very sleepy for a few weeks. But
I pushed through you know, by the time it's afternoon I'm
quite tired. But I was very mindful of what time I sleep. So
people always ask me, What time do you actually sleep then?
Well, let me tell you another limiting belief that stops
people from waking up early is thinking they need eight hours
of sleep, because we're all told that you need eight hours of
sleep. But is that really true? It's not really true, because
now I've realized that I actually only need six solid
hours of sleep. So what happens when you allow yourself to be
quite tired by the time is nine or 10pm is that as soon as you
go to bed, you're dead asleep, you're so tired. But whereas if
you just have all the time in the world, try to fall asleep
and wake up anytime. I don't know your body is just you know,
just wide awake. But when you push yourself to you know nine
or 10pm and then you've got six hours of sleep. I just find
myself to have a very solid quality sleep. So it's not about
quantity of hours you sleep, it's the quality of the hours
the
you sleep. So six solid hours is good enough. Now, once it is
don't sacrifice on sleep, though. So I always make sure I
sleep for six hours. So there are cases where I have to go out
for dinner or something happens. And I can't sleep by nine or
10pm. So what do I do, I actually change my alarm clock
to go and push it further so that I have to fit in six hours.
So my tip for you is don't sacrifice on Sleep, sleep is so
important. It's not about sleeping early, it's about
having at least six hours of sleep. Because if you just focus
on trying to wake wake up early, but then you allow yourself
three or four hours, then you're really losing that whole
benefit. The whole benefit from it is supposed to be clarity and
smartness. And whatever it is, you're actually gonna feel
sluggish. You're gonna feel tired, grumpy, and maybe even
pick it on your loved ones, right? Like I was thinking of my
husband, I always pick on my husband. Now, what time do you
have to sleep? Well, you have to be strict. It's like, all right,
it's nearly nine o'clock, I'm going to go to bed now. The good
thing is when you have kids, you have to get them in bed as well.
So I love just kind of tucking them in bed and having a falling
asleep as well. And when my husband goes to sleep, he might
poke me and say, Hey, come back to my room. So I go back to the
room. So what time do you sleep just work backwards. So if you
want to wake up at six, make sure you you know, going to bed
at 11 or 12. Come on 6am is not that early, right? If you're
watching this because you want 3am, then just start to try to
push to make sure that you can have a six hour sleep. Next tip
is don't st start hard and fast. So if you are used to waking up
at seven, and you have no other reasons you have to wake up
early, but you want to. Then start training yourself to wake
up slowly, you know, like half an hour early for the next few
weeks, maybe three or four weeks. And then you push
yourself to another 15 minutes. Even if you did 15 minute
increments, it's a lot more helpful. Now I jumped from kind
of a 6-7am person to straight to 4am I have the motivation
because my kids wake up and I don't have any time for myself.
So I just really like you know, bite my tongue and just really
did it anyway. But I know it's harder when you actually don't
have a reason to maybe you're not married yet. And you don't
or you don't have a partner, it's even more challenging to go
and put yourself some boundaries and forcing yourself to wake up.
But write down the list of the reasons why do you want to wake
up early? You know, How serious are you about your success? What
are you going to do in those hours? So the next thing I want
to share is what do I actually do in that morning routine. So I
wake up at 3am now, now last year, I pushed myself on 4am to
330. And then I changed myself loaded to 3am right, I didn't
just go straight to 3am out of nowhere, it was a bit of an
increment, like I just told you before. But the next thing is,
the thing that I still do is leaving my clock on my alarm on
my phone outside of my room, I don't sleep with my phone, and I
have the alarm on loud. So at 3am when it rings, I run quickly
to turn it off so that I don't wake up the family and it forces
me to be wide awake. If you leave your phone next to you,
there's a high chance you're going to actually press snooze.
And then you fall back to sleep. And I still do it to this day,
if I ever happen to accidentally leave my phone there, it's
almost impossible to get up. But if you leave your phone outside,
when you hear the alarm, you're forced to get up. And if you're
already up, you're still tired, but you just stay awake, better,
more easier. So what is my first morning routine is I wake up, I
turn the alarm off, I go to brush my teeth, I always have a
routine of go to the toilet. Number two, it's actually quite
healthy way I just feel like I can let it go at that time. And
I don't have to feel like bloated. So I do that. And then
I also you know, brush my teeth, etc. and feeling more awake now
because I'm you know, wiping my face and, and putting water in
my face. Now the next thing is I actually go and write on my
journals. I have a journal app called momento. Now, this app,
I've been using it for 10 years. And I've been using it I used to
use it every, you know, month, week or month when I felt like
writing on it. But now it's actually a daily thing. So every
day I would write down number one would be what did I dream
about? I actually like to write quickly down What did I dream
because I love to look back at some of the crazy weird dreams
that sometimes come true. And I like to go, you know, jot that
down and just be able to read back and see a pattern in my
dreams. Then the next thing is, what is my focus today? Like?
What is the whole thing for today? Maybe it's you know,
getting through my YouTube or, you know, meeting up with
partners or whatever it is, what is the thing, focus for today?
And then the next thing is, what do I want to feel? What do I
want to be? Who do I want to be? So this is when you set the
intention of who you want to be? And how do you want to feel? And
surprisingly, throughout the whole day, I actually ended up
feeling and being that way. So don't underestimate the power of
actually putting words onto paper or onto this app. And then
I also do gratitude. So I list down as many grateful things as
possible, minimum three, but that's it. But if sometimes I
feel like I have a lot of thought clogged in my head, I
would actually write more I would elaborate like you know,
I'm feeling this or yesterday I did this and this is how I'm
feeling. Sometimes I don't write like a journal entry, but
sometimes I like to write it just to capture the moment
capture my thoughts, you know, need to break down some things
onto paper. So after journaling is where I would focus on my
work. So if you're watching this video now, and you might see
another video on my channel called morning routine, it's a
slightly different back then, you know, so over the years, you
gotta adapt to life, you know, things change, and you also want
to optimize and audit yourself. I used to do meditation, and
then go to the gym, etc. But meditation caused me to feel
sluggish. And then I used to drive to the gym, whereas now I
found a gym session at home group training session that's at
6am in the morning. So now I actually have a few solid hours
was just dedicate to studying. Whereas back then of studying or
working, working on important things, whereas back then I used
to go to the gym, and then work, you know, and some days work
some days do but at the end of day, it's almost like self care
in the morning. It's like your own time for self care and slash
important work kind of morning routine. Yeah. So right now my
morning routine is that I work for almost journaling,
reflection, which is self care between 3 to 4, I would say,
between 4 to 5:30 is where I actually have a coffee with my
husband I fit in a session with my husband, where I'm having a
coffee and bonding, putting some time in my love life. And then
after he leaves, I might fit in a little bit more work, then I
exercise for about half an hour to 45 minutes, sometimes stretch
to an hour. But by around seven ish, the kids wake up, kids are
now five and seven. So they do sleeping a little bit more.
After that it's mommy duty time, it's taking them to school, etc.
and then coming back to work about 9:30am where I go back
into work. Now the work is kind of a little bit different. It's
more distracting because there's team members that are logging in
asking questions, and I'm responding to the day to day
kind of work. Whereas in the morning, it's a different kind
of work. It's work that is more high level, you almost feel like
you're looking into yourself and seeing what do I want to work on
versus kind of the daily work is very inside and kind of more
reactive, right? Okay, now you're probably wondering, night
time, like what do I do at night? So I used to not journal
at night, because I already journal in the morning. But
lately, I actually enjoy journaling or practicing a new
habit of journaling, because it is really helpful to reflect
back as well. So before bed at 8:30, or 9pm. Because I wake up
at three now I need to be in bed at 9. So that gives me six
hours. But before I could actually sleep at 10. But now
it's about nine at night, I would journal kind of how was my
day today? any worries? You know, what are the best case
scenario? What's the worst case and just think about my day or
things that I'm thinking about so that when you're sleeping,
your brain kind of still goes into the work mode and digest
things and give you some more insight. Now the day I journal,
I definitely can see the difference, like I just have
more time to digest and have clarity. journaling isn't
supposed to take more time, it's supposed to save you more time.
Because when you're journaling, you have clarity, you can
declutter things you might see things that you'd want to get
rid of from your life, you have a different outlook and
perspective on things, which actually helps you to go through
life and have more energy and motivation for life. Sometimes
people don't journal because they think it's going to take my
time. But for me, it gives me more time because I'm more
smarter at my next step, smarter at how to, you know, redesign
my life or etc. So because you're thinking about things
that you put on paper, you can see problems or you can see
opportunities, and then you could do something about it. So
then you have a recap for you is start somewhere, do commit to
waking up early and start somewhere and know that it's
hard, but you can always transition slowly. And if I can
do it, you can do it. And I guess the key success tip is
always live your phone outside if you want to turn the alarm
on. If you want to put the alarm on, you have to have it outside
of your room because that's the only thing that will make it
stick for you to actually wake up at 3am. So yeah, just put
your alarm outside now. That's it guys. If you love to hear
more about how to wake up early, ask me in the comments below so
that I could help you, other then that I have more videos to
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