During the workdays, I wake up at 5am. I remember the moment, when I told my girlfriend that I am doing to do so. She had this “are you crazy?” look in her face. Anyway, I’ve started practising it. And then, couple of weeks later amazing thing happened. She started to wake up at 5am with me. :-)
Why? Why actually to consider waking up at 5am if you have the freedom to stay in bed for longer?
Because it sucks. As my favourite author Jordan B. Peterson claims in his book 12 rules for life: “Life it suffering”. Every one of us will face multiple difficulties during the life. Death of family member is probably the one, which is inevitable. Hard breakups, financial problems, health issues are another good examples.
It is stupid to think that you are the only person on this planet which has problems. The truth is, everybody has them. It is the essence of life as we know it. It is true though, that some people face more difficult problems than the others.
What makes the huge difference between people is how well they prepared for facing those difficulties. Waking up at 5am sucks. And it should! Because of that, it is one of the activities, which helps you to prepare your mind for tough situations, because you face small one each damn morning!
What waking up at 5am also does, it shows you the surface of your true potential. You do it for a month. Maybe even you did not believe that you are actually able to do it. But you did it. Slowly, you start to realise that you are competent person. Then amazing thing will happen. You realise that if you are able to do this, what else can you do? Can you do the same in different life areas? Soon, you practise amazing things across multiple life domains and you gain more power that you can imagine at this moment.
Lastly, waking up at 5am gives you the sense of meaning. When you feel deep in your soul that you do the right thing, that is where meaning can be found. When you willingly sacrifice comfort of your bed in order to work on the best possible version of yourself from early morning, that is where meaning can be found. When you wake up early, because you can wait to face the problems which life brings into being, there is where meaning can be found.
Then, when you will be lying on death bed, the only thing that you could potentially regret is not waking up at 4:30am. :-)
Thanks for reading.