Everyone wants to be more productive.

They want more drive, motivation, and efficiency.

Well, it turns out that there’s something you can do starting tomorrow that can give you that. You can finally have the drive and ability to start the work that you’ve been putting off.

Whether that’s getting in the gym or learning a new skill.

It’s simple: wake up early.

Stick with me here. This is going to come full circle at the end and you’ll understand.

I know your mind probably thinks that’s way too simple. There’s no way that just waking up early can all of a sudden give you the superpower that you’re looking for, but I’ll explain why.

The good and bad

I’ve been waking up early forever and have both hated and loved it.

It started when I was young working on the family farm. I’d wake up early to go do morning chores or go hunting. That’s when I first realized the power of waking up early and what it does for you.

• Getting up and sitting in the woods with my grandpa watching the world come to life
• Riding my bike down the road all alone at 5am heading to the barn before there are any cars on the road
• Hanging out with my grandpa and cousins getting chores done before most people’s alarms had gone off

But then I graduated from college. I’d been away from the farm for a while at this point and had developed and then fixed some serious sleep problems.

I got a job and had to wake up at 4:30 just to get there on time without getting stuck in traffic. This is not the beauty I’m talking about when I say to wake up early.

Just waking up early to go do something you hate will not give you the same energy as it would if you were going to the gym or spending time alone.

This time is for yourself. For your own soul. To be alone and to work on something that helps you move towards your own personal goals.

Which brings us to the first main point.

Structure

People who wake up early for a purpose are the people that have their shit together. Simple as that.

Like I said in the beginning, whether it’s to get to the gym, learn a skill, start a business, or just to be alone before the world wakes up.

If you’re waking up early you’re doing it for a reason. These days I do it to write stuff like this before work.

You wake up early to work on something you care about, and then everything falls in to place. You go to work, you go straight to the gym, you come home and make dinner, you wind down before the next day, and by the time your head hits the pillow you’re practically already falling asleep. It’s wonderful.

Everything starts to fall in to place and revolve around that time in the morning. That morning work block becomes the main priority, but there are things that still need to get done like work, the gym, family, whatever.

So you end up structuring everything to both:

• Force yourself to take care of those other responsibilities no matter what.
• And get in bed to be able to wake up to have that time to yourself the next day.

Things just start to figure themselves out:

• You recognize that sacrificing sleep defeats the purpose, so you fix your sleep schedule so that it lines up and you stick to it
• You recognize that you have responsibilities that still have to get done even if you’re tired during the day. So you build the discipline to do them anyway
• You recognize you need a bit of structure in life to succeed. So you set time aside for the important things (exercise, family, work, friends) and cut out the things that don’t serve you (staying up late, drinking, smoking weed)

The person that wakes up early is the person who is constantly improving to be the best they can be for themselves and their family. They end up doing meaningful work, providing for those they care about, and being strong physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Why?

The reason this works is because of testosterone. This is also why it freaking sucks at first and then becomes the greatest thing ever after some commitment.

Sleep is probably the single most important factor when it comes to testosterone levels. Everyone always says to fix your sleep to fix your testosterone, but this is why:

Your testosterone peaks as you wake up and slowly declines throughout the day with another little push before you go to bed.

So, you shouldn’t just get the same amount of sleep each night. You should go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.

Once you fix this and get into a routine of sleeping good and sleeping at the same time each day, you’ll notice that your testosterone cycle has adjusted, and will be at it’s peak for the first few hours you’re awake.

You now combine this with everything we talked about already.

• Wake up early. I’m at 5am right now giving me an hour before work and I’d like to push that to 4:30am.
• Spend that time working on something that you care about. If you like to workout in the morning do that, if you like to write like me do that, if you just want to start with a solid morning routine with some journaling that’s good too.
• Then structure your day to make sure you’re getting everything else done that you need to. You’re waking up to improve yourself and eventually become the person that your future family is going to need. This is the time for you to figure that out. Build the discipline now.

Now, I spoke in an earlier video about testosterone and how it has to do with lifestyle more than anything. This is where you build that upward cycle for your testosterone.

You fix your sleep, you wake up with a purpose, you workout hard, you eat a good diet, and it’s all challenging you to be better. This is exactly where you want to be.

Full circle

So the superpower isn’t exactly waking up early, it’s testosterone. Our own personal built in superpower that we just don’t really know how to access.

Instead of just trying to “fix your sleep” or “workout hard” to have higher testosterone, you’re now putting it all together, using something something you care about as your main driver, waking up early to do it, and then structuring everything else around that.

You make it happen even though it’s challenging, and your higher testosterone levels will help you make it all happen.

You end up in a cycle where your lifestyle requires high testosterone, and your high testosterone levels give you the energy to live the lifestyle you have.

Wake up early. Structure your life. And Challenge yourself. It’s the best thing you can do.

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