Everyone wants to be more efficient. To be more productive. To be more organized. To work on the side hustle they want to make their main hustle. To be able to enjoy the moment because their work is taken care of.

Now I don’t know exactly what it is you’re missing, but I do know that a 5am morning routine can help.

I’ve already talked about the importance of waking up early before. It’s the first domino that falls in the process of getting your life together. You wake up early and everything else starts to fall into place.

So this isn’t a 5am morning routine where you bullshit around for 4 hours just to post it on instagram and then jerk off all day.

This is a morning routine where you take advantage of the energy that you have in the morning and put it towards what’s most important.

It’s about making the transition from thinking selfishly to becoming a responsible man that cares for himself and those around him regardless of how he feels.

Maybe you have kids, a house to maintain, a wife to take care of — you probably don’t have the time or energy to be working on a side hustle with all of that going on after a long day of work.

Maybe you don’t have all of that yet. But all that means is now is the time to prepare yourself for it.

That just means that one day you’ll have to get up and work hard in many different areas of life not just for yourself, but for the people relying on you.

So this is the real reason behind the 5am morning routine. Not just some gimmick to make you feel good about yourself.

The why

Life these days teaches us to think selfishly. I recently learned that this is why I failed many of my past pursuits like copywriting and music.

All of my time was spent thinking about how what I was doing was serving me, instead of thinking about how I could serve the world and bring value to those around me.

Do I really like this? Is this my passion? Is this what God wants me to do?

Like anyone else I was inspired by athletes, musicians, and successful people that I had assumed just found the thing they were “meant” to do at a young age.

I thought that I had to do the same. Just try things until I found my passion and love every minute of doing it.

I was thinking about it completely the wrong way. I was trying to get out of being disciplined, working through hard times — and most importantly — I was looking for how the world could serve me instead of just using my strengths to bring value to the world.

This mindset is what the 5am morning routine is rooted in. It has nothing to do with passion or selfish pursuits. It’s about becoming the person that works hard, provides, and brings value to those around him — regardless of how he feels.

The structure

The whole point of waking up early itself is to simply maximize your time. You can try to put time into something late at night after a long day of work, exercise, and whatever life wants to throw at you — but that sucks.

Let’s just call this what it is. A lot of us were brought up to go to school and get a job. We completed that and are realizing it’s not what we want.

We aren’t in control of our income. We work hard, earn a decent salary, and still aren’t earning enough to enjoy life the way we were told we would.

But most importantly, we don’t have the freedom we want. This is the reason for the 5am morning routine and what it’s structured around.

Your testosterone is highest and you have the most energy in the 2-4 hours after you get up. The idea is to use that in the morning to work on the side hustle instead of giving it what you have left after a long day.

So the point is to use that energy where it’s most important, and then the rest of the day gets your leftovers, instead of the other way around.

The routine itself is simple. And you’re going to hate this.

Get up, shower, get ready for work, have some caffeine, write for as long as you can, the end.

I know, it’s not flashy like you want it to be, but that’s the point.

• You don’t do it to feel good about yourself
• You don’t do it just to waste time
• You don’t do it just to say you did

You wake up early because this is where the energy is and you want to put that energy towards writing about whatever it is you can talk about to bring value to the world.

If you haven’t gotten there yet, like me, there will be a time where our entire lives is just showing up because other people that we care about are relying on us. It’s that simple.

Social media and the digital age has made us soft and selfish. Always looking for the thing that will serve us and make us feel relaxed or comfortable.

But it turns out that the very things we need as young men are the very things that we’ve been told to avoid: responsibility, accountability, and discomfort.

It’s not about finding what makes you happy or comfortable. It’s about bringing value to those around you, getting immersed in the work, and doing it because it’s what you do.

Do I love writing and making these videos? Is that a passion for me? I like doing it a lot. Sure. It’s very important to me. But love and passion are the wrong words, and they aren’t the words that we should’ve been looking for in the first place.

To sum it up

To sum it up, the point of the 5am morning routine is to work. It’s to put time into building the thing that you’re going to use to bring value to the world.

You do this at 5am so that you put your best energy towards it. Eventually, you’ll get into the routine of going to bed early, getting your sleep, waking up early, and making the most of all your hours throughout the day.

The 5am routine itself is simple. You get up, you get ready, you get some caffeine or nicotine to help you focus, and you write for as long as you can.

You then turn that writing into value for someone else somehow.

In the end you become structured, responsible, and you ignore the selfish pursuit of passion and instead you use your strengths to bring value to the world and those around you.

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