5am start

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I was reading a book that said that the most succesful people get up at 5am.

What do you think. What time do you get up at?

OP, I am blatantly place marking to see how you get on. This does not appeal remotely to me but I wish you luck!

I suspect it's more for circadian rhythms being a healthy sleep pattern.

I'd be interested to hear as well.

In a strange state of tired but restless at present so no 5am pinging awake here!

I like the idea of getting up with sunrise and going to bed with the sunset and actually managing to sleep. My body has other plans and it would never happen.

On work days, about 5.10. I walk the dog and have a 30 min commute and start work at 7am. I'm not an entrepreneur or high flying executive.

snap 5 am. out by 6:50 6 days a week. very non-successful.

May be it should read "successful people .like getting up at 5am"

coz I am not a morning person and resent it every day. May be I would be more successful if I jumped out of bed at 5am ready for the day...but I don't 😂

I normally head to bed about this time [3-4am] so wouldnt be a good idea for me but good luck anyone trying this out 🤣🫠🙃

I’m not sure that the 5am part is necessary but I do see the logic of front loading your day in the mornings with the things that are beneficial to you (eg working out, learning, reflecting) before you have to work / do childcare ect.

Because if you leave them until the end of the day when you’re physically tired or mentally drained you are less likely to want to do them.

When i was younger and well
I would get up at 4.40am , and leave the house at 4.50am to get to work for 7.30am and would work till 6.30 and get home by 8pm. Christ knows how i did it
Just thinking about that now makes me tired 🤣

There’s a genetic link to our sleep cycles. These go far back in time to when some of ancestors would need to stay up all night to guard against predators before going to sleep and then others would get up early in the morning to stand guard.

Sleeping through the night is something that came out of the Industrial Revolution. Factories wanted their workers to work during the sunlight hours - which meant that they needed to sleep throughout the night.

Prior to this people in Europe practiced a bi-phasic sleep cycle and they would go to sleep in the early evening and wake up and get things done during the night - including running errands and visiting neighbours. This information only came out when a historian was reviewing Court records and a witness references this (strange to us) sleep cycle and on further investigations revealed that this was common practice.

I don’t function in the mornings. My employers have made accommodations over the decades. My peak work is in the late afternoon and evening when everyone is winding down or going home. This has always been the case for me. I also feel physically ill in the mornings. The sunlight makes me nauseous. I hate it. I also don’t want to eat in the mornings for that same reason.

I don’t get any ideas at 5am as I am asleep.

We get up at 05:00 and all it really means is we go to bed earlier than most 😄

Well maybe the most successful people do get up at 5am, but then what? Do they have staff that makes their food, tidy their house, do their admin, look after their kids, sort out their clothes, whilst they write books about how wonderful they are.

Presuming you equate successful with being rich, it’s just another way to make little people feel like their lack of extreme wealth, or any wealth at all, has always been their own fault and if you had just got up at dawn the capitalist society of winner takes all wouldn’t exist.

I am up at 5 this morning - nothing exciting is going to happen, I will not earn more cash because of it, I am just an early riser that’s all. And like (summer) mornings when rest of house still asleep. Most if the village actually. It’s peaceful. Which is rarer in this noisy world, last thing I want to do is fill it with pointless go-get-em supposed activities, I predict you would feel even worse when the success still failed to roll in.

They probably want to convince people to be awake more so you can consume more as asleep people don’t consume and that’s no good for them.

Wakey wakey, rise and shine 🌞

Are you up yet OP?

5am here. I work 7-3

I get up at 5am every morning sometimes earlier, but then I am asleep about 9am each night. I am often on my laptop at this time. Am I successful? Depends on how you look at it.

Nope. I wake up at 5am sometimes because I work in a supermarket and do 6 am starts. Hardly successful 🤣. Usually it's only once a week I start this early but this week I've had 3 early shifts. 🥱

I’m always up at 4.30-5! It’s just my body clock. I do use the time to lift weights but only after a massive cup of tea, a snack and a Mumsnet scroll. I wouldn’t say I’m “successful” in a capitalist way but it’s nice to get some time for myself and exercise done before the kids are up.

As a morning person this makes sense to me. I like getting up early so I can enjoy sitting in the garden reading and get bits done around the house. I just don't have the energy after work. Ideally I'd go straight to bed within a couple of hours of finishing work.

Also if I have extra work to do I'd rather work at 5.30am than 5.30pm. I think you're best leaning into your natural rhythm if possible.

Woke up at 5am?? OP has witchcraft skills.

Alas blurry eyes and head and can only think about getting a cup of tea.

I’m usually awake by 5, but I don’t get up until 6. I do use the time to think and plan, research stuff etc. But I wouldn’t like to get up before 6.

I get up at 5am or just before everyday. If I'm wfh, I start work. If I'm in the office, I use the time to meal prep for the day & tidy up/put on a wash then get my daughter ready for school. Im too tired after work and want to spend the time with my daughter.

I am definitely more on the ball in the morning and successful in my own way. I would think it depends of you are a morning person or not.

I wake any time from 4am onwards. Not by choice. I work out first as I might as well embrace it.
I’m fine as long as no one talks to me.

I’m not sure that getting up at 5 and going on mumsnet is going to make many of us successful.

@Cheeseplantandcrackers this is true 🤣

I'm happy enough outside now with cup of tea but not mentally alert

5am. Kids wake up at 5, plus we work a lot with china. Meetings at work start from 7:30.

I’m assuming you are talking about the 5am club?
I thought it was an awful book.

my take on it was that people who get up at 5am every day are generally highly motivated, and with that goes success.its a self selecting population.
DH is not a morning person, but is extremely efficient during his work day and is highly successful.
few lazy people get up at 5am.