5am club - anyone here got any experiences?

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Has anyone joined the 5am club? Official one (Robin Sharma), rather than just waking up at 5am because work / kids / other commitments.

If so: how did you / do you find it? Did it benefit your life?

I haven't read the whole thread, but I am also an early riser.
Sleep in a big priority for me, and I go to bed at 9pm. The precious hours in the morning are the best parts of the day.
It is so quiet, everyone else asleep- outdoors is calm. I have time to do yoga- at home or a sunrise class in town, I meditate, drink coffee, shower, do some facial skincare, hours of self nurture before anyone else is up. A huge secret chunk to myself- I love it!!

Interested to know if any other early risers have night owl partners?

My parents did. It did cause quite a few problems to be totally honest. My mum kept complaining she was lonely and drank too much, and I think my dad found her a bit lazy in the mornings.

My 6yr old is a 5am riser and always has been. I’m exhausted. If I had a choice I would be asleep.

I get up between 3 and 5 to write 4 mornings a week to write as I have kids and amn't a night person. Sometimes I do exercise/stretches to wake me up first. If it works for you go for it but personally I don't think it's a way to live. You're going to bed as early as possible where you can and your body is in a general 'I can't believe I'm up now' state. But that could totally be just me. Been doing this two years and I'm productive in the work I get done but it's not great for my body or head! Everything's different for everyone so it might be your thing

Interested to know if any other early risers have night owl partners?
I do. He works or watches tv until really late, most nights 12/1 or 2. One or two nights a week we have date nights and I stay up until about eleven or twelve without writing (I'm an author), most other nights I have to be in bed by ten or I can't function. It's a bit of a mess really, not easy, and if I could write during the day for longer I'd do that and stay up and have proper time with him tbh but we have 4 kids so until they're much older I prefer/need quality time with them (I write half the time they're at school too)

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Interested to know if any other early risers have night owl partners?

Yes my OH is a night owl. 1am bedtime, sleeps late when he can.
I am a lark, and in bed by 9pm.

I have no idea what the club is (will Google in a bit) but I love the idea of getting up early and having time to myself. I used to go running before work but now the dc get up at early too (both under 4) and Dh seems to sleep through everything so as he’s wfh he doesn’t have to get ready. So he stays in bed until 8.

Have now googled. Like the idea. Am going to maybe try it.

Of course a man would come up with this!

I quite like the idea, but it is for alternative-reality-single-me, not for married with small children me. There’s no way this is compatible with littlies’ erratic timetable.

I Get up around 4ish 5 days a week to get to the gym before my child wakes up. This means it doesn't detract from anytime with him, the gym is quieter and I don't have to go during work.
It's great, I tend to have a tired part during 2-3 each day but that's even without an early start. That's to do with the Circadian Rhythm inside me though, everyone's got one and it splits people broadly into two categories;early birds or night owl.
I'm an early bird, no way I could be a night owl 😂

@Rowofducks

I wake up at 5am no matter what. Have done my whole life it’s like I have a built in alarm clock.

Me too... I wake every day between 04:30 and 05:00, then get up and go cycling for an hour or so. It's a brilliant time of day and there are no people about - just foxes and deer and badgers and things . In winter it's dark and cold but it's still a great time of day to be out... I love the solitude and 'thinking time' without anyone bothering me.

It also gives me loads of time to get sorted for the day and get stuff done before the rest of my family rises...

I did this by accident when the youngest was smaller. He was (luckily) happy to potter around and I started doing Adrienne yoga, then I’d hang out washing then read, all before everyone else got up. However, given that child wakes up at 7 now, I don’t anymore. I feel like it works if you’re pretty single minded, but it doesn’t allow for much flexibility.

The 5 am start would be good for me. But I live with a noisy, large fucker of a husband. I go to bed at 10 but he bounds in at 11.30, crashes about the ensuite and throws himself on the bed.
I am a chronic insomniac so maybe its time to just move rooms.

I tried doing this. I get up at 5am most mornings now, but I don't do the Sharma routine. I do like having some time to get my head, life and house together but unfortunately one of my DC also has started getting up at about 5am so it's not 'me time' just extra time. The biggest Change for me is that at 9pm if I'm tired and DC are asleep I just let myself go to bed. I don't stay up to do the housework or anything. I never plan to work late. At 9pm I just let myself off the hook, anything that needs doing I can do in the morning. That gives me time to wind down properly, and has for the most part cured a lifetime of insomnia.

I am always up between 5 am and 5.30. DCs and DH up at 6. I did not know it was a 'thing' but I like to have some time to myself. I listen to podcasts and have coffee and do some quiet tidying. I leave for work about 7 am.

BUT- we go to bed early. Really early. Bed usually by 8.30 for reading and lights out by 9.30. The whole family.

I have been getting up at. 5.30am for about 6 months now. I began it as a way to get time to myself as teens and DH and animals are always THERE.

I find it makes me go to bed earlier which is great...I"m usually in bed by about 9.30-10 these days. I get more done in general.

When I was working in an office and had to leave home at 7:30. I would wake up at 5:30 to have an hour to myself before I had to get up and get ready. But that was to drink coffee in bed and go on my iPad!

I’m not into meditation and doing exercise or study that early would feel like a big chore. It wouldn’t feel like “me time”. I’m also very anti routine. Our lives are already regimented enough without organising our spare time too.

So in principle I agree that waking up early gives you some nice peaceful time before the day starts. But I think it should be used how you want. Not to follow yet another routine.

I did this for two years to write a book. It would not have been written without that. May do it in the future again. I find I focus best in the morning.

@MareofBeasttown

I did this for two years to write a book. It would not have been written without that. May do it in the future again. I find I focus best in the morning.

I am interested in this very much. I used to write and loved it and feel I need to start again- just for me and for pleasure.

Congratulations on your book. :)

I naturally wake up at 5.30 am. I like it as I have time to exercise, get showered and dressed, eat a proper breakfast and leave the house at 6.55 am for work. I've always been like this.

If I had the same level of energy at 3pm as I do at 6am I’d say it was a positive thing. I sometimes get up at 5am and start work as DH leaves then. It’s really productive, but the school pick up is a mission 😴 and as PP have said, other people are woken up and then it’s ruined 🤣

Surely the important thing is
A) routine
B) close to eight hours sleep

Whether that’s getting up at 5,6,7 doesn’t really matter.

Sounds really interesting. I'm going to check it out