I found Jocko Wilink on Casey Neistats channel. Also a good interview. There's other examples such as Jeff Bezos who also wakes up early as well, and sleep early etc
I started today actually waking up at 6 AM to spend 40 minutes working out at my homegym, and another ~40-50 minutes taking online course work or working on personal projects. Then I go to work. After work (6 PM), I usually go to meetups / take a breather for at least 1 hour, and then do personal project work starting around 8 to 9PM. Bedtime to me starts at 10 PM now, worst case at 11 PM.
Sundays I sleep in though, b/c Saturdays are less predictable, and sometimes I need a hard reset day. When I get really tired and fatigued and don't want to workout, I just do a 1-2 mile jog/run and that resets my cycle
It really is all about winning the first battle of the day. I didn't feel like getting up this morning, but I forced myself too, and didn't hit the snooze button at all.
Mentally you can only handle 2-3 spurts of high productivity in one day. When you workout in the morning, you get a physical high and also a mental high starting the day. It slows down, picks back up again possible mid-day, and again at night to me at least.
On the weekends I do sleep in until 7am or so mainly because my gym doesn't open until 7am on the weekends. I'm going to start building a home gym soon so I can save the time driving back and forth to the gym.
I tell people that while it sounds silly, winning that first battle each day is a big thing. Get up, win. Gym, win. Now skipping that donut or working on something I would normally procrastinate on is easy.
I wrote a related post on discipline and my general workout routine like 3 months ago on HN. In principle its the same thing as Jocko's podcast, but I think its also important to both have a daily physical and mental routine. Mental things could be journalling /meditating / blogging etc, just pick one and roll with it
Homegym is pretty convenient, what's nice is I can knock out an entire workout in 40 minutes (from warmup to cleanup, and my morning breakfast - workout shake) while watching 20 minutes of youtube / TV / anime etc at the same time. This is how I psychologically reward myself when I workout.
I wake up and go straight to 5-10 minute warmup w/ 3 lightsets and a light jog. I usually workout wearing nothing but my boxers then shower after. But I usually wear shoes and gloves to make it official though, b/c I need the extra gripping. I mentally associate an adrenaline rush when wearing certain gear, so this normalizes progress made.
Its pretty convenient not having to dress up when I workout. Also its convenient not having to worry about working out at night, b/c I usually do it pretty late. You have to do it at least 1 hour before you sleep. Today I did pullups / biceps / upperback.
I started today actually waking up at 6 AM to spend 40 minutes working out at my homegym, and another ~40-50 minutes taking online course work or working on personal projects. Then I go to work. After work (6 PM), I usually go to meetups / take a breather for at least 1 hour, and then do personal project work starting around 8 to 9PM. Bedtime to me starts at 10 PM now, worst case at 11 PM.
Sundays I sleep in though, b/c Saturdays are less predictable, and sometimes I need a hard reset day. When I get really tired and fatigued and don't want to workout, I just do a 1-2 mile jog/run and that resets my cycle
It really is all about winning the first battle of the day. I didn't feel like getting up this morning, but I forced myself too, and didn't hit the snooze button at all.
Mentally you can only handle 2-3 spurts of high productivity in one day. When you workout in the morning, you get a physical high and also a mental high starting the day. It slows down, picks back up again possible mid-day, and again at night to me at least.