Success

You Don’t Need to Wake Up Early to Be Successful

The self-help world seems to be on a crusade of trying to convince everybody that we should all start waking up early. There is evidence to suggest that these assertions are not without merit. However, in my own experience, and people I am close with, waking up later is typically the way to go.

The basic argument says that by waking up early you get a jump on the day. There’s something powerful about being up before everyone else. If you work a traditional job that requires you to be present at 8 or 9am, waking up at 5 am can give you time to enjoy your morning, make breakfast, read the news, work out, and get in the right mind frame to attack your day.

If you search “Wake up early” you get all sorts of gurus and content creators claiming the benefits of waking up early and explaining how to do it. A simple search on YouTube gets you an endless scroll of videos about how to wake up early and why you should wake up early.

The average American reports getting about 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night. In order to to wake up at 5am, you have to get to sleep by 9:30pm in order to get enough sleep. And not be in bed…