Your life will change forever the moment that you decide to get up early and really attack your day. Go to bed at the same time every day. Don't use an alarm. Sleep as much as you need, but the second you wake up, you're gonna get yourself going. Let me tell you all about what my life looked like before I started getting out of bed and really getting after it. 1, I was sliding towards depression because my life felt like it was completely out of control. 2, I was wasting 4 to 5 hours a day every day. 3, I spent my time tired all the time because I wasn't going to bed with intention, which means that my body clock was all over the place.

I would go to bed 2 to 3 hours differently every night, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. I had nothing specific to anchor to to what time that I was gonna go to bed, which means that if I just let my body sleep then I was gonna wake up whenever I was gonna wake up. And if I set an alarm, even worse, I was gonna wake up but feel terrible. Now most of the time I had an alarm. So I would just wake up feeling terrible and I would snooze the alarm and snooze the alarm and snooze the alarm and I would constantly, 1, I would still sleep like another hour, but I would do it in 9 minute fits and starts. So you end up starting your day absolutely terribly. You feel like you're on the back foot from the moment you get up because by the time you finally get yourself out of bed, depending on if you're talking about a period when I had a job or when I didn't, which even I can't believe that that's actually true in my lives, but there was life, there was extended periods of time where I didn't have a job and then times where I did. So when I didn't, I would just lay in bed and when I did, I was on the back foot And that was when I really could not get momentum going in my life and I couldn't understand why.

Now from a biological standpoint, I really did not feel good. I was low energy all the time. When you're low energy, you lack motivation. When you lack motivation, then you don't make the changes that you need to make partly because you're not going out and learning the things you need to learn in order to create a framework in your mind that's going to tell you things like what I'm telling you now. Now when I started implementing rules in my life, then 1, I was going to bed on time 9 pm every day like it's a religion. I would wake up when I would wake up without an alarm, so I would actually feel refreshed and then I gave myself only 10 minutes to get out of bed. So imagine going from snoozing for an hour when I had a job or laying in bed 4 to 5 hours if I didn't have a job, to getting all the sleep that I needed, getting up within 10 minutes and having my day structured such that if I was awake Monday through Friday, I was either working or working out. Imagine the amount of momentum that you can create in your life when you act like that.

And so everything changed dramatically once I started putting those rules in life. Now, when I did this, I actually didn't have a job at the time that I put this rule set into place, but I started going to bed at the same time. I started whatever time I woke up, I gave myself 10 minutes to get out of bed and then I would get right to it. Now at the time I had a big goal of writing a screenplay which I ended up accomplishing. I can't remember how long it took me. 4 to 6 months, something like that. And I was like holding this thing. I was like, oh my God.

Like I actually managed to accomplish this. Why? Because I was getting up early. Now what ends up happening, if you're going to bed early, you're gonna sleep somewhere between probably 7 to 9 hours depending on your age, or if you're really going hard after something that's really exciting for you or quite frankly really stressful, might be closer to 6, 6 and a half, which is about where I live. 6 and a half to 7 hours of sleep measured as an average over the course of the year. And so like last night I went to bed at 9, I woke up at 3:30 a. M. Now if you have my rule set, you get up at 3:30 a. M.

By 3:31 you're either working or working out. Now you can imagine that you get a lot done. As I'm recording this now, I think it's like 3:34 p. M. In the afternoon. I've already worked a 12 hour day by the time that I'm recording this and I'm feeling all of my intermittent moments where I'm transitioning from one thing to another, reading, researching, so I am constantly maximizing my time. Now by the time most people woke up, I'd already been working. If they wake up at what, 6 o'clock? I'd already been working for 2 and a half hours.