MBA1202 Is Getting Up Early Really Good For Business? + Free Ride Friday!

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I'm also the co founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online. And in today's episode you will learn is getting up early really good for business? You hear about all these successful people that are early risers that get up at 6 and 5 and even 4am to start their day, to attack the day. We talked about books on the show like the Miracle Morning. That's all about getting up early and seizing the opportunities ahead of you. But is getting up early in the morning the solution for everybody? Does that work for every single business, for every single lifestyle? That's what we discuss in today's episode. Not everybody's life is typical. Some people have to work late at night. Some of us run remote teams and have to communicate with people at different times of the day. We tackle this challenge and discuss is it possible to be successful without getting up early? We get into all that and more in today's episode. So let's get into it. Let's get down to business. They say the early bird gets the worm. But is that really true? Let's talk about the facts. Well, the science says that you do sleep better and you get more restful sleep if you sleep at night. From the studies I've seen, it looks like two hours after sunset is the ideal time to go to bed to get your eight hours in. Now, for most people who live in the Northern hemisphere, especially if they're very north in the Northern hemisphere, sunset can be quite early. It could be four o'clock in the afternoon. Now the study that talks about the sunset, they're talking about having darkness. They say that sleep and darkness really is conducive and helps REM sleep, which allows you to wake up rested. So basically what it's saying is the more hours you can sleep during the night hours, the better. But for most people, this is not a reality we can all just kind of stick to. I'll give you a perfect example. Yesterday, which was Monday for me, I was up until well past midnight because I was running two back to back meetings at 10 and 11 with my team. We have a remote team at Webinar Ninja, so we have a lot of players at different parts of the world in Europe and asia and the U.S. so this is the ideal time for us all to meet. So. So I have to sacrifice and be up late. So I'm really not in bed until maybe one o', clock, which means I have to get up at 9am to get eight hours sleep. 9am is well past the hour that you should be getting up. According to Hal Alrod, Great book, Miracle Morning to really get a lot done during the day. But if I'm going to bed at one, that means from nine to one, I'm really working with a lot of hours There if I'm getting up at 5am I gotta be in bed by 9, meaning those four hours that I got because I was in meetings wouldn't exist. Sometimes life and business is not routine. I can't, you know, go to bed at a certain time because I have to have a meeting or I can't wake up that early because I went to bed late. But at the same time there are days where I have to get up early to attend early meetings, like 5am meetings in the States. So because I run a remote team, because I'm working with different time zones, I don't have the luxury of having this regimented schedule or I wake up a certain time every morning, early in the morning. I also know a lot of best selling authors like Tim Ferriss are night owls. They like to write and do their best work at night. That's when they're most creative, that's when all their creative juices are flowing. They're going to miss out being in the zone if they're in bed by 9. This doesn't discount what Hal Al Raad talks about in his book Miracle Morning or what people recommend. And it's probably good advice to get up early for most people, for most schedules, for most scenarios, but it's not a hard and fast rule. I know some of the most brilliant tech founders and developers are night owls. They love coding at night, they're not early risers and some of them actually work through the night. Now I am a firm believer that you should get quality sleep so you should try to sleep during darkness for I would say most of the week. So, so your weekends and a couple days during the week. So I try to limit my late night meetings as much as possible. I have two late night meetings during the week. Outside of that I'm trying to wake up at a decent time. Now if you have no reason to be up late, if you have no time zone constrictions or things, you have to accommodate for a remote team and you have a wide open schedule and you have all the time in the world to work on your business and you don't have to go to work or anything like that, don't have a, you know, full time or part time job, this is your only thing you're doing. Then getting up early is a good routine. It's actually a really good exercise because things are quieter in the morning you're going to get more done and before lunchtime you're going to get most of the most critical things you need to get done. That day and it's going to give you a sense of accomplishment. This is fantastic and really important. When you're getting started, you want to have some momentum. When you're starting in your business, you want to feel like you're actually getting things done and accomplishing what you need to accomplish so you can actually build upon that. It's critical because if you get in a slump at the start and you're not accomplishing things, you're going to give up, you're going to feel like, ugh, I'm not making progress. And it's going to be very demotivating. This is why the whole concept of the miracle morning is really powerful for people that are getting started. Many people that have served in the military know how effective this is because they get up early in the morning in the military. In fact, I spoke at two different US army bases in the past and one of the things that we did is that we actually went through some of the training with them and that means we started our day really early. I remember getting up at 3:30 so I can make breakfast at 4:00am because our first kind of exercise was at 4:30. I said, wow, these guys and gals have really formed some great habits. When they leave the military, they're going to have a competitive advantage if they ever started a business. Because by lunchtime we felt like, wow, we got so much done in that day. Lunch was around 12:30, so we got eight hours of stuff done by 12:30. So essentially after lunch we could have called it a day and left early or finished a day early and, and got done so much. So I do recommend you do get up early if you need routine, if you need discipline, if you need a regimen, especially if you're doing this entrepreneurship thing for the first time. You're leaving a job that has structure, that has a lot of different things in place to allow you to kind of be successful. Whether it's a time for you to show up to work and leave work and a time card or a desk to go to and people waiting for you, expecting you to work, all that stuff helps you actually get the work done. So having some structure is going to help you at the start. And that's why having an early morning rise, getting the day started early can really help you if you're a solopreneur, if you're starting out with a small business right now as a first time business, thy ticket lady, Jennifer of Coolidge.

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So to wrap up Getting up early is good for business, especially for getting started. But as your business grows, as it adapts, as you start having other challenges, whether it's running a remote team, you may need to adjust your schedule accordingly. Also, take a look at when you are most productive. Everybody's different. Some people are really productive early in the morning. Some people are good mid morning, some people are great after lunch. Some people are very productive at night. One way to track this is to journal. To journal, even just for five minutes. And there's a great app called the five Minute Journal that you can get on your phone that allows you just to journal at the end of the day to take, you know, stock of how you did today and when you were productive and when were you at your best and when you were full of energy. This will help you adjust and create a customized schedule for you and for your strengths. Well, that wraps up today's lesson. Thanks so much for listening. Today's episode's not over though. It's Free Ride Friday. I got to give away a lifetime membership to one of our programs, which is easy course. Let's see who won this week's Free Ride. And the winner is Brian K. Oliver. Brian K. Oliver says so much education in minutes. Five stars. There are so many topics that took me a year to learn that Omar breaks down in minutes, making my education more effective, more efficient and affordable. Love this podcast. Well thank you Brian for that amazing review and you are a Free Eye Friday winner. Your mission is to email me at omar00nba.net so I can hook you up with the lifetime membership to ezcourse. If you want to win a free ride, just leave us an itunes rating and a review and you enter our weekly random draw. Listen in on Friday to see if you want. It's that simple. It's our way to say thanks for leaving us love on itunes. Well, there you have it, guys. Thank you so much for listening. I will check you on Monday, but before I go, I want to leave you with this Sometimes a change of routine can help you break out of old habits and be more productive. If you're having a hard time being productive or getting work done, try something new, like getting up early. Just changing your habits sometimes will change your results. Same thing goes if you change the location of where you work. Working from home. You know, try working in a co working space. Maybe a different environment will put you in a different mood and help your productivity, help you be more focused. So changing things up can help you really improve your productivity. Give it a shot. All right, I'll check you in Monday's episode. I'll see you then. Take care.

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