107: Why I Wake Up Every Morning at 4:30AM
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
An absolutely essential one for this week. I discuss the benefits of waking up early as a life hack, based on my personal experience of getting up at 4:30AM daily. This episode covers the importance of establishing nighttime and morning routines, the significance of sleep, and overcoming various life challenges, including balancing family, business, and personal goals. It also stresses the value of front-loading your day, time management, and habit stacking to achieve productivity and success.
CHAPTERS
00:49 The Importance of Sleep
04:43 The Evolution of My Sleep Schedule
10:04 Family Dinner and Evening Routine
16:16 Nighttime Routine and Sleep Preparation
21:13 Morning Routine and Waking Up Early
27:46 Creating Time and Space in the Morning
29:50 Balancing Responsibilities and Uncertainty
34:57 The Power of Habit Stacking
41:36 The Benefits of Waking Up Early
46:44 How to Start Waking Up Early
52:06 Front Loading Your Day for Success
55:55 Concluding Thoughts on Waking Up Early
MENTONS:
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys, and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | Today I'm talking all about why waking up early is a life hack. |
| 0:16.6 | I wake up at 4.30 a.m. seven days a week. |
| 0:24.6 | I want to talk about why I want to talk about why. I want to talk about the how and why I truly believe that waking up early is one of the greatest life hacks that you can |
| 0:35.0 | learn, implement, adopt, and make it a habit, make it a routine. It can change your life. |
| 0:46.4 | Like I said, I wake up at 4.30 a.m. every single day, every single day. And I have been for years now. |
| 0:56.6 | But before we dive into that, I want to make it very clear of what this message is not. This is not an anti-sleep message. |
| 1:06.0 | I am not promoting sleeping less. I am not saying that sleeping is bad. |
| 1:12.9 | I think sleep is one of the greatest things you can implement, |
| 1:16.4 | not implement, we all implement sleep, |
| 1:17.9 | but one of the greatest things you can value and prioritize in your life. |
| 1:26.9 | Prioritizing sleep can also change your life, just in the same way that waking up early can change your life. There should be and probably will be a part two to this episode that is more sleep as a life hack. While waking up early as a life hack, so is more sleep. |
| 1:47.3 | Again, this is not anti-sleep. But the reality is, you know, I am a business owner. I am a husband. |
| 1:56.8 | I am a father to two young children. My son is five months old. |
| 2:01.4 | My daughter is two and a half years old. |
| 2:03.4 | The reality is that in different seasons in chapters of life, we require focus. |
| 2:11.0 | We have to decide where and what we spend our time on doing, |
| 2:18.5 | we have to be resourceful, |
| 2:21.0 | and there are tradeoffs, |
| 2:23.5 | there are opportunity costs to where we decide to spend our time |
| 2:29.2 | on what, |
| 2:30.9 | doing what, |
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