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Conditions and exclations apply. This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1862. Six tips

for waking up early and crushing it by Joel of 5amjole.com and I'm Justin Malik. Happy

Friday. Welcome to Optimal Living Daily or OLD or old if you like. Where I read blogs

to you for free. It's an award-winning podcast. Thanks to you. And I'll get right into it

and continue optimizing your life. Six tips for waking up early and crushing it by Joel

of 5amjole.com. Getting up early changed my life. And I bet it will change yours too.

But where do you start? How do you stay consistent? Here are some tips that I use to wake up

early each day. My hope is that these will help you too. Whether it's 5am, 6am or even

if you call 8am early, creating rules will help you remain consistent and in control.

Tip number one. Create a reason. Even if it's a small reason. You won't get up if there's

nothing to get up for. Without a good reason, it's very difficult to get up early. Having

a routine or checklist is helpful, but it can also get boring to do the same thing every

morning. When I first started 5amj, here was my morning checklist. Get up, put on coffee,

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