The 5am Club

The first few hours of the day are certainly the most powerful ones, right?! At least if you are a morning person like I am. I wanted to share with you that I read a very inspiring book recently. The 5 am club by an author called Robin Sharma. He is basically saying that the way you start your day will have a huge impact on the rest of the day. Sounds logical, doesn’t it?

I have always been a morning person. What gets done in the morning gets done! Robin Sharma wants you to break your glorious morning hour into three 20-minute chunks; 20 minutes for physical exercise, 20 minutes for reflecting, and 20 minutes for personal growth. The concept sounds promising to me! But so far I just do my own thing which means that I try to work on personal projects in the morning and/or that I go outside to get a morning meditation walk done because this is a good Kickstarter to a productive day. But I will try to get that real morning workout done as well which means getting back to doing the DownDog barre workout - yea this one really makes me sweat and I have not done it forever!

Also often I just start my morning routine with housework like cleaning, cooking, and so on. But this is important because I like having my place in order and clean and later on during the day after several hours of working, I often have no energy to get things done. I also noticed that I sleep much better at night when I get up around 5 am. For a long time my waking up time had been 7 am but often I would not sleep through the night, woke up constantly, and be awake for several hours. This has changed ever since I changed my waking up time to 5 am. But who knows, maybe it also has to do with the fact that I started eating oat bran in the morning or maybe it is a combination of both. Whatever, as long as it works and I get better and deeper uninterrupted sleep at night, it is all good.

So here I am now, it is 7 am. I have already finished today’s blog post and will head to the shop around the corner now and then start cooking lunch. And maybe I will also squeeze in my beloved morning walk including the DownDog walking meditation or the barre workout that will make me sweat. Let’s see! For now I am just having fun tweaking my morning routine and I agree with Robin Sharma, the morning hours really are sacred and set you up for the rest of the day.