Use This ‘5 Step 5 AM Road Map’ To Wake Up At 5 AM Every Day.

I assume you’re reading this because you either want to start waking up at five am, or you have tried it before and couldn’t. That’s what this article will help you with today. I want to talk about waking up earlier and how you can do it. But first, let’s start with why you should.

Why 5 AM?

The feeling you get after consistently waking up at 5 am is a feeling of pride in yourself. 5 am really just serves as a peaceful time since nobody is awake and it is usually dark outside. It sort of just feels more tranquil. You have more time, your productivity goes up, and you get to awaken before anyone else. Once you experience it, you’ll realize that deep down it feels so good.

No, I am not going to say that you should wake up at 5 am every day because that is how you become successful. I am not saying that at all. But, what it will do is create a new sense of yourself. From experience, waking up at 5 am daily allows you to get in tune with yourself more. You get to get out of your comfort zone, and getting out of your comfort zone is so important for growth.

Reverse Engineering

With waking up earlier, you have to take a step back to the night before. The problem most people have with waking up at 5 am is a lack of sleep, and I will touch on that later. Most people just set an alarm for 5 am with hopes that they don’t hit snooze when they wake up. But guess what? You wake up the next morning and make all of the excuses in the world for why you should go back to sleep. You quite literally say to yourself “fuck this.”

So, in terms of the night before, start off by setting a bedtime alarm. With waking up at 5 am, you ideally want to be in bed around 9 pm. I know this sounds like an absurd time to go to sleep but you will get the hang of it. I would actually recommend setting an alarm for 8 pm. This is so you can do things to actually prepare yourself for waking up at 5 am the next day.

Set your alarm for 8 pm so you can do simple bedtime activities like showering, brushing your teeth, and writing your goals for the next day. Eliminate activities that heavily stimulate the brain. What this means is at 8 pm, don’t play video games, social media, and other things that require a lot of mental stimulation. You want to eliminate things like this because that stimulation in your brain makes it harder to fall asleep.

Along with this, stop looking at screens in that hour before sleeping. I say this because most screens radiate “blue light,” and this blue light can make it harder to sleep. This is because this blue light blocks the receptors in your brain that tell it to rest. At the very least, turn on a night mode in your screens, or some other way for your screen to emit warm light.

I mentioned sleep earlier, but I want to touch a bit more on it. The truth is that sleep is more important than you think. The reason it is recommended to get 8 hours of sleep is because your brain recovers during sleep in cycles. The completion of all these cycles takes around 8 hours, and without the completion of all the cycles you may feel tired. Getting 8 hours of sleep will make it a lot easier for you to get out of bed upon awakening.

The Great Awakening

Now, let’s focus on actually waking up at 5 am. The thing with waking up this early is that you will more than likely wake up and not want to get up. Of course, the preparation you went through before makes it easier, but that doesn’t stop the excuses we habitually think when that annoying alarm goes off at 5 am.

What you need to do as soon as you wake up is quite literally jump out of bed. Get out of bed as soon as you wake up. A good way to do this is to put your alarm or phone in a place where you need to get up and walk to it to turn the alarm off. The simple idea is to just get straight out of bed as soon as you wake up.

Doing this will make it to where the excuses you tend to make won’t even matter. You are already up. But, you must be aware that you will probably be tired and want to go back to sleep. This is where your willpower must come in. Let the thoughts of sleep and excuses run through your mind, but realize that they are not a part of you. The fact that you are aware of them means that it isn’t you. Don’t let your mind manipulate itself into going back to bed.

Once you are up, go brush your teeth. Take a shower. Do something that makes waking up at 5 am worth-while. What I used to do, and what most people want to wake up earlier for, is go to the gym. It would be easy for me once I got up and pushed past my excuses because I was going to the gym. I couldn’t sleep if I wanted to. I was at the gym.

Your Intentions

The final thing I want to touch on is that you need to have your intentions right for this to happen. Most people think “I hope I actually get up tomorrow.” That is the wrong approach because you are setting yourself up for failure. You’re half committing, leaving one foot in and one foot out. What you need to do is tell yourself you’re going to get up tomorrow no matter what, and mean it with intent. You need to actually intend for yourself to wake up early.

Your 5 Step 5 am Road Map

Set up the night before:
Set alarm for 1 hour before bed
No social media or brain stimulating activities before bed
No blue light before bed

Intend to actually wake up:
Tell yourself you will
Fully commit

Get 8 hours of sleep:
Set alarm for 8pm to prepare for bed
Be asleep by 9pm

Jump straight out of bed:
Ignore the excuses
Fight the urge to go back

Do something as soon as you’re up:
Brush your teeth, or
Take a shower, or
Go to the gym

Now that you have this roadmap to getting up at 5 am, use these ideas to your advantage. Nevertheless, thank you for taking your time to read and apply these to bettering yourself. You can do it, I know you can. Use what you’ve just learned and intend on actually getting up at 5 am. Stay blessed, and most importantly, evolve.