How to be more disciplined than 99% of ppl

Don't wake up early, do this instead ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Recently I've been trying to wake up at 5am before my kids. But when my [Whoop strap]( alarm starts buzzing at 5am it is a battle royale. I'm always shocked at the endless excuses I can come up with for staying in bed. That is, until I started thinking differently about the discipline of waking up early. This is how you can be better than 99% of other people at discipline (without killing yourself in the process)... The discipline is NOT to wake up at 5am. That's hard. The discipline is to be in bed by 8:30pm. Don't wake up early. Go to bed early. If I'm in bed by 8:30pm, waking up at 5am ain't nothin'. I feel rested and energized in the morning. If you're a parent, you know how crazy the end of the day is. There's dinner, then clean up, then bath time, then jammies and bedtime stories. By 7 or 7:30pm (if you're lucky - some kids don't go to sleep until later) you're exhausted but craving some "me" time. For most of us that means turning to Netflix or similar. And that typically means you'll play the "one more episode" game and find yourself up late. That said, it's a whole lot easier to make the decision to go to bed early, when you know you'll have that early morning "me" time. And it's easier to be disciplined to simply get into bed at 8:30pm than it is to pull yourself out of bed at 5am. Here are a few other things I've been thinking about (many of them I'm sure you've heard before): - It's NOT about discipline to eat healthy foods... but discipline to only have healthy foods in your fridge and pantry. Grocery store discipline, not healthy eating discipline. - It's NOT about discipline to not look at your phone when you're trying to work... it's discipline to leave the phone in the other room. - It's NOT about discipline to go for a walk each day. It's discipline to listen to a business or self-improvement podcast for 30 minutes a day. You just so happen to walk while you listen. - It's NOT *fully* about the discipline to write an email. It's about having the discipline to write a second email after you've written the first. Do you have any good "discipline flips" you can think of? Let me know. Cheers! - Derek Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( CopyHour.com, 340 S LEMON AVE, 5007, WALNUT, CA 91789