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5AM Morning Routines Don’t Impress Me
The time you wake up matters less than what you do with your time while you’re awake.
I see it all the time—it being this notion that early mornings are the key to success.
You know what I mean?
I mean… The narrative that five o’clock in the morning is a magical hour that yields utmost productivity can be found in all the corners of nearly every online space.
It’s written across the foreheads of fitness gurus.
The self-improvement industry plasters it within the headlines of numerous articles.
Academia insists that research rests for no one — therefore, students and professors alike should not sleep past their early-as-ever alarms either.
The list goes on and on and on and on…
Except I cannot for the life of me figure out why that is, despite being no stranger to the grind of rising and shining as early as possible myself.
What is that about?
And will the sentiment ever go away?
Back in my barista days, my alarm clock would ring, ring, ring at five in the morning most days. Prior to becoming a working woman, I attended a high school three hours away from where I lived, prompting me to awaken…
