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[English]

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early in my career as a freelancer I was

a late-night worker not not like a

prostitute I would just procrastinate

through the day and so I couldn't put

off my work any longer I'd often be up

past 2:00 a.m. it was until I started

living with my partner Natalie that I

decided to shape my schedule around hers

it's at that point that I fell in love

with early mornings there's something

special about watching the Sun Rise with

a cup of coffee even in a city like Los

Angeles things seem to go quiet in the

morning

well not all the time I usually wake up

between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. but my

schedule fluctuates

I wondered how much more productive

could I be if I force myself to wake up

at 5:00 a.m. every single day for 30

days how much more could I get done how

would it change my life it didn't go as

planned

so I'm gonna be setting up my alarm for

the 30 days of waking up at 5 a.m. how

many hours of sleep do you need each

night we're gonna go with 8 hours so my

plan is to go to bed 9 p.m. every night

let's see how this works out getting a

bed by 9 p.m. isn't isn't a problem I'm

getting kind of old anyway and that and

I for a long time we're going to bed

around 9 o'clock so this is nothing new

waking up early isn't an excuse to

neglect sleep the research is clear the

serious consequences of getting less

than 7 hours of sleep per night is

severe according to Matthew Walker's

best-selling book why we sleep the

shorter you sleep the shorter your

lifespan the old maxim I'll sleep when

I'm dead is therefore unfortunate adopt

this mindset and you will be dead sooner

and the quality of that shorter life

will be worse the real challenge here

isn't waking up at 5:00 a.m. it's

getting 8 hours of sleep

there was an adjustment period for the

first week it was a bit like jet lag and

my sleep quality wasn't the greatest for

the first couple of nights I had to get

used to going to bed at a different time

than that but after a couple days I felt

a lot more like myself and my morning

started to get a lot more productive

then I had to deal with the real jet lag

I'm heading home to New Jersey which is

three-hour time difference so just as I

finally got adjusted to these early

mornings now I'm gonna have to

completely reset this is probably going

to be the biggest test so far

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what's that

yeah LAX that's right Alaska Airlines I

never would leave an apartment with a

banana as is a rule of mine never leave

an apartment with no it's not because

then you have the skin then you have to

get rid of and then you just hold onto

it for 45 minutes

exactly 45 I'm having a dilemma there's

nowhere to sleep I'm supposed to be

sleeping on that couch right there Oh

perfect thank you mom appreciate it

I see so it's just past 11:00 now

finally get into bed I'm getting no

sleep tonight if there's one thing I've

learned about habit change it's that

life gets in the way

when you least expect it life will punch

you in the face and that's what happened

with my trip home

multiple late nights hanging out with my

family combined with jet lag

and I struggled to get quality sleep so

it's just past 9:00 right now and this

is I just found out that this is

daylight savings time it's been a long

time since I've experienced sleep

deprivation but that night in particular

hit me hard over my first two days in

New Jersey I got a total of nine hours

of sleep and it completely changed my

personality

very few times very few times it's that

low you weren't just upset and you were

so frustrated I decided to catch up with

my sleep and snooze past 5:00 a.m. two

times during the trip and this is what

happens to me all the time when I try to

wake up early or if I try to build a

habit I try to start exercising

eventually something's gonna happen

you're gonna get sick you're gonna

travel you're gonna go on vacation and

you're gonna get jet lag and you're not

gonna be able to keep up with the same

exact routine that you've been trying to

build this was just a reminder that I

need to put my health and my wellness

first above this religious dedication to

an arbitrary challenge after getting

back to LA it took another week until I

started to get into a rhythm again and

travel wasn't completely to blame

so finally after about 20 days of waking

up at 5:00 a.m. and after a really

unproductive week one of the most

unproductive weeks that I've had in a

while I started to build a bit of a

morning routine here at 5:00 a.m. that

works for me and a part of that is by

5:30 a.m. I'm on my way to go to the gym

to get a workout in and I found that

since the Sun at least right now it

doesn't rise until 7 a.m. it's really

difficult for me to feel motivated to

feel like I have the energy to do really

creative work first thing in the morning

so if I go to the gym I can get more

energy I feel good I've gotten something

personal for myself done at the

beginning of the day and then by the

time I get home and shower around then

the sun's starting to come up and I can

make a cup of coffee and I'm ready to

actually get to work so it turns out

that waking up at 5:00 a.m. every day

did change my life it just happened to

be in a negative way well I did have

about 7 hours and 53 minutes in bed

every night I didn't get 8 hours of

sleep

in fact it usually takes me about 30

minutes to get to sleep so I probably

got much less than I needed I noticed

that my energy levels weren't as high as

normal and while I did eventually put

together a routine that worked for me

going to the gym in the morning and then

eventually getting to work by 7 a.m. I

did I wasn't any more productive than I

normally am and there was just too much

that I sacrificed you can you can ask

Natalie I mean she sacrificed a little

bit too I thought I was complete bull

I'm exhausted

why are you exhausted because

been waking me up for him every morning

I did not opt into this challenge next

month with meditation

yes I'm rather excited to do that with

you this was another challenge I opted

into I was forced into one of the things

that I love most about running my own

business is having a flexible schedule

I'm glad that I experimented with this

ridiculously strict 30-day challenge

because I know that I'm actually not

missing out on anything and I'm excited

to get back to my regular routine of

waking up between 6 or 7 a.m. because

well life can get in the way thanks for

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
work /wɜːrk/ A1	verb - to perform a job noun - activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result
sleep /sliːp/ A1	verb - to be in a state of rest noun - a condition of body and mind that typically recurs for several hours every night
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter
day /deɪ/ A1	noun - each of the twenty-four-hour periods, especially from midnight to the following midnight
early /ˈɜːrli/ A2	adjective - happening or done before the usual or expected time
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
routine /ruːˈtiːn/ B1	noun - a sequence of actions regularly followed
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - to make or become different
challenge /ˈtʃælɪndʒ/ B1	noun - a task or situation that tests someone's abilities verb - to dispute the truth or validity of
health /helθ/ A2	noun - the state of being free from illness or injury
strict /strɪkt/ B2	adjective - demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed
productive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ B2	adjective - producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities
flexible /ˈfleksəbl/ B2	adjective - capable of bending easily without breaking
experiment /ɪkˈsperɪment/ B2	verb - perform a scientific procedure, especially in a laboratory, to determine or demonstrate something noun - a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact
tired /ˈtaɪərd/ A2	adjective - in need of sleep or rest