Why you should get up early and the reason is not what you might think

Fuck, early productivity risers.

To all those CEOs, influencers, and fitness well-being coaches. I do not want to get up early and immediately start working.

Every time I get on social media or every January, I get nothing but fitness, finance, and lifestyle gurus. People that are the new pyramid scheme, do what I do and get rich, which is teaching people how to sell courses about selling courses. I digress. My point is that I fucking hate that toxic get up early, grind, hustle culture. And here is why:

We are all different. Some of us, like myself, don't want to run a company or be the go, go, go person. Always on, always productive, busy, making that green. I want to live my life, and be as happy and content as can be in this current environment or social structure we are stuck in.

I get up early because I want to use up all my fresh, good early morning energy on myself, and my employer can have the leftovers.

The reason

I suggest you get up early, not for someone else, but for yourself. You might have been like me, staying up late, doom-scrolling, trying to get as many hours to yourself before having to go to sleep and do it all over again. The endless grind, and dreading getting up the next morning. Like most of us, my only escape was bedtime procrastination.

I did this for half a year, and it started to affect me negatively. I was more tired throughout the day. I started to get depressed, and my energy levels were so low. I never exercised anymore; I never cooked; it was always takeaways. I had little to no time to myself except for the late hours at night before I went to bed. I was staying up to 1 am - 3 am to compensate, and it was literally killing me slowly. So I flipped it.

I started getting up early instead. I would go to bed early and get up at 5 am every morning. And I would spend that time on myself. I figured instead of having low energy for my personal leisure time, I would do it in the morning instead, and my employer would get the leftover energy.

What happened I made the flip

I found that flipping this bedtime procrastination into early morning procrastination was a game changer.

I was spending more time on breakfast; I was no longer rushing to work. I had time to read a book, write, and now I was exercising again. My life did a complete 180°; literally, instead of being tired in the evening, I was awake in the mornings.

Now don't get me wrong; I was so tired at the end of the day, I would be yawning at work. And my energy levels were depleted near the end of my working hours. But you know what, good, that just means it was working. I was using up all my good energy on myself, and my employer was getting the shitty leftovers in my empty cup.

Life changing, no joke

Now all those influencers will say that is the whole point. But I refute that remark.

In rebuttal, they are getting up to be productive; I'm getting up for leisure. To relax in the morning, to take my time, and spend it doing what I want. But I'm still getting my 8 hours of sleep don't get this wrong; that is something I will not skip out on getting anymore. Originally, when I was bedtime procrastination, I was going to bed at 1-3 am in the morning and getting up at 7 am. That was only 6 to 4 hours of sleep each night.

I can't stress this enough: get 7-8 hours of sleep minimal each night, and morning procrastination will switch up your life completely and for the better.

Getting up early does change one's life, just not how you thought it would.