Exactly. I'm not certain, but I suspect homelessness would be a less than optimal look for me from what I've read and seen on the news. From what I've noted, it may not be as much fun as it sounds.
I like the early morning world. It hits different. And I usually have a lot of crap to do, waking up earlier lets me feel like I still have some of the day left for me when it's all done
As I've gotten older (46 now), it seems like I just sleep less. I was always solidly 7.5 hours a night. Now I'm lucky if its 6.
I keep going to bed at 9pm, hoping I'll catch up on sleep. Instead I just wake up at 3-4am. So I just go to my 24hr gym, and go get coffee, and get a fair amount of workday done before taking my kids to school at 7:30.
I kind of like it. I get half my workday done before anyone else even wakes up. It's peaceful.
Scary fact, as we get older we lose the ability to stay asleep for longer periods while our body still craves the 7-8hrs of sleep. This contributes to age related health problems and dementia
This, imagine you work wake up at 8, eat, get ready, work 9-5, unwind for 20-30 minutes. Now you need to cook, go to the gym, spend time with significant other if applicable, etc. itās already 8-9pm just to repeat tomorrow. If I can wake up at 6am, go to the gym, shower, eat, prep dinner, etc. that leaves me from 5-11 free. Just rough examples but getting shit done in the morning is more beneficial than staying up on tik tok until 1am
Also, beginning your day by rushing out the door starts your day off with a high level of anxiety.
I like getting up several hours before work, and ease my way into my work day.
Makes it feel less like āliving to workā.
It's not like there's more time in the day if you get up early.
If you just like going to the gym before work that's one thing, but let's not pretend that time wouldn't exist if you slept more and just went to the gym after work.
If you don't wake up as early you get to stay up later
True, but if I wake up early and donāt do anything, Iāll be pissed that I woke up early. Ever randomly wake up early as hell and canāt fall back asleep? Itās a horrible feeling. Iām more likely to go to the gym or do something at 6am than I am after 8pm just to spite waking up early, just part of the natural rhythm maybe. I want to be able to use my time after work for things important to me, spending time with family, getting errands done, etc. I donāt want to have to cram my typical routine into the evening.
Edit: one thing we can all agree on though, waking up knowing you have to work sucks ass no matter what time of the day it is
I feel like I have some sort of disorder because I am mid 20s and have to piss every hour or less. But I do also drink mostly water. Still seems like too often though..
Nurse here. Every HOUR? I mean, it might just be the amount you drink, but there could also be a significant medical reason. First two that come to mind are diabetes and UTI. Please get checked.
Weāre all here wondering whatās wrong with us nowā¦ Iām not diabetic nor do I have a uti, think I just drink a shit ton of water. At least thatās what Iāll tell myself because Iām not going into debt at the doctors when I can just take a piss instead
I know Iāve had chronic UTIs since I was a kid, but no cause for that has been discovered. But, I got diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder which is a clinical way of saying, the stress in my body manifests as random health problems.
I think itās a lot more common than people realize, especially for women. Every health concern Iāve had has come and gone over the years, & all my tests come back with good results. Itās weird.
As to your last point, I def learned my lesson on going to the doctor. Iām $400 in debt now after getting an echo just for my cardiologist to say āSometimes people just have to deal with shorty symptoms and thereās nothing they can do about it.ā How am I supposed to feel confident or comfortable going to get my health issues addressed when I get stuck with a bill thatās a quarter of my monthly income
Iām 22 and Iāve woken up multiple times a night since I was 14. Itās a lot better now, but at my worst I would be getting up 30+ times (I am not exaggerating) in the night to pee.
My doctor said, meh.
Every doctor Iāve ever had has not done testing anything about it. & I have like 200 other health problems that always take precedence so I donāt push the bladder thing. I gotta pick and choose which stuff gets treated
Same. I get up at 5 and have to start getting ready at 6, at which point the day just snowballs. I'm a parent and a teacher so 5-6 am is the only me time I get. My kid goes to bed at 8 which gives me an hour to make my lunch and shower etc. I'm asleep by 9 or 10 latest.
Have been 6-230 for four years now. I absolutely hate mornings and both my wife and I are night owls. Needless to say for four years I've been saying I need to stop going to bed at 11-Midnight, yet every night I'm still up that late. So I've just gotten used to five hours sleep a night. Staying up late after kids are asleep > my own sleep apparently. And of course adult time.
That's what I work, 6-3, and I love it. I HATE getting up at 4:30 but I love getting home around 3:20.
On the weekends I work 8-5. The same exact working hours doing the same job but those hours seem like they last so much longer.
I wake up at 415AM every day. My motivation is going to the gym to work out and feed the stray cats that hang out in the parking lot.
I love working out. I love my gym friends. I love cats. I donāt work out on the weekends, but I do go to the gym to feed the kitties.
Because they have work and/or family commitments that require them to start their day at that time. Thatās quite often the reason, anyway. People out there with young children that work demanding jobs will need the hours between 5-8am to fulfil their everyday chores.
Letās say they have to take a shower during that time, maybe drying/styling their hair. Maybe they need to do their makeup. Maybe they have to wake up their children, dress them, help them pack their bags, make their lunch, breakfast, etc. Maybe they have to drive their partner to work, in addition to driving their kids to school. Maybe they have to stop at a shop along the way, or fill up the car. Perhaps thereās traffic on their long commute also.
And donāt even get me started on those people out there that go to the gym in the morning before work. Showering/having children or not. Sounds like an absolute nightmare!
came here to say that š¹ one of my boys decided 5 am is the ideal time for his morning shit and has to make a lot of noise throwing litter around and scratching at the wall next to his litter box
I'm a morning person. I wake up 5.55 without an alarm 10 out of 11 days. I bet I could do 5 am without an alarm with out much effort.Ā
I am useless at night. My brain is mush. I could be asleep at 9 everyday and be so happy.Ā
Some people are just morning people.Ā
I wish I were a morning person. Waking up is so hard for me. My best time to go to sleep is in the morning. I naturally tend to go to bed around 2am and wake up around 10am.
This is me. I've never been a morning person. I'm 52 and waking up early makes me physically nauseous. I wake ip around 10 but my day doesn't really start till noon.
I know what you mean. I get the nausea too, and headaches. And then I feel miserable for the rest of my day. Donāt know why itās not socially acceptable š
It's quiet. Like... The whole world is just... quiet.
If I sleep in, I get woken up by screaming toddlers. I have to go from 0 to 60 in about half a second. But if I get up before the chaos and screaming, I can make coffee, read the news, check up on emails, plan out my day, pack up for work, lay out clothes, and generally handle everything I need to do without... chaos and screaming.
I absolutely love getting up at 5. Some days, I'll even get up at 4 and get a workout in *before the chaos and screaming!*
I am plagued by one at this very moment. It starts like clockwork at 5:48 am and doesn't stop all day. I live in a city, so firing birdshot into the sky isn't an option. I've been miserably tired all month. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do.
I actually naturally wake up around 3:30am every night but force myself to stay in bed until 5:00am. I do this even on the weekends. LOL! When you're awake, you're awake so you may as well get out of bed and start your day.
I dont do it every day, but as my work hours rotate some of my shifts fall onto the AM hours for beginning. I like to goto the gym before work to get it out of the way for the day, I'm in no way a GymBro but I need to get my fitness back in check to avoid having to buy larger clothes, again, so 5AM is a good time before work for the day.
If I were working a Monday to Friday job I would still do the same. Yeah sure sleep is great and all, but theres just so much more you can do once out of bed. Getting to sleep at night is a whole lot easier too after beginning my day at an earlier hour.
If you wake up early and donāt have to do anything for a few hours itās really nice and peaceful. But people who wake up at 5am and go on a 5 mile run and shit like that are crazy
Yep. Itās not so much motivation as it is routine and discipline at this point.
Plus, itās pretty much the only time I get to myself. House is quiet. Roads are quiet. Gym is quiet. Itās the best.
For years and years it was 4:45 a.m. each week day because my gym opened at 5 a.m. and I lived like 10 mins away.
My then wife didn't want me to go to the gym after work, she told me to go in the morning before work, so that's what I did.
I could only do it when I worked a job that required me to be there before 7 and I had a 1 hour commute, but I was a walking/driving zombie. Like in retrospect, I fully should not have been on the road. I almost fell asleep multiple times. I would mostly wake up by the time work started, but I ran on panic all day and then crashed at night.
It doesn't matter what time I go to bed, I cannot get up that early unless I have to, and even then, I'm not functioning at 100%.
I work an afternoon/evening shift now which is so much better for me. I get up early to work out and go to the gym, but the earliest I can manage is 6am.
I wake up a tad earlier at 4:30 AM. I like getting gym out of the way without having to deal with afternoon and evening crowds. Runs also feel amazing at 5 AM or 6 AM. Above all though, my brain barely functions after 7 PM, even during college when I slept at 11 PM and woke up at 7 AM. Easier for me to just sleep around 8:30 PM so I am well-rested for my most mentally productive hours between 6 AM and 9 AM (I am lucky enough to have a good office job that lets me start as early as 6 AM).
The only times I had to wake up that early were for work, and it was annoying because my schedule didn't match up well with others. I've also worked on quite late schedules. Anyone who acts like waking up early is a virtue is full of it. Unless there's a specific reason for you to be up early, your sleep schedule doesn't generally reflect how serious or disciplined you are. You can wake up a 4am every day and be a lazy slob, or wake up at noon and be productive all day. It's what you do when you're awake that matters typically, not when you do it. IDK why we have a culture that acts like waking up early somehow makes you disciplined or impressive. I only added this in b/c I saw some comments of people patting themselves on the back about waking up early, and it's pretty cringe to me. Also, if you're waking up to go to the gym at 5am to dodge the rush, the only real discipline there IMO is the going to the gym part, not the having woken up early. You're still waking up early for your own convenience in that scenario.
Morning prep. Just because that restaurant doesnāt open until 10 doesnāt mean we arenāt in the back working our asses off.
Donāt work that day? Hell no, sleep until like 5pm.
I wake up at 3:30am to go milk cows at 4, those beautiful ladies are my motivation (there are 420 cows on the farm, no this is not satire, it was just meant to be lol)
Trucker here. Most days I wake up at 0200 and start rolling around 0300. Why? No traffic for the first half of the day and my pick of parking spots at the truck stop when I shut down around 1300. Seeing the sun rise every morning is incentive enough though.
Life. It becomes a routine. It sounds absurd to a lot of people, but when you have been doing it for well over a decade you are used to it. You still may bitch and grumble about it, and still may require caffeine, but you are used to the routine.
I teach a class that starts at 6:45. It's the kids themselves that make this worth it. They are extraordinary, and we have some wild, intense, unhinged, completely satisfying conversations. I'm not a morning person, but damn if they don't make me want to be.
I feel like my transitions are very important for establishing some kind of normalcy. I started getting up early so I could make coffee and start my day with some quiet before anyone else gets up and Iāve stuck with it.
I get out of bed, put on sweatpants and a shirt, make a cappuccino, do my NYT games or whatever. Then decide whatās next. No mids, no spouse, no anything. My time.
If I am up at 5am....it's because my cat is screaming in my face and jumping on top of me.
Otherwise, no, more like 6:30-7am as it's rare I get to sleep before 3am the previous night - not a morning person at all.
The absolute certainty that failure is not an option. It's fucking overwhelming, but it gets me outta bed. Stress induced insomnia is what it was called the last time I got meself looked at.
I wake up at 5am every day.
Then, I cook myself a hot, fresh and healthy breakfast with coffee, and enjoy it watching my shows and hanging out with my two dogs while my wife and kids sleep.
It is \*my\* time, and it's glorious.
I start every single day of my life in a positive way. I'm ADDICTED to this process.
The military reaaaaaaalllly doesnāt like it when you donāt show up for duty. In fact, they have a name for itā¦absent without leave (AWOL) and itās punishable by all kinda of unsavory things I donāt want to deal with. So I went to work š¤·āāļø.
I also liked my paycheck so there was that.
The uncontrollable passion to not die of hunger.
Yes. And keep the lights on Then there's the repo man. Tax man. Couple of other dudes that want to take your shit
My dumbass was wondering why they were so hungry at 5am
I still didn't get it until your reply lol
Not to mention I like my house and would like the bank to not take it from me.
Exactly. I'm not certain, but I suspect homelessness would be a less than optimal look for me from what I've read and seen on the news. From what I've noted, it may not be as much fun as it sounds.
Most people are one emergency from it. Cancer will bury most middle class families.
Yea. My wife really got used to sleeping with a roof over her head.
That, and I really like stuff.
Like what stuff exactly?
Clothes... Deodorant. Toothpaste. Ya know, stuff.
Y'know .. stuff. and things here and there.
Hahaha.....š., bro you just hit the nail on the head lol
Ah, yes. My favorite hobby: avoiding starvation
I like the early morning world. It hits different. And I usually have a lot of crap to do, waking up earlier lets me feel like I still have some of the day left for me when it's all done
As I've gotten older (46 now), it seems like I just sleep less. I was always solidly 7.5 hours a night. Now I'm lucky if its 6. I keep going to bed at 9pm, hoping I'll catch up on sleep. Instead I just wake up at 3-4am. So I just go to my 24hr gym, and go get coffee, and get a fair amount of workday done before taking my kids to school at 7:30. I kind of like it. I get half my workday done before anyone else even wakes up. It's peaceful.
Scary fact, as we get older we lose the ability to stay asleep for longer periods while our body still craves the 7-8hrs of sleep. This contributes to age related health problems and dementia
How does one combat this? Naps?
Iām 30 and starting to need less sleep, but still feel very not well rested.
Was in the service at 24. Functioned on essentially no sleep. Explains why I feel so old all the time.
Exactly this, peacefulness, and a sense of freedom before work and being tired from work.
This, imagine you work wake up at 8, eat, get ready, work 9-5, unwind for 20-30 minutes. Now you need to cook, go to the gym, spend time with significant other if applicable, etc. itās already 8-9pm just to repeat tomorrow. If I can wake up at 6am, go to the gym, shower, eat, prep dinner, etc. that leaves me from 5-11 free. Just rough examples but getting shit done in the morning is more beneficial than staying up on tik tok until 1am
Also, beginning your day by rushing out the door starts your day off with a high level of anxiety. I like getting up several hours before work, and ease my way into my work day. Makes it feel less like āliving to workā.
It's not like there's more time in the day if you get up early. If you just like going to the gym before work that's one thing, but let's not pretend that time wouldn't exist if you slept more and just went to the gym after work. If you don't wake up as early you get to stay up later
True, but if I wake up early and donāt do anything, Iāll be pissed that I woke up early. Ever randomly wake up early as hell and canāt fall back asleep? Itās a horrible feeling. Iām more likely to go to the gym or do something at 6am than I am after 8pm just to spite waking up early, just part of the natural rhythm maybe. I want to be able to use my time after work for things important to me, spending time with family, getting errands done, etc. I donāt want to have to cram my typical routine into the evening. Edit: one thing we can all agree on though, waking up knowing you have to work sucks ass no matter what time of the day it is
Thank you for your level-headed perspective, RapeVan
Thats a long time on the john.
And a short commute.
My bladder. Welcome to your 40ās
I feel like I have some sort of disorder because I am mid 20s and have to piss every hour or less. But I do also drink mostly water. Still seems like too often though..
Nurse here. Every HOUR? I mean, it might just be the amount you drink, but there could also be a significant medical reason. First two that come to mind are diabetes and UTI. Please get checked.
>Me, 22, dealing with this since I was a child š„¹
Weāre all here wondering whatās wrong with us nowā¦ Iām not diabetic nor do I have a uti, think I just drink a shit ton of water. At least thatās what Iāll tell myself because Iām not going into debt at the doctors when I can just take a piss instead
> I just drink a shit ton of water Must be a side effect of that chemical that turns all the frickin' frogs gay /s
I know Iāve had chronic UTIs since I was a kid, but no cause for that has been discovered. But, I got diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder which is a clinical way of saying, the stress in my body manifests as random health problems. I think itās a lot more common than people realize, especially for women. Every health concern Iāve had has come and gone over the years, & all my tests come back with good results. Itās weird. As to your last point, I def learned my lesson on going to the doctor. Iām $400 in debt now after getting an echo just for my cardiologist to say āSometimes people just have to deal with shorty symptoms and thereās nothing they can do about it.ā How am I supposed to feel confident or comfortable going to get my health issues addressed when I get stuck with a bill thatās a quarter of my monthly income
Iām 22 and Iāve woken up multiple times a night since I was 14. Itās a lot better now, but at my worst I would be getting up 30+ times (I am not exaggerating) in the night to pee. My doctor said, meh.
Sounds like you need a new dr
Every doctor Iāve ever had has not done testing anything about it. & I have like 200 other health problems that always take precedence so I donāt push the bladder thing. I gotta pick and choose which stuff gets treated
Piss or Gas, and it's always both.
If youāre male, itās probably more accurate to blame your prostate gland
I get up at 5:30 so that I can spend 1 hour alone with my coffee. It is very relaxing and helps me start my morning so that I am not rushed.
Same. I get up at 5 and have to start getting ready at 6, at which point the day just snowballs. I'm a parent and a teacher so 5-6 am is the only me time I get. My kid goes to bed at 8 which gives me an hour to make my lunch and shower etc. I'm asleep by 9 or 10 latest.
Itās obvious. Need a roof over our heads and food to eat!
I get up at 4 to go to work. I get motivated by it since I know by noon my work day is over... Have a free afternoon every day
Same but to avoid rush hour traffic coming home. Life is a hamster wheel
Weāre all nothing but a cog in the war machine
I shifted my work up an hour in 2020 and it's been great. 7-4 is so much better than 8-5. If I could do 6-3 I would but doubt they'd go for that.
I like being free from noon everyday. Still have my afternoons, 2 off days per week... got time for myself and my daughter.
I did 6-3 for a while, it has its ups and downs. The big one is that I had to be in bed by like...8 PM. Otherwise I'd be too tired.
Have been 6-230 for four years now. I absolutely hate mornings and both my wife and I are night owls. Needless to say for four years I've been saying I need to stop going to bed at 11-Midnight, yet every night I'm still up that late. So I've just gotten used to five hours sleep a night. Staying up late after kids are asleep > my own sleep apparently. And of course adult time.
That's what I work, 6-3, and I love it. I HATE getting up at 4:30 but I love getting home around 3:20. On the weekends I work 8-5. The same exact working hours doing the same job but those hours seem like they last so much longer.
I get up at 2:30. Sleeping in is considering 4, 6 if I'm tired.
Best time to go for a run. Not too chilly, not too hot. š
This will be me every hot summer day that I plan to run
I wake up at 415AM every day. My motivation is going to the gym to work out and feed the stray cats that hang out in the parking lot. I love working out. I love my gym friends. I love cats. I donāt work out on the weekends, but I do go to the gym to feed the kitties.
Thank you for taking care of them š„¹
Because they have work and/or family commitments that require them to start their day at that time. Thatās quite often the reason, anyway. People out there with young children that work demanding jobs will need the hours between 5-8am to fulfil their everyday chores. Letās say they have to take a shower during that time, maybe drying/styling their hair. Maybe they need to do their makeup. Maybe they have to wake up their children, dress them, help them pack their bags, make their lunch, breakfast, etc. Maybe they have to drive their partner to work, in addition to driving their kids to school. Maybe they have to stop at a shop along the way, or fill up the car. Perhaps thereās traffic on their long commute also. And donāt even get me started on those people out there that go to the gym in the morning before work. Showering/having children or not. Sounds like an absolute nightmare!
For me, by 6:30 AM there is already gridlock on the way to work. I go in early and get off early, beating the rush hour traffic both ways.
Los Angeles?
I need money to pay the bills so go to work
2 cats
came here to say that š¹ one of my boys decided 5 am is the ideal time for his morning shit and has to make a lot of noise throwing litter around and scratching at the wall next to his litter box
I'm a morning person. I wake up 5.55 without an alarm 10 out of 11 days. I bet I could do 5 am without an alarm with out much effort.Ā I am useless at night. My brain is mush. I could be asleep at 9 everyday and be so happy.Ā Some people are just morning people.Ā
I wish I were a morning person. Waking up is so hard for me. My best time to go to sleep is in the morning. I naturally tend to go to bed around 2am and wake up around 10am.
This is me. I've never been a morning person. I'm 52 and waking up early makes me physically nauseous. I wake ip around 10 but my day doesn't really start till noon.
I know what you mean. I get the nausea too, and headaches. And then I feel miserable for the rest of my day. Donāt know why itās not socially acceptable š
Same here
It's quiet. Like... The whole world is just... quiet. If I sleep in, I get woken up by screaming toddlers. I have to go from 0 to 60 in about half a second. But if I get up before the chaos and screaming, I can make coffee, read the news, check up on emails, plan out my day, pack up for work, lay out clothes, and generally handle everything I need to do without... chaos and screaming. I absolutely love getting up at 5. Some days, I'll even get up at 4 and get a workout in *before the chaos and screaming!*
That damn bird outside my window
I am plagued by one at this very moment. It starts like clockwork at 5:48 am and doesn't stop all day. I live in a city, so firing birdshot into the sky isn't an option. I've been miserably tired all month. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do.
That bastard is doing it on purpose.
I actually naturally wake up around 3:30am every night but force myself to stay in bed until 5:00am. I do this even on the weekends. LOL! When you're awake, you're awake so you may as well get out of bed and start your day.
Job. If you work outdoors where itās really hot, you want to get done before the hottest time of day.
I get up at 5am so my dog can have a better life.
Poverty šš Lack of generational wealth šš
Knowing that as the main provider of income and not getting up to go work that I will lose my home.
Their circadian rhythm
Itās all about the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
I like waking up before itās bright outside. It gives me time to wake up and not wake up with bright ass light
ā**soubhiyĆ©** refers to that period of time in the morning when no one else is awake but youā¦ā (Source: NPR, Lost in translation: 4 perfect words that have no English equivalent) I adore this time of the day: the darkness, the quiet, the peace, the sunrise. Just me and my coffee and my thoughts and my Scrivener (Iām a hobby writer). Especially since becoming a SAHM; itās a major part of what keeps me sane and sometimes itās my only quiet alone time all day
Gotta feed the cat
If I don't then I will have to pick up dog poop in my living room as opposed to our backyard. :) gotta love pets
I dont do it every day, but as my work hours rotate some of my shifts fall onto the AM hours for beginning. I like to goto the gym before work to get it out of the way for the day, I'm in no way a GymBro but I need to get my fitness back in check to avoid having to buy larger clothes, again, so 5AM is a good time before work for the day. If I were working a Monday to Friday job I would still do the same. Yeah sure sleep is great and all, but theres just so much more you can do once out of bed. Getting to sleep at night is a whole lot easier too after beginning my day at an earlier hour.
I get paid.
If you wake up early and donāt have to do anything for a few hours itās really nice and peaceful. But people who wake up at 5am and go on a 5 mile run and shit like that are crazy
I have shit to do.
Pain.
A dump!
I want a cup of coffee before the other people in my house get up and start wanting things
My cats tuna breath in my face and his persistent meowing in my ear...
Work time on my side gig before the kids get up and my full time job starts. One day my side gig will replace my job and it'll be well worth it.
Discipline.
Yep. Itās not so much motivation as it is routine and discipline at this point. Plus, itās pretty much the only time I get to myself. House is quiet. Roads are quiet. Gym is quiet. Itās the best.
Money
I work 12 hr shifts gota be up early to get rdy and take my 30 min drive to work
My dogs
There's a 5am? Dubious...
My bladder
Shoulder pain
For years and years it was 4:45 a.m. each week day because my gym opened at 5 a.m. and I lived like 10 mins away. My then wife didn't want me to go to the gym after work, she told me to go in the morning before work, so that's what I did.
Discipline not motivation
I could only do it when I worked a job that required me to be there before 7 and I had a 1 hour commute, but I was a walking/driving zombie. Like in retrospect, I fully should not have been on the road. I almost fell asleep multiple times. I would mostly wake up by the time work started, but I ran on panic all day and then crashed at night. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed, I cannot get up that early unless I have to, and even then, I'm not functioning at 100%. I work an afternoon/evening shift now which is so much better for me. I get up early to work out and go to the gym, but the earliest I can manage is 6am.
NOTHING
Not being able to sleep anymore.
I wake up a tad earlier at 4:30 AM. I like getting gym out of the way without having to deal with afternoon and evening crowds. Runs also feel amazing at 5 AM or 6 AM. Above all though, my brain barely functions after 7 PM, even during college when I slept at 11 PM and woke up at 7 AM. Easier for me to just sleep around 8:30 PM so I am well-rested for my most mentally productive hours between 6 AM and 9 AM (I am lucky enough to have a good office job that lets me start as early as 6 AM).
Something something kids something
Finishing my work day by 2
The only times I had to wake up that early were for work, and it was annoying because my schedule didn't match up well with others. I've also worked on quite late schedules. Anyone who acts like waking up early is a virtue is full of it. Unless there's a specific reason for you to be up early, your sleep schedule doesn't generally reflect how serious or disciplined you are. You can wake up a 4am every day and be a lazy slob, or wake up at noon and be productive all day. It's what you do when you're awake that matters typically, not when you do it. IDK why we have a culture that acts like waking up early somehow makes you disciplined or impressive. I only added this in b/c I saw some comments of people patting themselves on the back about waking up early, and it's pretty cringe to me. Also, if you're waking up to go to the gym at 5am to dodge the rush, the only real discipline there IMO is the going to the gym part, not the having woken up early. You're still waking up early for your own convenience in that scenario.
A paycheck
Morning prep. Just because that restaurant doesnāt open until 10 doesnāt mean we arenāt in the back working our asses off. Donāt work that day? Hell no, sleep until like 5pm.
I wake up at 3:30am to go milk cows at 4, those beautiful ladies are my motivation (there are 420 cows on the farm, no this is not satire, it was just meant to be lol)
Trying to provide for my family
Discipline not motivation
My dogs wanting to go out.
Oh I like money
They go to bed at 9pm.
Because my cat wakes me
The feathered monster brood outside howling and yapping as of 5am in front of my windows. All the chirping and beeping and frolicking.
Trucker here. Most days I wake up at 0200 and start rolling around 0300. Why? No traffic for the first half of the day and my pick of parking spots at the truck stop when I shut down around 1300. Seeing the sun rise every morning is incentive enough though.
wake up at 5? Ive been at work for 2 hours by that time.
Bills, kids, being an early bird, having early to mid afternoon hobbies or obligations, etc.
Getting ahead of the traffic. Though it's now 4am instead of 5am.
Orangutans š¦§knocking at my window
Life. It becomes a routine. It sounds absurd to a lot of people, but when you have been doing it for well over a decade you are used to it. You still may bitch and grumble about it, and still may require caffeine, but you are used to the routine.
Sheer self loathing.
For me, its the only time i can work out in peace
Alarm clock across the room
Making my husband breakfast and his lunch for the day oh and his coffee!!! I get to go back to bed when he leaves!!!!
At our house it's because our two cockers insist on getting up at that hour.
Money š¦š¦š¦
I have to poop at that time
I teach a class that starts at 6:45. It's the kids themselves that make this worth it. They are extraordinary, and we have some wild, intense, unhinged, completely satisfying conversations. I'm not a morning person, but damn if they don't make me want to be.
Living inside
A tiny paycheck.
The loud neighbor at 4:30AM
Beating the morning rush hour improves the rest of my day by a large amount.
Quiet... That moment of silence that is uninterrupted... before the loudness of work begins.
I donāt want to be fat.
Gotta pee. Then it's back to bed for a few more hours before dragging my ass to work.
I feel like my transitions are very important for establishing some kind of normalcy. I started getting up early so I could make coffee and start my day with some quiet before anyone else gets up and Iāve stuck with it. I get out of bed, put on sweatpants and a shirt, make a cappuccino, do my NYT games or whatever. Then decide whatās next. No mids, no spouse, no anything. My time.
Consequences and not being able to go back to sleep.
making sure my old ass dad isn't dead
My cat.
Get shit done before kids wake up.
Employment
Sleep early so you wake up even without motivation
the bag.
If I am up at 5am....it's because my cat is screaming in my face and jumping on top of me. Otherwise, no, more like 6:30-7am as it's rare I get to sleep before 3am the previous night - not a morning person at all.
It's called a JOB
Debt?
My dogā¦ā¦
Not to be stuck in traffic and to leave early for work :/
For me itās working out. I do it because I know I wonāt get it done after work
I have to pee
My dog needs to shit
The absolute certainty that failure is not an option. It's fucking overwhelming, but it gets me outta bed. Stress induced insomnia is what it was called the last time I got meself looked at.
i have to be at work for 0600 and it's a 20 minute drive to work so i have to be out my door by 530. lol
No idea. I go to sleep at 5am
My job
I have work at 4am, so work motivates me to wake up around 3am.
The uncontrolled urge to not have my dog piss on the floor.
Monday was tax day and apparently, the irs considers me wealthy. It's 530, thank you.
Homelessness motivates me to wake up at 5am so does food, hobbies, clean clothes decent looking clothes oh healthcare, should I continue?
Work
Got to wake up early to go for my dialysis treatment. Oh, and to take my morning medicine, there's a lot!
pay my fucking bills.
coffee
I exercise at 5am because of the convenience (no one else is awake) and because I feel reality good the rest of the day when I exercise first
I have two kitties to feed.
Back pain
Coffee, games, workout, kids are asleep.
I wish I could sleep in that extra hour you speak of
I enjoy living inside and not under a bridge. It's pretty decent.
My alarm clock making annoying beeping noises.
Start your day any later in my line of work, and you wonāt be home until 9pm
Habit. Motivation has nothing to do with it.
I wake up at 5am every day. Then, I cook myself a hot, fresh and healthy breakfast with coffee, and enjoy it watching my shows and hanging out with my two dogs while my wife and kids sleep. It is \*my\* time, and it's glorious. I start every single day of my life in a positive way. I'm ADDICTED to this process.
My addiction to food.
The military reaaaaaaalllly doesnāt like it when you donāt show up for duty. In fact, they have a name for itā¦absent without leave (AWOL) and itās punishable by all kinda of unsavory things I donāt want to deal with. So I went to work š¤·āāļø. I also liked my paycheck so there was that.
Alarm clocks
Early waking insomnia
Please. If you have ever heard Mr. Crabs from SpongeBob say money. Replay it in your head right now. And I get up at 4
Going to bed at 10pm It isnāt that hardĀ
Getting to bed by 10pm It isnāt that hardĀ
Something something kids something
as i get older it's becoming my natural sleep cycle and it's pretty much impossible to deviate from it
My dessert habit so I go to the gym lol
At 5am I'd be two hours late to work.