No one is willingly selecting five AM. The alarm is raised, the bed has turned into the most pleasant spot on earth, and all the sensible segment of your intellectuality lodges a formal protest. However, thousands of individuals who have been dragged unwillingly out of the good sleep are testifying to changes that are so dramatic and unanticipated that they actually never returned. This is what really happens when one becomes a member of the five AM club.
Days One, Two, and Three: A Secret Crisis
Your body complains, your mood is an open menace, you do not understand what decision led to this very situation at five AM in the dark. Completely normal. Temporary. Worth it. Allegedly.
Cortisol Becomes Your New Best Friend
The natural samples of cortisol are high in the morning between six and eight AM. Getting up at five means you have this hormonal surge first, and when you do, you are truly awake and alive, and not even the other half of the world has drawn its eyelids up grudgingly.
Two Hours Nobody Can Ruin
Five AM affords you two whole blissful hours to spend without demand, nocturnal announcements, and problems of another person knocking at your door. Studies have validated that the first thing in the morning gives rise to the most profound creative thought and most attentive cognitive work of the whole day.
Sleep Enhances Counter-Intuitively
Rising at five AM will always provide sleep pressure so that it becomes truly easy to fall asleep even after two weeks. The circadian rhythm really literally pays off your bad decisions in life with the improved quality of sleep, which is measurably improved, across all of its nighttime hours.
You Actually Exercise Now
Morning exercise at five AM boasts near-perfect rates over the evening exercise that competes with fatigue, dinner plans, and any other possible and convenient reason your creative mind will pull out. The gym is also happily and gloriously vacant.
Metabolism Receives a Premature Kick Start
Exposure to the middle of the day before going to sleep causes activation of metabolic processes that are never experienced by night owls. Early risers receive a true, quantifiable metabolic boost daily, which is humiliating but is also absolutely true and well-documented.
Mental Clarity Landfalls Clashingly
Spending a minute in silence before reading news or social media generates neurological relaxation that results in improved decision-making throughout the day. It turns out that your brain works very well when it is not subjected to the opinions of other people in its engagement at dawn.
Embarrassingly Fast Productivity Compounds
Five hours of concentration are much better than six hours of distraction at any time of the day and night. The thirty offers the additional sixty hours of bonus productivity to your month, which you would otherwise have used in a series of wrangles with your snooze button that never worked.
Self-discipline is Contagious As Good
Actually doing something really hard before six AM day after day gives a psychological momentum that goes everywhere. You eat better, you exercise, and the next day you are that person who prepares meals on Sundays; no one ever asks you to do that.
You Grow Unbearable at Dinner Tables
On the last day of the thirty days, the five AM alarm does not feel like punishment, but it feels like permission. You possess your morning! You possess your morning, even before the world possesses you. You will be said to have said this about four times, on average, at every social party,– and nobody can justifiably say that you are a liar.
