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The Benefits of Getting Up at 5am
[0:19] I'm here today to tell you why you should be getting up at 5am.
I'm going to give you six reasons why you should be getting up bright and early in the morning and how it will actually impact what you do for the rest of the day.
So the first reason is because it kick starts your day, right?
You get on top of things before others are even up out of bed, okay? This is a fantastic time to work.
I often get up early and work. Now, you can use it to work, you can use it for other things as well.
So there's lots of different systems that people have for what they do in the mornings, but it does, when you get up early, I get up at 4.30 most days and getting up early, it gives you a new level of energy for the rest of your day.
People think, oh, I'm going to be tired, I'm going to be exhausted if I get up early. Well, I find that it actually makes me more energetic and that by sleeping in, and when I say sleeping in, I mean getting up at like 6.30 or 7, that to me, I feel sluggish then in the mornings.
Whereas if I get up early, I feel really energetic.
I get a lot more done across the whole day and then I'm going to be on top of things before other people are. Reason number two to get up at 5am, you are uninterrupted and you can then use that time.
Activities to Maximise Your Morning Time
[1:31] I want to give you just, I think it's four things that you can use this morning time to do.
[1:37] One thing you can do is meditate. One of the things that I do in the morning when I get up is I sit down and read my Bible.
I read my Bible and I pray and that's my form of meditation.
You can also use it for your exercise.
It's important for us to be looking after our health and by doing exercise in the morning it actually gets all your blood flowing and makes your brain more alert, more able to do things, more able to focus.
It sets people up for fantastic levels of work and being able to focus and all that kind of stuff for the rest of their day.
It's one of the things that I've seen other schools trial where they actually have students in the morning when they arrive, do exercise first thing in the morning to set them up for a better day in the classrooms for the rest of the day and it works.
It does work. It improves students' focus and learning throughout the rest of that day and it will do the same for you.
A third thing that you could do in the morning uninterrupted is you could get some work done. That's the main thing I use my time for.
Utilising Morning Hours for Deep Work and Planning
[2:28] So once I've read my Bible and prayed, I then spend the next few hours doing my work, my main chunk of what we call deep work.
So doing all the things that really matter most, things that are most impactful.
So I might use it, when I was teaching, I would use it for my programming.
I would use it for writing content, for developing the resources.
I would use it for giving feedback to my students, all that kind of stuff.
[2:50] The work right the the stuff that requires you to be focused and get into a kind of state of flow right so you'll notice as you're giving feedback or marking things with students.
[3:00] After the first three or four if you're then not interrupted by the time you're doing the fifth sixth seventh and then thirtieth right you're getting into a state of flow where it's easier, and faster to really give the feedback and the marks and that kind of stuff so, doing work in that time fantastic thing to do it means you're actually on top of all your day stuff stuff and then i was actually talking to a teacher today and she was talking about how she gets frustrated when she goes into school she's like you know we currently have uh here in new south wales at least across australia i think it's fairly worldwide at the moment is this teacher shortage uh and so here she comes into school and she's telling me one of the things that she's finding most difficult is that she comes to school she thinks she's got two periods off that she's planned to do some planning in you know so she's got uh you know maybe she's got period three off off in period seven uh five off or something and so she's planned i'm going to be you know planning my next year's programs here i'm going to be at this point in time marking stuff or giving feedback or writing my reports and then she comes to school and she gets given extras that time suddenly is taken away from her and that's hard for this because then you're going to find that time elsewhere.
[4:04] Whereas if she got up at five o'clock she could actually have done all that work all the deep important work first and then when she's coming to those periods where she got off and there she should have stuff planned for that.
But she might have planned in there to chat to people or to search around the internet for particular resources or it might just be that she's planned to answer her emails or something.
And then when you miss that, I thought it's not as big a deal, right?
This is about balancing things up so you're doing your deep focus stuff in that morning rather than other stuff, right?
[4:39] Deep focus frees you up later on in the day so things are not as impactful on your life later that come up at work and we have stuff come up even there can be behaviour it can be welfare stuff that comes up you can be there can be a lockdown or whatever that happens at your school that interrupts your day the fourth reason or fourth thing sorry that you should be doing maybe in the morning is setting aside time for growth.
[5:05] So one of the things that we often don't have time for as teachers is that constant professional development, the ability to read through books about education, to read through and study, articles, to do courses about learning new skills and stuff for your teaching and learning.
This professional development, we always go off to workshops and stuff, or sometimes we sign up for online courses and don't finish them, but then we do workshops that take a whole day and we have to leave all this prep work that we then have to catch up when we to get later it becomes a bit of a headache but we can actually build into our morning routines, getting some quality growth happening through our reading or doing courses and stuff and that's it's a fantastic way to use your morning time in fact i generally dedicate my fridays to that so friday mornings when i get up you know i'll read my bible and pray and then i'll move into, actually completing a course that i started or reading a book and writing notes based on that that book or something like that.
[6:03] Okay, so I've given you two reasons why you should be getting up at 5 a.m.
One, it kick starts your day. The second one is that it gives you uninterrupted time to get some quality things done.
The third reason is it's going to actually improve your quality of sleep.
Okay, if you are waking up at 5 a.m., you are likely to go to bed.
You're going to be tired earlier, and that means that you are going to have a better sleep because you've, let's say you got up and did exercise, right?
Both of those things help you to improve the the quality of your sleep.
You're gonna have better deep sleep where you're actually repairing and recovering in your sleep and not that kind of shallow type sleep.
[6:36] So, getting up at 5 a.m. is actually gonna improve your sleep.
You're gonna go to sleep a bit earlier. Well, I go to bed normally around 9.30.
You're gonna sleep better because you're tired, because you've done all this stuff, your brain's been used, you've done quality things, and you'll also get to the point where you're excited about waking up.
I get excited as I go to bed. I'm like, oh, this is what I'm doing tomorrow.
I can't wait to get stuck into that. It's gonna be a fantastic morning.
Reason number four is that you are not in a rush. If you get up early, you're generally not then in a rush when you're trying to get out the door by a particular time.
You've actually got all this extra time and you're going to get some quality things done in that time, but you also can go, okay, well, I'm going to finish.
I'm going to get up at 5 a.m.
I'm going to stop at 7, have a shower, eat my breakfast, et cetera, and leave the house by 8.
And you can plan that and not be in a rush. You're not going to be going, oh, I'm waking up and feeling tired.
This lady's going to make my coffee. and then okay now it's 8 30 i'm gonna be late okay that gets avoided right you don't have to be rushing around because you're getting up bright and early and you're on top of things, fifth is that actually getting up in the morning increases your confidence okay apparently you have already succeeded in doing something and when you succeed in something early on in your day it increases your confidence and then makes you succeed in other things throughout the day and And it kind of has a snowball effect.
And so how this completely works, I have heard of it, read it in a couple of books, but I'm not going to go into a lot of detail.
Boosting Confidence through Early Morning Achievements
[8:05] But the idea of actually achieving something early in the morning improves your confidence. So if you are achieving getting up at 5 a.m., that improves your confidence.
If you wake up and make your bed first thing in the morning, it improves your confidence.
And that then snowballs into the rest of your day where you are more confident, you start succeeding in things and getting more things done.
And that improves you as an efficient teacher the sixth reason that i have for you is that you have time to do the things that matter and that then compounds over time by doing this consistently, so because you're getting up at five o'clock and you're getting this chunk of time where you're uninterrupted and you can dedicate it to specific things.
[8:46] As you start to dedicate to the things that you want to develop, that you want to improve, the things that you want to be working on, that has a snowball effect, okay, so a compound effect, just builds and builds and builds, small amounts, even if you dedicate, let's say you dedicate, you know, half an hour every morning to reading something, or you decide that you're going to, in the morning, you know, you're going to spend an hour getting all this work done, which frees you up to do other things, it's going to compound, suddenly, you're going to get better and faster and more efficient.
You're going to get improvements in multiple areas of your life because you are getting the things that matter most to you done in the mornings.
And that is going to have a huge impact on your every day, particularly because you're doing it every day. If you're doing this every day, it has a huge impact across your life.
Six Reasons Teachers Should Wake Up at 5 a.m.
[9:33] So I want to really encourage you. That's six reasons I've just given you as to why teachers should be getting up at 5 a.m.
To set themselves up for a successful day as an effective teacher.
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