What is the perfect time to wake up in the morning?

“If you’re not growing, you’re dying” - Tony Robbins

The best time to wake up in the morning is the time that gives you an hour to prioritize your personal growth. (So, an hour before you would normally wake up)

Here are the things you can do in that hour for yourself that 90% of the population will not do over the course of an entire week:

• Read 30 pages of a self-improvement book
• Go for an hour long walk or run
• Prepare a week’s worth of healthy meals
• Lift weights
• Journal about your dreams and goals
• Schedule and plan the entire upcoming week
• Tidy up your living space
• Meditate or self-reflect
• Work on a side hustle
• Learn a new skill or take an online class
• …etc.

Wake up an hour before you normally would every day and at the end of the year you will have spent more than 9 work weeks on your personal growth and development.

The possibilities are endless when you conquer the snooze button!

There is no universal "best time" to wake up. It's a very individual matter.

However, there are a few factors that will help you figure out your optimal "wake up time."

1. Time that Will Let You Rest.

If you undersleep, because you try to wake up at the optimal time, it's not the optimal time for you.

Undersleeping is all but optimal. It leaves you performing like a zombie, and you don't even recognize the fact. It undermines your health. It's a full-blown disaster.

Get to know your individual sleep needs, and make sure you sleep enough. That's the first step to optimization.

2. Time that Suits Your Lifestyle.

If you work on night shifts, no AM hours would be optimal for you. End of story.

Most people perform optimally waking up around dawn (assuming they sleep enough).

However, there are quite a lot of people whose brains, when wakened too early, are foggy and don't function well.

3. Time that Will Provide Peace.

Taking the two first factors into account, it's good to wake up early enough to tackle some huge tasks in the morning.

I wake up at least an hour before going to work, because that allows me to do my morning routine. I prefer to wake up 2-3 hours before I have to run for a train, because then I can do my morning ritual and dedicate 1-2 hours to work on my business without a single interruption.

Mornings are the best time both for charging your mental batteries (morning ritual) and for work. Your willpower is at its peak. Your energy is high (especially after the morning ritual). Everybody else in your household is usually asleep, so you can do with your time whatever you wish.

And The Mix of Them All

In the ideal world, you'd have woken up at the same time every day and have your mornings for you. Unfortunately, we don't live in the ideal world.

I chronically undersleep, even knowing the utmost importance of sleep. I just have too many balls in the air. Nonetheless, I let some balls "drop" from time to time and get more sleep. One or two days in a row I can sleep 6 hours or below to meet the deadline, but I'll take a break on day #3. I know it doesn't pay off to hustle at the cost of my rest.

I can stay awake very late to spend more time with my kids or wife from time to time. My wake-up time is automatically moved farther away. It may be optimal for my performance (I usually don't dedicate any time for my business in such case), but it is optimal for my overall life.

I have stand-by duties every other week. If the phone rings and I work into the night, I will reschedule my alarm clock for later.

You need to be smart about picking your best wake-up time. A rigid schedule will serve you only if your life is extremely regular.

‘Best time to Wake Up – 6:30am. The goal is to wake up at sunrise, after having 7 hours of restful sleep. The keys to a good night's sleep are to go to bed before 11pm, sleep in a cool, dark (pitch black) room & avoid visual stimulation (TV or computer) an hour before bed.’ Best Time of Day to do Anything

Also make sure you’ve eaten 3-4 hours before going to bed.

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So, is it 6:30 or 5?!

“Our results indicate that going to sleep and waking up at approximately the same time is as important as the number of hours one sleeps,” lead author Andrew J.K. Phillips, a biophysicist at Brigham and Women’s, says in a statement. The findings, a footnote to every “early bird gets the worm” story, are the latest in a string of research claiming that a good night’s sleep isn’t just getting seven to nine hours of shut-eye — it’s also about getting the same seven to nine hours every http://night.http://time.com/money/4942543/ti...

Benjamin Franklin: 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.'

My take on this would be ‘Relatively early to bed and relatively early to rise….’

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The best time for me to get out of bed in the morning is when both my eyes are open; because if they are both open, even though I may still be feeling a little tired, then I am awake, and if I’m awake, I shouldn’t be in bed. I am not an early riser, chiefly because I stay up late – I seem to be more productive in the cool night hours – and so the optimal time, FOR ME, is to wake up/ get out of bed at 8:15AM.

My question to you would be when do you normally get up? – that is probably the best time for you. Listen to your body: it lets you know when it’s tired and needs rest and when it’s had enough rest.

I think the best time to wake up is between 5:00am-5:30am.

Why wake up so early?

Here are my top 5 reasons

1-It will help to schedule your routine to fall sleep at night on time.

2-Morning exercises are the best.

3-Take paper pen and write down what you want to do in the whole day. Make it the most productive day of your life.

4-Pick up your phone and check notifications, reply to your texts and other stuff but dont spend more than 30 min on phone in the morning.

5-After exercise, take bath and read some book or magazine or watch news for some time. Start your day with some productive activity.

There is no particular time, it really depends on your sleeps stages.

When we sleep we cycle between light sleep and deep sleep stages. The ideal time for you to wake up is when you are cycling back to light sleep from deep sleep.

If you wake up during deep sleep you will feel groggy and tired. It becomes harder to wake up.

There are several apps that you place on your bed and can give you an idea of your sleep stage transition.

What’s the goal? Brain’s power, focus and productivity? More energy? If one of those is a goal for you then you should wake up when you have slept at least 7 hours of good, quality sleep. That spoken, go to bed earlier around 22:00 pm to release more of the health valuable hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters which are essential for your performance on the next day.

That would be a smart optimization approach. Give it a try.

No particular time. It all depends on a) your sleep pattern and b) your daily schedule. Everyone has a different time. But if you wanted me to put a number on it, try 7.30! More important is your regularity of sleep and make sure you are getting 7.5 hours at least of good qualty sleep.