If you have a shorter circadian rhythm, you’re a morning lark; a longer circadian rhythm and you’re a night owl. Neither is morally superior over the other. You may think, as a morning lark, that you’re getting your stuff accomplished before night owls. But turn that thinking on its head-maybe the night owls did your morning stuff the night before.
Yeees!! Exactly!!. My "get it all done" and "zipping around efficiently" turns on in the evening and really gets going at 1030pm. Now I have little kids and I try to go to bed early and wake up early before them and I'm always fighting waking up and I'm 10x slower in mornings. Way more productive at night but I have to adjust to the circumstances I'm in.
Exactly. Undoubtedly a night owl, and I know colleagues probably think I'm crazy or behind because I'm doing stuff at night. I'm actually a day ahead of them, not scrambling last minute, though.
@@zmommy4044 I'm 100% exactly in your position. My productive time is 10pm to 1am.....my kids wake up at 6am. I can't wait until they're teenagers and we can all start sleeping in 😄
At 69 yrs old. I’m still trying to accomplish this. Much harder because I’m a night owl but no energy at night anymore. I take a nap so that probably affects my sleeping. I technically have no purpose to get up. I’m decluttering my house so need energy for that. My phone is a definite distraction
@@debbieforthofer-wx3es There is this free app named flora where you can grow a virtual tree when you‘re not on your phone. The principle is easy and i use it to get more productive - at night or in the morning. If you use your phone in the time you don’t want to go there your tree dies. I like this principle because I don’t want trees to die. Not even virtual ones😄
I love this! Changing my schedule was SO HARD and it took a few months, but I feel better on my current schedule than I ever have. I used to be a night owl and stay up till 12 or 1am, and get up about 7 hours later. I read the research about going to bed/sleep before 10 pm, because our body releases stress hormones after about 10 pm that make us more alert and on "night watch" making it more difficult to fall asleep. No matter how tired or awake I was, I started getting into bed by 9:30 every single night. At first I wasn't falling asleep till a couple hours later, but I could read, journal, pray, etc till I slept. Now I'm usually in bed by 9:30 and sleep by 10. Establishing a consistent bedtime was more important for me than a consistent wake time. My wake time sweet spot is 6:30-7 am. If I wake up later, or go to bed late, I just don't function as well. This saved me at 29 years old. Cured insomnia, depression, helped anxiety, etc. Lots of people say they don't study everyone and that's true, but what the studies find is also true. You do you!
Interesting however there ARE people who function better on an alternative schedule and there is nothing wrong with these people. My friend is a ‘night owl’ and does his best work later in the day and at night, hence the reason he works 3rd shift.
Thank God for night owls or else the hospitals and first responders would be extinct... and many other professions. Personally I couldn't care less about the societal clock.
I agree. I am a natural night owl. I get up earlier now and go to sleep earlier because the job I currently have demands that I start at an earlier hour, but I still think more clearly, am more creative, and function better at night.
I’m a nurse, and I will tell you there are TRUE nightshifters and poser ones! I have been a poser nightshifter because it works better for my family. The way I spot the difference is if you really listen to a true nightshifter- they NEVER sleep! They say they do, but they don’t. That’s not me, I can’t function without sleep. There really are just different types of needs for sleep.
Yes! And there are people with sleep disorders, and constantly hearing that their alternative sleep rhythms are BS are a bit disconcerting here. But, for the rest of us... this sounds helpful.
Yes, it could work for her too. I used to have difficulties in falling asleep all my life, but now waking up and going to bed at the same hours (not always, but in general), it's much more better. Now I usually fall asleep in 15 minutes, but before it was 1-2 hours and sometimes much more..
I'm in my 70's. After working rotating shift work and the midnight shift for nearly 30 years, I can honestly say that I feel better when I stay up till midnight and get up around 5:30 or 6:00am to feed our cats, then I stay up for a while to "wake up" and get stuff done. I take a nap at some point during the day to catch up on an hour or so of sleep and keep on going. It works for me.
Me too, got up just before 5am for years when I was teaching and always in bed by 9.30pm. Now ignition bed around midnight and get up whenever I fancy! Bliss
Getting 7+ hours of sleep is still important due to REM cycles. So if possible for anyone reading, try to make sure you're sleeping for at least 7 hours straight
I used to be a night owl for 20 yrs of my adult life. Then I became a mom at 51. It took some time but I adjusted to a morning person. I get up 1.5 hours before my kid. It gives me a silent space to start my day calm and focused. Been doing this for almost 3 yrs and I still laugh at myself that I am in bed by 9pm
Everyone always says "sleep is so important", but very few tell you that your bedtime/ wake up time matters too. Thank you for this short and well explained video! I used to get up at 6:30am for most of my life, but since having kids I realized that I need to be up at least an hour earlier to get things done, so that the morning routine runs smoothly. 5:30am is my morning wake up time and it just works better for my physical and mental health.
This is such a great video and it gives me food for thought. I am 67 years young, and an early riser usually between 5-6am. I’ve been going to bed earlier than I used to, now around 1030pm. I do feel better however sometimes I can toss and turn from 4am until I just get up. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Drives me nuts at times.
Me too. But seemingly a 4 am wake up is probably your liver expelling bad stuff. I’m not sure of the since. But if you switch sides you might go back asleep 😴
This is a great tutorial and intro to stabilizing mornings. My constant problem is hitting the snooze button. So, when my alarm goes off, I'm going to turn on my salt lamp, which I have next to my bed, instead of the snooze button. It's less jarring. Then I'll start with bed stretching, which I already do (when I eventually get my butt up🤭). And I'll drink up the water I have next to the bed to get me up. Thank you for this prompt, I really needed to make these changes.
While my husband recovered from a leg amputation, I took a leave from work. While a stressful time, I didn’t get up at my “work” time and didn’t have issues with anxiety. Fast forward to September. Bed at 11, up at 6-6:30 M-F. I started waking up nervous, with feelings of dread, and more recently…a panic attack. Studies don’t “study” everyone.🤷🏻♀️
I’m going to try this! I REALLY want to be up at 6:30am each morning but never get it started. Tomorrow I will start your method and my purpose will be to walk on the treadmill for at least 30 minutes, then knit for an hour before work, while I drink my tea. I feel inspired 😊
This is a great video! Its easy to come up with every excuse under the sun why getting up early isnt good for you, because it is difficult to begin with. But overtime and with the correct routin in place for you, its absolutely good for everyone. I think the main problem is people don't know how to keep a solid routine and stay organised. Maybe learning discipline is the hardest part. But if you've been discouraged, don't give up! Keep at it!
I'm coincidentally doing this right now so I really enjoyed hearing your perspective. It's actually been easier to get out of bed than I thought it would be. I love having so much done already before I arrive to work each day. This past weekend I woke up around the same time without the alarm and felt refreshed!
The 7hr tip is really helpful because I felt like if I wanted to get up early for time for myself, then I had to sacrifice evenings with my husband- If I’m up til 11 I’m not going to be up at 5. But 8 hrs is not essential, then 10-5 seems doable. Thanks!
Kallie, thanks so much for these videos. I have been making small, but steady, changes over the past couple of years and your videos have been a MAJOR help! Thank you so much. God bless you and your growing family!❤🙏🏼🥰
Hi kallie, after reading some of these comments, I think it would be great if you could do a video on growth mindset vs fixed mindset, including self limiting beliefs, and how someone can't do something "yet" rather than "not at all" if that makes sense. Love your videos!
Thank you for this comment KH. I also think that would be great. Kallie you have been such an inspiration and motivating force for me with your videos. I appreciate you more than you could ever know. Thank you 🤗
Everything you said rings true in my overall experience and what I’m going through right now! The alignment of this video drop w my life right now couldn’t be more perfectttt! Totally joining the challenge!
I use to be asked if I could not "be so happy in the morning so early" at work...well it's in my DNA. I get up same time each and everyday, go to sleep and I fast for at least 12 hours from dinner to breakfast. It all works.
I'm naturally an early riser but have been really tired lately despite waking up early every day because my bedtime has been all over the map. I will take the challenge this month just for the bedtime!
well this was VERY inspirational! I also purchased your ebook (great price!) and will start today. this is huge for me, because i always tell myself "i'll start on monday" but monday just slips right on by. thanks for this and for the great price on the ebook!
Your video is very much appreciated. I have chronic fatigue and chronic pain and getting out of bed at any time is litterally painfull and nauseating. But I so much would like to be an earlier bird so to speak. Thanks to your tips I am going to give it another try. Maby springtime and rising temperatures will be of any help aswell. have a nice week!
I totally hear you - was up today with my good ol’ friend neck pain 😢. …hope you can find a rhythm with this schedule. I’m hopeful - getting up before every one gives me time to stretch…it’s not easy but hoping it will alleviate some consistent pain
For years I went to bed at midnight and got up at 5:30 am feeling fully rested. If I moved my bed time to 10:00 pm try to get closer to the recommended amount of sleep I found myself waking at 3:30 am after a few nights. 5.5 hours was what worked for me. That worked well until I caught covid last fall. For 4 weeks after that I didn't have enough energy to work more than 2-3 hours a day. Now I can put in a normal workday but I need 7.5 hours of sleep every night. Before covid I would fall asleep quickly and rarely wake up during the night which is probably why 5.5 hours was enough. Now I wake up several times during the night so my sleep isn't as restful as it used to be. I'm hoping that the longer days and warmer weather of spring and summer will reset my circadian rhythm back to what it was. I miss that two hours of awake time.
Sorry to hear about the complications of covid, it really sucks to hear that you lost your mornings. I know my boyfriend had the flu back in 2018 (before we met) and it left him with lifelong complications. Lung and throat issues, chronic fatigue but trouble sleeping, aches and pains in places that don't make sense. Poor guy, wish I knew how to help him out. I know he's constantly coughing and carrying around tissues and takes decongestants usually prescribed for asthma (and those have stimulating ingredients, I can't imagine how tired he'd be without them), every evening he does that old people think of dozing off in his easy chair. I used to tease him about falling asleep in the evenings when we were hanging out together because he's 11 years older than me (I'm 27, he's 38), then I found out why and I felt like a real witch. He assured me I did nothing wrong, but I still feel awful. He's a night owl and I'm more of an early riser (I get up at 6 AM every morning), so that alone provides a difference in schedule. I just always feel so bad that I can't help.
It has been a year since that case of covid knocked me down and I'm happy to say things are mostly back to normal. The old sleep pattern of midnight to 5:30 am has returned so I get to be both a night owl and an early bird.
I work second shift most of the year, and have kept a mostly consistent sleep schedule for over a year. Still could not rouse myself in the morning. And this video hit what was missing for me: purpose. To be fair, sometimes purpose is cuddling with my cats first thing in the morning, but I can't do that every day. Or at least not for a long time. :)
This is the most beneficial video I have ever watched about waking up early! I have struggled with this so much! I am going to try your methods and see what happens!
This is really helpful! I was a night owl, and then I became a strict morning person. I slipped up recently, and went back to being a night owl. So I will be doing your 30 day challenge!!!
Thank you ❣️ I have been thinking 🤔 about this specifie thing. I want the me time. I want my glamour back and I want to Organize my mornings, my bedroom, and start studying. I just did my vitamins and decluter something, today. Tomorrow, I have early plans for me. Doing some returns and two groceries Stops. I want to simplify my world while adding and making myself a priority. MySelf Esteem come from believing that I am important. If I value myself otherwise, if I am the first to ignore myself everyone will too.
What about people like me who work nights? I don’t get off work till between 1 AM and 2:30AM. So I get in bed between 2:30 and 3:30 I get up between 10 and 11 AM. So I try to get 7 hours which is what I’m good with. Anything less I’m not good. So my early May look different than your early.
I'm with you on that! I too work till 1am and usually going to bed at 3am. So our early is just different!!! BTW, I love working late, I have never been a morning person 🙃
I am a recovering meth addict of 30 years, and I am struggling with insomnia, and staying asleep. I can take 4 Tylenol PM's and lay in bed wide awake every night until 10am and finally get to sleep and will stay asleep until 5pm, and feel exhausted. I feel like my dopamine kicker is kicked and I am waiting to die. I am 50 years old and I can't,snap out of it. It feels like hell on earth but I just hit 6 months and will keep going. Quit cigs and gambling too, so my body is still in shock. I PRAY it gets better, because this is a long recovery.
I’ve always been a night owl except when I was working and needed to be at hospital at 7:00am.Now since retiring I have become a night owl again.I’ve tried melatonin etc to adjust my sleep schedule, not working. I’m going to try again because my husband wakes up at 6:30am every morning all year and he works from home 🙃
I’m in the midst of changing my sleep schedule. Although I am going to bed earlier, it hasn’t translated to waking up a whole lot earlier. I’ve really been a night person my whole life, but I also have worked morning jobs where I conformed to earlier days. It’s hard though. It’s simply not all choice. Some of it is “hard wiring” that makes us a certain way with sleep.
Video idea to talk about how you adjust this for when you have kids or baby wake u up at night. Do you stick with wake up time? Sleep in? Take a nap later in the day?
Ok - I’m on day 2…I’m definitely questioning the 7 hours thing…😴😵💫 - the “30 minute leeway “ for sure helped this morning…time for my 20min stretch video!
My sleep schedule is all over the place. Sometimes I sleep at 11pm sometimes 3:30am so I’m waking up anywhere between 11am-4Pm :/ lately Iv been trying to wake up in the early 11ams and be okay with it. I go to night school for 4 3 days a week then 9-4 on Saturdays wich makes it hard for me to find my perfect time to sleep and wake up. After going through it, even tho I would love to wake up at 5, I’m sacrificing an hour in the morning waking up at 6 so that I have 2 hours at night to have time to chill, hang out with my fiancé and properly get ready for bed. I love my nights, I’m a huge night owl but I’m self employed and I’m school so for now untill I graduate I’m going to try to shift into a morning person
When I was working I was up at 4:45 and out the door between 6:15 and 6:30. I showered and applied makeup and got dressed. Then I prepped my lunch, cooked breakfast for my hubby and me, looked at the newspaper headlines before I left. I had a 30 - 50 minute drive depending on the traffic. Getting to school a bit earlier than required allowed me to make a cup of tea and review my plans for the day. But now that I’m retired, that’s another story! I’m also at that age when I get up 2-3 times per night to pee, and I have a hard time going back to sleep.I would love to get more than 3 hours sleep at a time! Yes, I’ve talked to my doctor. She recommended Benadryl or melatonin.
Good Saturday morning Kallie. Great video (as always). I'm glad to see you're doing well - and certainly well rested. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how to get a good night's sleep. 😊😊👍👍
I’m excited to try your advice. I work four 12 hour shifts, then off 3 days. I’ve struggled finding balance and allow myself to sleep in too long on the weekends. Most weekend days I wake up naturally at my scheduled work day time, try and force myself to fall back asleep, then feel awful. It’s almost spring and a perfect time to end this cycle! Thank you!
I used to wake up at between 6am to 630am because i have to travel 1.5 hours to work, I was stressed and depressed AF. Everyday I would get on the bus and fall asleep immediately, just 5 mins before my bus stop I would automatically wake up and I would want to throw up, then the pathetic work day would finally start and I will be under constant pressure until I get off, on a good day I would arrive home at 830pm exhausted, and I would get my dinner. Nowadays I have a different job and I am able to work from home so things changed a lot.
The whole reason that society runs on the day clock is why im a night owl lol. Less stress from people calling, having to do errands, less distractions for me to do what i want to do like working on my channel videos, painting, etc. i dont sleep in much either anymore. Always up by 7am
True story: My mental health and physical health were much better when I slept from 11-6am every single day. Now that my ADHD husband is on his 15th year of rotating shift work, it takes me 9 hours to get maybe 5 hours of sleep and my body is not appreciating that very much.
Good sleep does escape some people and I am one. I wake after 2 or 3 hours and then awake every hour until time to get up. Been like thst for about 4 years. It is exhausting. I wish to have good sleep like others.
When I was in 8th grade, our teacher casually mentioned that if you slept every night for 8 hours, you’ve slept 1/3 of your life away. Ever since, I sleep five hours maybe, and that’s stretching since it takes me half the nite to get to sleep. But I’ve never wanted to sleep in, esp in summer. If it’s light out….me too!
I get seven hours of sleep and feel like hot garbage for several hours. I get eight hours and I feel like normal temperature garbage instead. An improvement. 😂
I love this. And agree that waking up at the same time before anyone else in the house is bliss. But what about when you have consistent broken sleep becuse of babies or children? Have you stuck to the same routine or allowed yourself to 'catch up' sleep in another way?
I Luv waking up early. I need to have more planning to be constructive with my time, but I need that no matter if I wake early or not. And once your body gets use to the early, it will automatically wake up w/o the alarm. Its true... it really does happen. ... Glenda
My time to myself is at night while everyone else is asleep, and I get a lot done, and love it. But I do want to shift by a couple of hours so I'm not shopping when other people are getting off work - so I think I'll try this. I've tried before, but I'll try again!
i either go to sleep at 2am, or i get up at 2am... 3 or 5 hour window, once or twice in 24hrs. if i sleep longer i get depressed. i'm just as productive either hour set, the most impact on my productivity is actually eating too much at once - it sedates me like crazy. the difference between me and others is that i'd worked panama shift swapping night/day monthly for 5 years, I sleep trained myself so i could sleep normally under any conditions at any time so long as i have the sleep cue - and i get up when i wake up, regardless how long i sleep and i haven't had to set an alarm in years. making sleep MORE conditional on environmental factors like darkness and noise just makes it harder when those factors are out of your control (trying to sleep before 9pm in the summer when the sun's up, travel, kids, etc). whatever you practice becomes your norm, when you don't practice anything, there isn't a normal. getting to sleep is the hardest part of training, because it takes consistency to develop the "cue". also, no studies i've seen have actually looked into training sleep - i did it because suffering 36-52 hours without sleep for work was too much to bear. after training, i was the only one at the site that didn't feel drunk after a day-night shift change. My hubby always frets over what he sees as a lack of sleep, but then i remind him who will be awake for the babies... and i rarely have a "bad" night of sleep- cuz if i do, i get up and do things, sleep later.
Loved this video! ❤ I love love love the morning it’s my favorite! I wake up every morning at 4:30 am. I love my alone time. I start with my morning skin care , do devotions , take my time getting ready and just relaxing before I get my day started.
Daylight savings is in a week, so I'm gonna wait to start this challenge until then. But, I am excited to try and make my mornings more productive so I'm not stuck doing everything when I get home from work.
I call bull the studies that "prove" that being an early riser is better for different reasons People are not made from the same cookie cutter. I organize my life around my sleep pattern. I for instance make (medical) appointments later in the day. Waking up late in the morning makes me feel good and it works for my family because my homeschooled kids are nightowls too.
I tried to become an early riser, for two weeks I adopted a habit of getting up at 2 AM every morning. Some things I loved about it, others not so much. I wonder if 2 AM was overkill? I kept coming home from work exhausted and conking out (sometimes in my work clothes) but it give me plenty of time to work on things in the morning, it also cut my social life in half. So after two weeks I couldn't take it anymore and went back to sleeping in until 6 AM. I'm thinking 2 AM was overkill so maybe I should try a more reasonable time, like 3:30 AM. That way I can still have a social life on Fridays and Saturday evenings (in northern New Hampshire there isn't a ton of night life, so we do most of our "night life" stuff in the evenings because everything closes by 11 PM). I noticed in the summer, though, I get up slightly early, like 4 AM or 5 AM on my own some mornings. It feels great. On the other hand, I like to sleep in late when I go on my yearly one week vacation at the beach. Sometimes as late as 8 AM, but that's rare. Usually 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM is my get up for the day time on vacation. Would I enjoy the vacation more as an early riser or are they more fun the way I do it? Only one way to find out. Going to get up at 3:30 AM the first day I'm on vacation next summer and see how it goes.
I found this video terrifying; such relentless positivity. What if you can’t sleep? You know, like you maybe only get two or three hours a night due to health problems? You’re supposed to get up at 5am? Why?
I have been trying to wake up at 5:45 every morning for the past week in a half. I have only done it 3 days. I definitely want to wake up early, but I don't get to bed until 12 or 1 because of my work schedule and family schedule. I'm not giving up! I will keep trying until I get it. Lol
I’ve reading about the atomic habits and miracle mornings but I get off from work at 11 pm 😂 I’ve trying to wake up at 5 and I do but I’m back on bed around 10 am 😑 so I need a new plan to make it work
Tips for having young children especially a nursing little that still doesn't sleep through the night and cries for you if you are not right there from about 5am-630am when you have to start your day no later than 630am.
I call BS on your video, like you called on people who “can’t” wake up early. Some people really can’t. I’ve tried for 20 years, been to sleep clinics and had CBT to change my sleep cycle. Read the book by sleep researcher and expert Matthew Walker. People have different circadian rhythms and are naturally more alert at different times. Yet another person shaming night owls who cannot become early birds. I find this video offensive.
Hello! Thank you for your videos! I have been watching for a while 😊 I was wondering if you have a video on what you use to make videos? ( editing software or microphones and stuff like that) 🎤
I wish she had a video on how to navigate shift work and proper sleep habits. I've been doing 12 hour days and nights since 2008 and I've been tired since. Throw in 2 babies and I'm screwed up for real haha
My husband wakes up at 4am and leaves at 5am. I only need to get up at 6am. My problem is that i can not fall asleep at night and sometimes only fall asleep at 2am. Then wakes up at 4am when hubby gets up!!!
This really might work for some. I can guarantee that it doesn’t work for everyone. I started work at 6am for about 8 years and my internal clock never changed. My best wake time is 8am, not saying I can’t get up earlier but if I do I’m not as productive as the days I wake at 8. I also have a worse day if I get straight out of bed. If I don’t take 5-10 minutes in bed to wake up properly my mind takes hours to catchup.
