Early rising is an absolute game changer. Why? Because if you learn how to start your days well, your days will unfold gloriously, consistently. When you start your days before sunrise, you have a gargantuan competitive advantage. There’s no crowds, people are nicer, people are more open, there’s traffic on the streets, you can actually think. One of the lines in The 5AM Club is “Tranquility is the new luxury.” When you start your day well, you have the time. I call it the Victory Hour in the book. From five o’clock to six o’clock, you have the time to work on your Heartset, to develop your Mindset, to exercise, whether it’s doing planks, or running on a treadmill, or maybe it’s SoulCycle. I don’t know. But you get to work on your Heartset, you get the time to work on your soul set, or you can connect with your cause and connect with your mission and detect your values and build yourself into that hero and brave warrior so that when you go out in the world at 6:00 AM and you feel fundamentally different, you’re full of true power, you’re full of clarity on what you need to achieve during the day, you’ve got this intimacy with who you truly are. So you can stand steadfast in the turbulence that every day might bring. You have more energy, you have more joyfulness, and you’re connected with this peace. I mean, peace is really important to leadership and exponential productivity, when you are peaceful, grounded, focused versus diffused and scattered. There’s a term called digital dementia. A lot of us are suffering from digital dementia because of all the devices and technology. We’re not focused and grounded, so of course we’re not going to be at our creative and productive best.
