Successful CEOs who are getting up late
- Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise cloud company Box
- Reddit co-founder and husband of Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian - gets up around 10 am
- Pharrell Williams doesn't use an alarm to wake himself up; he relies on his body's natural sleep habits
- Mark Zuckerberg gets up around 8 am
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About 1 in 2 people have relatively “normal” sleeping habits; they function most optimally when they don’t stay up too late or wake up too early and stick to a consistent sleep schedule.
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- Early morning hours are so peaceful and quiet.
- Rise early and you actually have time for breakfast.
- Easier to exercise. Exercising right after work is liable to be canceled because of other things that come up.
- Productivity. You can get much more done by starting on my work in the morning.
- Commute early, and the traffic is much lighter, and you get to work faster, and thus save yourself more time.
- It’s much easier to make those early appointments on time if you get up early.
Long days can leave us tired and exhausted. But, our days would be less hard and exhausting if we weren't so tired through them.
Most night owls have to wake a similar time to other people. It means they are forced to sleep five or six hours instead of sleeping for seven or eight hours. Consequently, they feel tired all the rime.
- Push your sleep reset button and look at this activity from a new light, as if you are now trying this for the first time in your life.
- Keep a time window of 30 minutes in your bedtime and wake up time.
- Engage in relaxing activities like meditating, reading or cloth folding.
- Catch your sleep cycle and if you miss it, be attentive for the next one.
- Perform a moderate activity one hour before bedtime, to avoid jamming your body.