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Why I Keep Waking up at 6 a.m. Even Though I Now Work from Home
There’s more to it than self-discipline and productivity
It’s 6:25am, on a Thursday. I just finished making coffee and doing a quick round of journaling. I pulled out my laptop, and I am now starting to write the article you’re about to read.
With the pandemic, most of the people lucky enough to keep their job had to switch to a remote framework. I’m one of those people. I go to the office once or twice a week if I have important meetings, but other than that everything is done from home.
When you don’t have to go to the office everyday, there are a lot of things you don’t have to do anymore in the morning, and that makes you save a lot of time. You don’t have to get ready to go to work, to put on nice clothes, to prepare your lunchbox, to walk to the bus stop… Many people like to use that extra time to sleep.
The topic of wake-up time has come up once in a while at the office, and every time people learn I wake up at 6am every weekday, their first question is always the same. Why would you do that to yourself, when you work 90% of the time from the comfort of your own home? In this article, I want to answer that question.
