Winners Wake Up Early: Every Article I’ve Written About My Morning Routine

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“The 6 A.M. Life Style: How to Have a Little More ‘Me Time’ Each Morning”

“5 A.M. Is the New 6 A.M.: Nine Ways That Waking Up Extremely Early Isn’t Just Smart but Mandatory for Entrepreneurs Like You and Me”

“Winners Wake Up at 4:30 A.M.: The Science of How We Can All Become Rich by Being Less Pathetic”

“I Wake Up Before You Do: Nine Reasons Why I Have a Brand-New Tesla, a Full-Time Startup Job, an Online Side Hustle, and a Great Family, While You Retweet the Dalai Lama, Like a Loser”

“Actually, You Should Wake Up at 4:12 A.M.—Don’t Ask Me Why, It Just Sounds Right—and Nine Reasons We Should Cyberbully People Who Wake Up Later Than That”

“Nine Successful Renaissance-Era Popes Who Woke Up at 4 A.M. and the Completely Bonkers Inferences We Can Draw from Their Lives (Plus, My New Morning-Success Webinar!)”

“The 3:30 A.M. Wake-Up Manifesto: Nine Ways My Wife Argued I’m Being a ‘Bit Extreme’ and ‘Freaking Her Out’ and Nine Decisive Replies I Used to Defend My Unstoppable #HustleLife”

“What Time Do You Wake Up? Write It in the Comments and I Will Tell You Why You Are Bad and Lazy Compared with Me, a 3:15 A.M. Waker-er Upper Who Owns Not One but Two Vitamix Blenders”

“Nine Increasingly Shrill Alarm Clocks I Daisy-Chain in Nine-Minute Intervals to Wake Up at 2 A.M., Even Though My Body Screams, ‘No! Why?!’ ”

“Nine Near-Fatal Car Crashes I Caused by Waking Up Absurdly Early, Which Led My Wife to Ban Me from Driving My Kid to Soccer, and How I Turned These Little ‘Incidents’ Into Nine Money-Making E-Books About Success”

“My Wife and I Had a Heart-to-Heart and I’m Here to Tell You It’s O.K. to Have Hobbies, Relax a Little, and Wake Up by 8 A.M. YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF CRAP! HA HA HA, I Think the Heart-to-Heart Was a Hallucination from Prolonged Sleep Deprivation—Wake Up, You Jerk!”

“ ‘Man Is Not Meant to Wake Up’—and Nine Other Famous Inspirational Quotes I Fabricated in the Cold Darkness Because I Am Utterly Alone (Plus, My New Podcast!)”

“I Was Wrong, Waking Up Thirty Minutes After the Sun Sets Is Far Too Early, and I Paid the Price, Which Included Selling My Tesla, Downsizing My Side Hustle, and Capitulating to Nine Other Emotionally Painful but Ultimately Fair Demands My Wife Made, to Save Our Beautiful Marriage: A Memoir”

“Waking Up Around Noon Is Actually Pretty Awesome: Nine Reasons I’m Feeling a Lot Better, Getting Into Ceramics, and Calling My Family Daily from This Northern California Rehab Center for People Who Overdose on Context-Free Life-Hacking Articles”

“How to Crush the Pottery Game by Sleeping Fifteen Minutes a Night: Nine Ways I Turned a Relaxing Hobby Into an Obsessive Quest to Reclaim My #HustleLife and Dominate Reality (Plus, My New Ceramics-Empire-Building YouTube Channel!)”

“Nine Surprising Ways I Fell Off the Wagon and Started Waking Up Earlier Than Ever—One Full Week Before You Do—Which Doesn’t Even Make Sense, Yet, Somehow, Here I Am, Awake at Dawn, Screaming My Best Morning-Routine Advice at Tired People in a Run-Down Greyhound Bus Station”

“ ‘Please Come Home and Rest, You’re Scaring Us’: Nine Shocking Reasons My Loved Ones Text Me This Very Message Daily, but I Cannot Read Their Words, for My Phone Is Lost, and Time and Clocks Are Children’s Things and Hold No Sway Over Me in the Realm of the Shadow Fortress—Technically a Sewage Tunnel Where I Study the Arcane Secrets of #SuperHustleLifers, Who Possess Boundless Energy—and, Oh, How My Eyes Are Heavy and Lo, How the Sun Is a Monster but No, I Do Not Sleep, I Hold Fast, Because I Am a Winner Winner Steak Dinner”