Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”.
I read that Vice President Kamala Harris goes for a half-hour jog every morning before breakfast. This should be the ideal time to stimulate the adrenaline in the body and burn fat and much more. If you go jogging in the morning, you will be more productive and in a better mood throughout the day.
I have the feeling that if you want to know how many top executives, top politicians and top managers live in a city, all you have to do is hit the streets at five in the morning. There they are all jogging.
There’s this book called The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma. It says in a nutshell: the great leaders in politics and business have in common that they are already up at five in the morning and devote the first 60 minutes of their day to one person, the most important one: themselves. At five in the morning you can best to get clear about personal goals, feelings and next steps, the mind is fresh and focused before the day starts – with all his mails and messages, calls and meetings.
I once spoke to a top executive who saw the 5 O’Clock Club as more of a losers’ event. He gets up at four o’clock. He said before he goes to the office at eight o’clock he has already completed all the required tasks, e-mails and strategy papers. The rest of the day there is nothing else to do than talk to his employees and come up with new ideas.
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If you start work four hours earlier than the competition, you’re half a day ahead per working day, two weeks per month, and half a year per year. At some point you will live in a completely different era than the competition – in a distant future where the sleepy competitors may never arrive.
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There are prominent role models for the “4 AM Club”, such as the great Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who met his typists in the office at four in the morning to recite his inspirations to them while running in circles. So it seems to be going very smoothly for those who are already rotating while all the others are still curled up in their blankets.
While others are still dreaming, the early riser is already making his dreams come true.
The whole thing has just one catch: If we all got up at four or five o’clock, the lead would be gone again. Then everyday life would just start a few hours earlier. Then the early risers would have to go jogging in the dead of darkness and could break their ankles.
More than anything, the early risers need those people who sleep in for there to be any difference.
people like me Hope they say thank you for that.
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