My 5-9 Before My 9-5 - Maximize Your Morning Productivity

Read about my morning routine and how I am working on getting into a daily writing habit.

Rise Early to Harness the Power of Mornings for Personal and Professional Growth

I used to stay up late and play video games until midnight. Then sleep until 8 a.m. and drink copious amounts of coffee to be able to drive to my company and get my work started.

Gone are these days. I’m a morning person now! I wake up early. Sometimes even before 5 a.m. This is my ‘me-time’.

Today I want to talk about how I spent my 5-9. Or, let’s say, how I aspire to be. I want to be real here. Around 80% of the time, this is how my morning goes.

Sometimes, that is not how it works. If I have to drive to the office, which takes me up to 3 hours, I don’t have the luxury of following my morning routine. On other days, I lack the discipline to work out or to write. I attend an early meeting and get sucked into the 9–5 much earlier.

So here is my ideal morning routine, which I aspire to do every day.

The Quiet Power of Early Mornings

5-6 am: Around five in the morning, I wake up automatically (the perks of going t…