The #1 habit for success

This one habit completely changed my performance!

Knowing this now, I feel like I wasted years of my life! And you’re probably wasting years of yours as well

When I started my first company, my schedule was chaotic.

I would work every day, the entire day, into late nights.

Barely exercising. Barely having time for myself

When I was done with work, I needed to watch a 30 min comedy show just to wind down. No matter how late it was!

And so I started doing what everyone recommends – wake up early

I thought that would be the end all for success. A promise of more time for myself, avoid rush hour and see the sunrise every day

It’s all very pretty – except it’s not the actual secret

I kept doing the exact same thing, just burning the candle at both ends. Going to bed late, waking up early

What good is waking up at 5 or 6am, if you went to sleep at midnight?

You’re gonna wake up exhausted, with no motivation and getting ready to fall asleep again

The actual secret is “GO TO SLEEP EARLY”

I started going to sleep between 9:45 and 10pm every day

Everything changed after that

I started feeling energized. No need for coffee

I woke up, went for a run, got to the office before anyone else and got 1 to 2h of deep work

Focused, no noise, no meetings

To this day, that’s the #1 non-negotiable habit that keeps me grounded

It’s one of the things I told my wife when we started creating a life together. “I always want to go to bed early”

Sometimes we want to watch a longer movie or show in the evening to relax. And we do that – we’re not robots!

But we always try to get our 8h of sleep, during the week and the weekend