Better Sleep
I started waking up earlier, kept my mouth shut and watched a cascade of positive effects roll through my house.
I got the idea after calling myself out about my self-prescribed sleep "aids" and from Jocko's book.
The hook in Jocko's book was his observation that 4:55am is more than ten minutes better than 5:05am.
I began to wake up in the "4s" in February. After two weeks my body adjusted and I don't need an alarm to do it.
Monica asked me "why" => "All I was doing was scrolling social media for 90 minutes after the kids went to sleep."
I was wasting a key advantage => I need less sleep than my kids.
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The game is "do whatever before 5am then one useful task."
As the family wakes up... it's on and I'm drawn back to the family (sometimes from the middle of a workout).
Jocko's point --predawn is the only time we truly own.
Other tips...
If you want to go to sleep then wake up - same time every_single_day - with travel, I stay on my home time zone.
I always have a cushion of sleep available by going to sleep at the same time as my kids and waking up at the same time as usual.