Early Riser Interview
with Tyler Tervooren from AdvancedRiskology.com
Today I want to share another great early riser interview with all of you! I have been talking to the adventurous risk taker Tyler Tervooren, author of AdvancedRiskology.com.
Tyler, can you start by telling me about your normal morning routine?
I actually have a pretty rigid morning routine that works well for me. As soon as I wake up, I get dressed and go work out. I have a 45 min. routine I do six days a week. From there, I take 10 minutes to cool down and scan my email to see if there's anything urgent. Then it's in the shower, a sit down breakfast with no computer, etc., then straight to work, which is at my desk a few feet from the kitchen table...
So are you an early riser?
Well, I'm not really. Except when I am. I don't really keep an alarm clock anymore. I wake up when my body feels like waking up, and I arrange my day from there. During the winter, this often means sleeping in quite a lot, but during the summer I'm sometimes up by 5 every day for weeks on end.
Tell me, what upsides and downsides do you see from rising early?
I don't see a benefit to one over the other. It doesn't matter if you're an early riser or a night owl as long as you're not trying to force your body into a pattern it doesn't like. The important thing to do is to harness your energy when you have it. Some people have it in the morning, others have it late at night.
If you're naturally more energetic at night, then trying to force yourself to wake up really early probably isn't great. I mean, you can force your body to do almost anything—it's a pretty incredible machine—but it adds unnecessary stress to it. If you have a choice in the matter, I wouldn't try to force myself to be an early riser if my body didn't naturally agree with it.
How do you manage to keep your energy level high throughout the entire day?
I also don't try to hard to fight this, either. I just accept who I am and how my body likes to work. Life is much better this way.
I have a lot of energy in the morning, so I use it up. In the afternoon, it wains a bit, so I don't try to do any important work then. It usually picks up again in the evening, and I try to bust out some work before bed.
Finally, would you like to add anything else to this subject?
One thing I can say is that it's probably best to at least find a pattern for yourself that you can stick to that allows you private time. As long as you have time in your day that you can get your most important work done without being distracted by other people, you're probably going to be okay.
About Tyler Tervooren
Website: AdvancedRiskology.com - Better Living through Uncertainty
Tyler Tervooren is a writer, adventurer, and risk taker on a quest to join the top 1% of the world. He loves helping people do scary things that improve their lives and he continuously write great posts on his site.
I just want to say thank you Tyler for sharing your thoughts in this early riser interview! You have provided us with some good thoughts into your living as at least a partial early riser.
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