![]() Zuckerberg's friends have shown interest in owning something similar. e goes on to talk about how making something for his wife "is one of the best ways I can think of to express my love and gratitude." She gets stressed when she wakes up at night and looks at the time on her phone and if it is time to go to her children."Īccording to Zuckerberg, this is helping his wife sleep better. And since it doesn't show the time, if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she knows to just go back to sleep without having to worry about what time it is. ".and between the hours of 6-7 am it emits a very faint light - visible enough that if she sees it she'll know it's an okay time for one of us to get the kids, but faint enough that the light won't wake her up if she's still sleeping. In the post, Zuckerberg says that the Sleep Box is on Chan's nightstand. Being a mother of two children can be stressful and Chan struggles with it like any other mother. The 'Sleep Box' emits a soft glow instead of showing the time, something Zuckerberg thought stressed out Chan as she went about her day raising two young kids. ![]() Oh, and don’t let anyone tell you to sacrifice sleep in favour of the ‘hustle and grind’.In a recent post on Instagram, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of a 'Sleep Box' he built for his wife Priscilla Chan to help her sleep better. Or Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, using his cat as an alarm clock to get up sometime in the mid-morning.įind a routine that suits you and go with that. Or Mark Zuckerberg getting up at 8am-ish. Fewer mention Winston Churchill waking up at 7am, rolling at of bed at 11am and having an hour-and-a-half nap at 5pm. There are all kinds of articles talking about how Apple’s Tim Cook is up and at ‘em at 3:45am, or how Richard Branson starts plotting space trips at five in the morning. Unless that's what works for you, of course. You don’t have to wake up at daft o’clock in the morning to be successful. Your brain might not even kick into gear until 9pm. They might recommend writing in the early afternoon. You might be crying into your bowl of Weetabix at that time. They might suggest filming a new marketing video at 8am when energy levels are high and you're feeling all amped. These crazy productive routines that ‘gooroos’ recommend are great… for THEM. But if I did, I wouldn’t choose to go at 5am. I could never, ever get up at 4am willingly. I’ve been getting up at that time for years, it's fine for me. Usually, on a ‘normal’ day, I get up between 6am and 7am, partly because I have to – kids are up, dog’s crying up the stairs – and partly because I’m used to it. I should have been gearing up for a bite to eat before cracking on with a big afternoon session.Īll I wanted to do was fall asleep in front of the tele. Actually, any inkling of me being arsed about the day disappeared the moment I stepped outside to walk the dog and got slapped in the face by the cold wind.Īccording to the daily routine of many a LinkedIn entrepreneur, midday should have seen at least four solid hours of work already in the bag. Productivity levels were through the floor. I counted down every one.īy midday, I was knackered. This day of all days, however, he decided to get up a little bit earlier, knowing fine well he could take a nap at some point – any point – later in the day.Ĥ:30am for me meant bedtime was at least 17 hours away. If my little boy woke up at his normal time he should have been making a racket about 5:20am (which would have been 6:20am the morning before – bloody clocks). They couldn’t give two shits about the extra hour in bed. Kids don’t know the clocks have gone back, so they wake up at what they think is normal waking up time. And, as parents of young kids will know, the clocks going back causes mayhem for about a week. The reason I was up at that time was out of my control. I did fit all that in before 7am, though. ![]() Instead, I watched kids’ TV for a bit, walked the dog and had breakfast. I didn’t go to the gym at 5am, have a gallon of coffee and start work at 6am, as per the 'hustle and grind' routine. I didn’t want to get up at 4:30am and I didn’t feel any better for doing so, especially after having gone to bed at about midnight the night before. It's usually about 4am for them, I think. Just like the growing army of entrepreneurs do, except not quite as early.
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