Why Your Wake-Up Time Doesn’t Define Your Success

It’s time to stop being one of ‘those people’

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Let me start by saying I have no qualms with people who wake up early. I actually admire those who can get up at 4am or 5am, get a head start on the day, and be in bed by 9 or 10pm.

However, this all started when I was talking to a colleague who wakes up at 5am every day. It’s their thing. They enjoy it.

But then they said something that made me pause.

I swear everyone who wakes up early are way more successful than others...

Ok…hang on a minute.

So you’re telling me that waking up early equals being successful? First of all, success is subjective — it has different definitions depending on who you ask. Second, are you really telling me that every CEO, entrepreneur, artist, or famous person wakes up at the crack of dawn?

I know exactly where I had heard this before. Benjamin Franklin famously said:

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

But that got me thinking: which famous CEOs, artists, or celebrities are the so-called lazy starters of the world?