Remote Life - Early Morning Work Strategies & Tactics

When your team is remote and working in an earlier time zone - there’s lifestyle adjustments.

These are tips I found helpful when working earlier:

• sleeping early
• personalized way to wake up
• cardio work out early

Sleeping Early

As a knowledge worker, your brain is critical to your work performance. When you wake up earlier, this is doubly true.

When you sleep early, you wake early, and your mind is ready to work.

When you sleep late and wake early, your mind can be mush.

Find a sleep routine that gets you sleeping early consistently.

Since I have kids, I would goto bed the same time as them (or do my best to try!)

Personal Alarm

When getting up earlier than everyone else in your home, having a way to wake you up that does not wake everyone else in your home will make everyone happy.

My recommendation is using Apple Watch to wake you up. Wear it to sleep (that can track your sleep now) and set it to silent. The alarm will vibrate on your wrist and the vibration on your wrist bone will wake you up. I beleive there are other personal devices will fulfill this.

The goal is the same: find a way to only wake YOU up and keep everyone else in your home sleeping.

Cardio Workout

Another way to help with getting ready for early work is to do a workout that is intense on your cardiovasular system.

By getting blood pumping, you will get adrenaline going, be alert sooner, and have a hard time sleeping again.

My recommendation is a burpee workout.

Goal is to get your heart rate going!

Overall

Working remotely with a team in an earlier time zone takes adjustment and doing things to help you be alert earlier in the day such as doing a workout that pumps your heart, having a personal alarm clock that doesn’t wake others, and sleeping earlier all help make the early remote lifestyle better for you and everyone around you.