Jocko is the reason I get up when my alarm rings and immediately make the bed. Jocko has more interesting morsels of wisdom than this, of course, but it's funny how this small change impacted my life so much as he said it would.

Once you have the willpower victory of getting up immediately (no snoozing bullshit) and then the willpower victory of making your bed, it's not a stretch to also do 50 pushups, make a healthy breakfast, clean the kitchen, go for your morning run, avoid HN while you start work, and then carry that momentum into the rest of the day.

I agree, it compounds. It's all in building good habits, so that habitualness takes over and you don't even think about it.

Watching that man's twitter feed, posting the pic of his watch well before 5:00, and aftermath of his workouts is motivating in of itself.