the morning routine of Elon Musk it's a no-brainer that your morning routine plays a major role in giving you a great and productive day having a solid morning routine can be a deal-breaker when it comes to productivity and the overall quality of your life and this is why most experts in productivity coaches recommend activities like meditation and exercise at the start of each day for someone who is a billionaire and the CEO of two profitable companies Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk appears to be a role model when it comes to productivity and getting things done like most successful people in his class does his morning routine have a hand in this is there anything special Elon Musk does to fuel his success let's find out waking up how many hours do you spend sleeping every night do you adhere to the recommendation by health experts saying eight hours of sleep is needed for optimal performance it appears this rule doesn't apply to everyone an Elon Musk is one of those individuals appear to be doing well without the average eight hours of sleep every night according to musk he only needs six hours of sleep the billionaire is often up until after midnight and wakes up by 7 a.m. to respond to important emails for half an hour while there is a consensus that successful people are notoriously early risers the key is to structure your day in the most productive manners the CEO of Apple Tim Cook wakes up at 3:45 a.m. every morning Mark Zuckerberg sleeps in until 8 a.m. and Aaron Levie co-founder and CEO of box wakes up at 10 a.m. I believe the idea of waking up early is to take advantage of a few hours of solitude before everyone else wakes up and your entire world becomes noisy you are expected to enjoy fewer phone calls from your boss or colleagues and fewer interruptions from your kids or spouse at 5:00 a.m. this allows you to be proactive instead of reactive it also allows you to set your agenda for the day early alternatively you may decide to shift your quiet hours to the night when everyone else has gone to bed and this is what I think Elon Musk is doing the bottom line is whether you wake up at 3:00 in the morning every day or at 10:00 a.m. you can still structure your day to make the most of it what matters is what you accomplish during the hours you work on this note figure out what works best for you exercise and breakfast ilan must seems to go against the tide in so many areas not only does he sleep below the recommended number of hours but he also skips things such as exercise and breakfast in most cases the experts certainly don't recommend this must hits each day running or rather working after waking up at 7:00 a.m. the next thing on his agenda is to respond to urgent and important emails for about 30 minutes he takes a quick shower sends his sons to school and then drives to work interestingly breakfast which has been crowned the most important food of the day is hardly on mas menu according to him he is too busy to eat breakfast and occasionally goes out of his way to grab some coffee the fact that musk is not a fan of exercising or nutrition is a total no for me other successful entrepreneurs will often stress the importance of physical exercise to keep the body and mind in shape similarly proper nutrition is necessary to ensure good health and a sound mind musk may have been able to get away with the lack of these two activities but he may eventually pay the price in his old age as an entrepreneur it is easy to get caught up in the cycle of getting things done and crushing new milestones however you will need your mind and body to keep grinding treat them right and they will give you their best productive hours once musk is at the office it is all work while a typical employee works for 40 hours a week musk has been known to work for up to 100 hours per week to put this in perspective musk spends an average of 16 out of 24 hours working everyday in some of his speeches musk has been known to encourage young people to work super hard in his early days running a company with his brother he can be quoted saying he worked seven days a week all the time as an entrepreneur and CEO must spends 80% of his time engineering and designing next-gen products his focus is so intense that he avoids calls while working he often says focus on signal over noise don't waste time on stuff that doesn't actually make things better if you want to do something great keep distractions away this is one of the lessons you can pick from Musk's morning routine sometimes you have to turn off those notifications and focus on the real work you may not have a razor-sharp focus like Elon Musk but dividing your time into duck devours of 90 minutes could be helpful and easy to manage during those 90 minutes turn off all notifications and focus on the work at hand in summary although musk has a pretty rigid morning routine the results speak for themselves lay your results do the talking finally musk is not all work in his free time he sees movies hangs out with friends and enjoys first-person shooter games with his five kids he has also been known to its end in throw occasional wild parties