I don’t think I learned anything revelatory or new from this book but it was a good reminder of suggestions and changes I can make to improve my lifestyle.

Do you have one of those annoying friends? You know the type — they get up at four in the morning to go running. They run marathons in their spare time for fun. Then they sit there in judgment of you whilst they drink their cucumber water and you drink — oh my god is that coffee? Caffeine is so bad for you. Yeah, you should just get high on life and get your energy from running at four in the morning. Well, now you can have that friend without the messiness of an actual relationship. Just subscribe to Adrienne's podcast and read the book. Power Hour, which gets its name from the podcast, is all about how you should get up an hour early to work on your dreams. Your annoying friend is probably right — that's what makes them so annoying — but at least they have their uses. They hold you to account, call you out on your bs, and try to keep you motivated. It's amazing what you can achieve in one hour per day when you set your mind to it. Even if you would prefer to spend that hour sleeping.

This book is nothing new in terms of habit forming or being productive.
"set aside an hour of your day each morning when the world is still asleep" is something that's been in every blog post for at least the past decade.

Power Hour is a book to read when feeling uninspired and needing some motivation. There are many great take aways in this book and Adrienne is really good at outlining how to achieve your goals.

I have highlighted many parts and planned to keep going back to them, every time I need some nudging.

Thanks Netgalley for my digital ARC copy in exchange of a honest review.

I was impressed by this book, or, more by the author's personal story of how she overcame the odds to create her career, podcast, and book. I work in personal development, and I'm way beyond there age group I think the book appeals to, so, though I liked it I can't comment on it's usefulness from my own experience. However, I bought it and gave it to a young man I know who was having some difficulties and, bingo! It seems to have been the trigger he needed.

A rather word heavy book on setting goals, be it movement, sleep, dealing with people or having a purpose and using that first hour of the day to set yourself up.

There are a number of case studies throughout the book alongside a lot of the authors own experiences.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

Adrienne Herbert’s ‘Power Hour’ is a valuable read, and while I don’t necessarily think it has changed my mindset fully, I thought it was an interesting, important and encouraging book. It took me way longer than expected to read ‘Power Hour’, mainly because I was determined to read it only if I woke up early enough to have time for it before work or other responsibilities. Something that doesn’t necessarily happen often for me, I guess I’m still a little work in progress when it comes to applying power hour to my life every day.

‘Power Hour’ encourages you to wake up early – preferably before 6 am, when there are no distractions – and focusing for the first hour of your day on your goals. It can be done via running, stretching, journaling or reading, depending on the day and a person. The point is, that dedicating the first hour of your day to your goals and yourself, set you positively for the whole day and makes you more productive and feel better throughout the whole day. Why I cannot claim, I have achieved that yet, and I’m able to get up much earlier every day, I definitely think that there’s something in it. On those occasions, when I rise earlier and either spend a little time reading or writing before I need to start work, I feel much better. More refreshed. Less stressed.

I think I enjoyed the first part of ‘Power Hour’ more, where the advice felt more practical and more applicable, but overall, I think it’s an important read especially for those who feel like they are always too busy and like they don’t have time for anything.

I'd heard of the concept of a power hour before, but more in relation to getting all your household chores done in one week! Power Hour is a great concept and it is well explained and executed in this easy-to-digest book. There are tons of useful tips on steps you can take to move towards your goals, without having to "transform" your life. The overall concept may not work for everyone (an hour is an awfully long time to dedicate when you're just starting out), but it was an interesting read nonetheless.

Power Hour: How to Focus on Your Goals and Create a Life You Love by Adrienne Herbert is about carving time for yourself to work on your goals, and the suggestion for when to have your power hour is early in the morning - 5am.

As someone who often wakes up at 5am, this is something I really agree with!  I do most of my reading early in the morning, and can sometimes be found blogging then as well. 

The idea of Power Hour is that you set your goals and use this time to help you achieve them, as it's time that you have no other commitments during.

This book has suggestions and actions for you to carry out to help you see this time as helpful.  I enjoyed reading the book and learning about how Adrienne Herbert uses this time.

 Power Hour: How to Focus on Your Goals and Create a Life You Love  was published on 31 December 2020, and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

You can follow Adrienne Herbert on  Instagram ,  Youtube  and  Facebook .

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to  Penguin Random House .

A kind of self help book, the whole just saying that of you get up an hour earlier and do loads of stuff it will motivate you for the rest of the day and you'll achieve more.

A book full of sound practical advice to make your goals seem achievable. Straightforward style and really imparts the sense that goals can be set and achieved.

I was worried that this would be one of those self-satisfied and bossy books. The ones that make you feel like you're living your worst life unless you leap out of bed at 3.30am every morning, chug a [insert latest must-have superfood] juice, go for a 10-mile hill run wearing a rucksack full of concrete bricks, and then gently polish your chakras before you start work.

Although getting up early is a big part of the power hour, thankfully, it’s not about slavishly copying someone else’s routine. Or adopting their definition and measures of success. It’s about deciding what you want and why, not allowing procrastination to get a look-in and taking action to reach your goals.

I thought the whole book would centre on the power hour, but you don’t get to that until the very end. The chapters leading to it explore the essentials that need to be in place if you’re going to achieve what you want. Mindset, developing helpful habits, physical activity (not just exercise, anything that involves being up and about and moving your body), sleep, support from other people and knowing what your purpose is.

The parts I found most interesting were the ones about sleep and creating your own power hour. I’m fond of a self-help book, so the ideas in the other chapters were ones I’d come across before. The scary facts quoted from Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep, (for example, “Insufficient sleep has strong causal links to every major disease in the developed world, including Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity and diabetes”) convinced me to take getting 7-8 hours of shut-eye a night a lot more seriously. And I liked the explanation of how you can slice up your power hour in different ways.

Power Hour’s a relatable and easy read and, depending on your situation, the suggestions are doable. They’re not rocket science, but they’re good reminders that an effective way to work towards what you really want is to chip away at it. And it’s best to do this first thing in the morning, before your responsibilities, and other people’s to-dos and demands, start hoovering up your time, attention and headspace.

I'd recommend this to anyone who knows they want to make small but meaningful changes in their life, but isn’t quite sure where to start.

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This book looks to show readers how they can harness the first hour of their day to achieve their goals.

The authors writing is relatable and motivating.

This book has helped me to focus on my goals and to strike a balance in my life. I am now fulfilling my needs as well as those of my family.

Thanks to NetGalley and to Cornerstone at Random House UK for an advance copy of this book. 

Although I love the concept of this book and I was excited to read it, as far as I was concerned, it failed to deliver. Too much content was taken from other sources with hardly any research of the author's own. 

Honestly, if I want to know what X expert thinks of Y subject, I'd sooner buy their product. I wanted to see Herbert's take and opinion, but this was sadly lacking.

The basic message seems to be that, so long as you get up at 5am (unlikely), you can pretty much achieve anything you want to. But really, any time management process will help you to do that. 

I was disappointed with this book.

The Power Hour is a lively book that is quite engaging in its style. Unfortunately there was nothing new included. All advice has been done and said before and the idea of getting up an hour earlier and using this hour to have a positive impact on your life has been well documented in many forms. On a positive note the authors writing style is very good and it is an easy read. A good book for anyone new to the subject especially those just starting out, and maybe a bit of a reminder to those of us who have heard it all many times before.

A departure from my regular fiction reads, I had seen Adrienne on social media and her book interested me. It’s really beautifully written with personal stories, which I found inspiring and motivating, a really nice January read. I think it could be a useful tool to return to again and again.

There are some interesting ideas in this book, although there's nothing in particular that I didn't already know. Naturally, each time someone writes about this subject, they put it in their style and with their particular spin on it. I enjoyed the way it was written, and there were some useful reminders. Basically, Adrienne explains the benefits of the power hour. That hour in the morning before everyone else is up when you can focus on something of particular importance to you, whether that's a run or a yoga session, writing journaling, reading etc.

I read this during the third UK lockdown in January 2021 and to be honest, that may be impacting my lack of engagement with this book. I read it hoping that it would stir up some motivation and get me going, but it's not had that effect. I'm sure other people may read it and get more positive and productive results. Unfortunately, the advice and guidance didn't suit me right now.

I understand that the author has a podcast too, so the book did encourage me to look these up and I may well dip into one or two of those to see if listening to others' experience has more impact.

The one interesting thing I did take away from the book, was that the author wrote it mostly during her power hour and so I congratulate her on her own motivation and staying power.

This is an interesting idea about claiming back a little bit of our lives. I do however think that if you are of the mindset and have the body rhythm to rise at five am.,you probably already do it!

I found this a really inspirational book. While I have no plans to get up at 5.30am and jump straight into some exercise, it has made me start 6.30am start routine where I take an hour to be just me and think of what I have coming up before the kids wake up. Very helpful book.

Having seen this spoken about on a website I thought I’d request it. An interesting read and contains some useful tips that I will try.