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Tildylongstockings, what’s your morning routine?
Can’t make myself get out of bed and actually go do things (like get ready for work, or leave for work, namely.)
What’s the routine you have in the morning that keeps you functioning as an adult?
I've become quite a morning person during the recent years. (By accident at first, but I've grown to enjoy it)
First and foremost: Consistency! Don't expect to go to bed early once and be able to wake up early. I always go to bed ~8.5h before I need to get up. I try to keep up roughly the same schedule on weekends. (Usually ends up beign an hour later, and I skip the alarm), don't try to skrew your sleeping cycle up too much on weekends.
Now in the morning I get out of bed. That is the hardest part, once I'm up, I'm up. Needing to pee helps (I tend to drink half a litre before going to bed). Then I do a quick morning workout (depending on my mood a couple minutes HIIT, or a couple more minutes functional training), then take a shower. I've become enough of a morning person to have plenty of time to progress in Duolingo (which I mainly added to my morning routine, because I didn't feel like doing it after work), and then read for half an hour before having to leave towards the office. I'm not a breakfast person, so I usually skip it, but sometimes I sacrifice a couple minutes of my reading time if I'm hungry.
On the weekends I get up, read a bit, and go for a run or to the gym instead
I have a one year old. Waking up and getting up is no longer a problem I have.
I survive because of TEA. Even the little one understands that there will be no playing or even breakfast until the kettle has boiled and tea has been made. Before he was born it was the same to be honest. Stumble out of bed and make tea and everything else is do-able after that.
I'm bad at mornings. I set my alarm for about 6:30, and usually lay in bed half asleep until close to 7. Then running out of time, I spring out of bed, brush my teeth and such, get dressed, get my lunch together, all by about 7:20. I shower at night so it saves me some time in the morning and I'm out the door by 7:30. I would kill to have a better routine but so far this works for me. I'm not fully awake until about 8:30 in the morning once I've plopped down in front of the computer at work and browsed online for a bit. I don't technically start working until 9 so I've got some time in the morning to get into gear.
I hate getting up in the morning. My routine is usually waking up at 5:20, putting gym clothes on, brushing my teeth, making a pre-workout drink and filling my water bottle, and leaving the house at around 5:40. I get back from the gym at 7:10 or so, take a shower, go back to bed for a horrible fifteen minute nap, then make some coffee, drink some water, and go into my office at around 8 to start work. It's terrible but I've been doing it mostly consistently for three years or so.
I put my alarm clock / phone on my desk so I have to get up to stop it, otherwise I'd probably hit the snooze button way too often. Then:
When working from home / weekend: Get up at 5am, brush my teeth, go out for a run, shower, meditate for a few minutes (just started this a few days ago) and start with my work day.
When going to the office: Get up at 5am, brush my teeth, take the train/car to work, walk a longer detour to actually get to work from the train station, meditate in the evening before bed.
I usually set my alarm for 6:40am and will get up at that time maybe 25% of the time. If I don't, the dog usually scratches on the side of my bed or a door at 7:00am forcing me to get up regardless.
Afterwards, I take her out to pee really quick, then come back in for my shower routine. Today was a deviation, I bought some new razors and want to quickly order replacement cartridges before my ADHD makes me forget. I got distracted with Tildes being my home page and saw this topic so here I am posting about it now. Anyways, after this I will shower/shave, brush my teeth, put in contacts, put on some coconut-lime cologne, and get dressed. Then I will make my fiance coffee and get her computer set up while she wakes up and prepares for her day of work at home.
I then give the dog her food and medicine for the day and prepare a sandwich for lunch. Once the dog has finished eating, I take her outside one last time to try to coerce a #2 out of her. I usually give her 5-10 minutes before I give up and let her mom take her out later.
Finally, I will get my bike ready for my commute and leave for work!
The weekends are a bit different but I still have to get up at 7:00am because that dog just knows when it is time to potty and eat.
Wake up, shower, check my shorts for my stuff, out the butt in the saddle tornide to my destination. Coffee and breakfast (or lunch depending on the shift) are typically procured on the way (both destinations provide both, for a fee) unless I have to be particularly frugal that week.
The minutia change with what I'm doing that day, but I have my routine down to the point I can know I'll be where I need to be at work in 1hr 30 from the moment I get out of bed/start my routine and, and school within 2hr after I get out of bed.
I have a coffee machine with a timer, so I can set everything up before going to bed (which I know makes your coffee lower quality than fresh ground and fresh water, but it makes the coffee WHILE YOU SLEEP which is a pretty fair trade off) and then in the morning my alarm goes off, I snooze for 5 minutes, and then my coffee machine signals that it has coffee ready for me, which usually convinces me to get up.
I have a REALLY hard time waking up in the mornings, but having something I like ready for me, that doesn't require any work from me just yet, really helps. It never motivated me to have to get up to MAKE the coffee, but now that it's already finished, I'll usually be convinced to just go drink it. My alarm is also far enough away from my bed that I have to completely get out of bed to turn it off, which doesn't prevent me from getting back in bed to snooze, but gets annoying enough that more than a couple snoozes is crazy.
I do the same thing but with bread in a bread machine. Put all the ingredients in overnight, set the timer, wake up to the bread machine beeping and the smell of fresh baked bread. I have to get up and out of bed if I don't want the bread to develop a thicker crust from the remaining heat.
That and coffee are an excellent way to wake up.
I'm a night owl, and my mornings are shit. Tho it feels like it has mostly to do with my family: it's a family of night owls, when I am staying elsewhere, I sleep way earlier and wake up earlier.
I'm currently unemployed and the school has not started yet, thus when I wake up is totally inconsistent. But, when I wake up, my "routine"---for a lax interpretation of the word---is as follows: reach for the phone, check time, refresh RSS and podcasts, maybe browse a bit in the bed, do the bullet journal things, prepare coffee, actually process the feeds & podcasts (i.e. open tabs in Firefox Android which has a beautiful feature called the Tab Queue; and select which episodes to download for listening to later).
Hopefully I'll become more consistent with when I sleep and get up when I start school and work. When that happens, I'll add an overnight muesli into that routine; I love that as a breakfast but it's been more than a few months that I skipped it.
I baby-stepped my way to where I'm at now.
It started with doing small things for my wife before taking off for work, then it slowly morphed into where it's at now. I pretty much try to make sure anything that takes several minutes to complete is being done while I do something else; I really like finding ways to economize my time:
I'm trying to incorporate some basic exercise in there, but I hate exercising so much that it keeps falling off my schedule. I know it's lame/silly, but I might just try and get it in via my VR, like doing Beat Saber or Knockout League or something-- it seems only when it's gamified do I not have a problem with it.
I haven't found a consistent combination that wows me as much as the mysterious combinations they use at our local brunch spots.
Lately it's been two tablespoons nutritional yeast, and a teaspoon of garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, turmeric, and we just started trying out black salt, which took us forever to find. I didn't notice that big of an improvement, but my wife says it's made it awesome.
Well. My morning routine is very... lackluster, generally. However, I am planning to add some stuff in soon-ish.
Currently it's:
I'm hoping to incorporate a morning workout soon-ish, mainly because I feel like I kind of waste the 40 minutes. Might allow 1 snooze through, though.
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