Hi Hubski !
This last week, I lingered in bed and I felt like I lost some time sleeping more than necessary. I'm going to try to change my morning routine to something healthier to start the day on a better note.
As of now, it goes like this :
- Wake up (or sleep more than necessary) ;
- Take a cup of coffee (sometimes I skip this one) ;
- Take a shower ;
- Brush my teeth ;
- Get dressed ;
- Pack my things and go.
What is your morning routine, and why ? Do you eat something ? Do you workout ? How long is it ?
• Wake up at 6:30 • Down a 500 ml bottle of water • Brush my teeth, splashing my face with cold water at the end a few times • I'll step out onto my deck to see the sun on the lake and do a few sun salutations bare chested. It wakes up my body through the range of motion my joints and body moves through and, because it's still chilly up here (a smidge under freezing this morning), through the cold. I love it. • Journal, the prompts each day being roughly "what are a few things that I am grateful for, including a sensory input" and then "what would make today awesome" and while answering the second question, I only include things that I have agency over ("it'd be great if I went to bed early" as opposed to "it'd be awesome if I met the love of my life" as neat as that'd be). These prime me for a more aware and conscious day. I also end each day with a little bit of follow up.
• Cook breakfast, maybe eggs or some cereal. • Dress completely and then read a little bit before work, which in this case is a minute walk to the maintenance shop as I live on a cabin on the grounds.
If the job required my waking earlier, I'd adjust to be able to comfortably include my routine. I used to be a slides out of bed twenty seconds before the bus leaves for work kind of person. I became hooked to the kind of calm, more aware living that giving myself time in the morning enables.
Your morning routine is my Nirvana. How have you been able to establish this peaceful and fulfilling start to every day? Is it hard to be consistent with this routine?
It required some experimenting. For example, I liked the feeling of getting my thoughts down on paper, but it took me a year or so of writing somewhat sporadically before I realized that I like prompted journaling more than open-ended, recap-of-my-day styled journaling. I watched on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars getting Coffee that he, Jerry, has splashed water on his face every morning to wake up for the last thirty something years, or something. I was blown away by that. I had sometimes washed the sleep out of my eyes, but the power of that ritual made a mark on me. I brush my teeth religiously because I used to not brush my teeth with any regularity and smoked on top of it, too. I got so grossed out by it that it became a cornerstone of my morning (and evening) rituals for a while. I would announce it to my girlfriend, and she pointed out how odd it was that I announce it, and I announce it because it's practically novel to me. That's pretty gross, right? Yea. I hear that you're supposed to drink at least 2.5 liters a day, so I start my day with a fifth of that requirement. Experiment! Find out what sticks. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago or, if failing that, today. You'll amass data about yourself, what works and what doesn't. In searching for what could work, be guided by the principle of doing that which primes you most for productivity, creativity, or serenity.Your morning routine is my Nirvana. How have you been able to establish this peaceful and fulfilling start to every day? Is it hard to be consistent with this routine?
I'm still in the Mitten! But I live in Oscoda now, which is about three and a half hours outside Detroit. You don't have a summer home up in "God's Country" do you? (I swear someone told me that's what northern Michigan is called.)
Success and failure are found in granularity. Succeed one morning. Succeed another morning, and do it again. Fail once? Who cares, try again and see if you can succeed the next time. I'm going to stop now because I should be finishing a paper and the word 'succeed' is starting to look made up. Point being, do well long enough and it will become a habit. Until it becomes habit don't sweat failures, because hey, it's just one morning, and I'm going to bet folding money that there will be another one in roughly 24 hours. Is it hard to be consistent with this routine?
YOURE FUCKING LATE PABS IM COMING MOM HOLD ON ITS 7:50 PABS, HOW ARE YOU GETTING TO SCHOOL ON TIME IF THE BELL RINGS IN 5 MINUTES? IM RUNNING MOM, JUST GIVE ME A SECOND HURRY UP!!!!! OKAY MOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
I want to slap all of you that complain about sleeping too much. My routine: Stay up too late working on music, hubskiing or watching a movie. -tonight it will be podcasting I hope but I'm waiting on mk, insomniasexx, lil, steve and theadvancedapes to send me audio. Then I fall asleep around 1 or 2am. I then get woken up, even on the weekends sometime between 6:30 or 7:30 am by my daughter saying, "Daddy, it's time to get up and play with me." My typical response is "where is your mommy," but the kid only wants to play with me. -which at any other time later in the day is a compliment but not so much at 6:30am after four or five hours of sleep. I then wake up, have coffee and "play" for a few minutes, i check my email and respond accordingly, I jump in the shower after doing some dishes or straightening up, brush teeth, get dressed and then I take my daughter to violin class, then I grocery shop for the week, then I come home and clean my office and do laundry. By this time it's about 11am. That's my Saturday morning routine.
At the meetup wasoxygen and I were discussing how when you switch from high school to college, you think you used to have it easy. Then you when you switch from college to career, you think you had it easy. Then when you have a kid, you think you had it easy before that. I'm surprised there isn't evidence that parenthood decreases lifespan.
Exactly. If it actually decreased lifespan you'd be gone by now.
damn, is work harder than school? I'm starting an internship on monday, 9-5 job and I was actually looking forward to all the free time i'll have compared to school. I mean, yeah it's 8h a day but there is the huge difference that the hours are predictable (not so much in school, kinda fucks you up to have to wake up at 7 or 11 depending on the day), i'm guessing not so much stress and finally you don't spend every waking hour worrying and trying to organize everyone and their crazy schedule to meet up to do the project. I was counting on the fact that I would do my 8h every day and then have alllll the rest of the day to do whatever I want and enjoy life for once. I mean, I ain't got no kids and live with my parents so as a spoiled brat i don't really need to do laundry of cook a lot... Is work still harder than school!?you switch from college to career, you think you had it easy
I don't miss school at all. The environment was more social, and there was a variety of things to do, but there was always some awful deadline looming. Sunday nights sucked. There are deadlines at work, but they only stress you out at work. It is great to leave at 5 p.m. and be free. Sundays are wonderful. It does help if you can postpone domestic responsibilities. I have more stress from my personal to-do list than I do from work duties. But there are also good reasons that most people follow the typical trajectory. There is a lot of satisfaction to be had from answering the challenges of the catastrophe, and a lot of benefit to being part of a family.[Spouse], children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.
-wake up -hold a plank for 1 min while in bed -coffee & 4 fiber rich toast with raspberry marmalade -run 20 minutes (just enough to sweat, not enough to dread it) -Shower & brush teeth -coffee & 1 fruit -write 30 min (just enough to write ~500 word, not enough to dread it) -indulge in unfit, unclean, unhealthy, lazy, unproductive activities for the rest of the day... Hey my morning routine make me earn it!
-Start small (1 pushup , write 100 words, just smile to 1 beautiful stranger, etc ) so you wont fall off of the habit. -Trigger it with one of your actual habit (after brushing teeth, after your meal, after checking your mail, etc) -Overly congratulate yourself after you did it (take a victory pose, sing a powerful song, do a happy dance, etc)
There was a post on reddit a few day ago about creating good habits: It was a good read, with some explanation for how the brain work for each of those steps.
Commuting to work is the only highlight of my weekday mornings: a nine-mile bike ride on good days, or more often a short bike ride and half an hour on the train. Weekends are hard to manage, but I know what I like to do. This morning I woke up at 6:30 and checked the weather. Part of me hoped for rain to excuse more sleeping, but I had no such luck and it was a gorgeous May day. I slipped out and changed into the running gear I had set out. But before running I stopped by Cars & Coffee, a celebration of early-rising boys and their toys. It was 7:30 before I arrived, so I had to park way around back. My favorite was a lovely Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint. (Tesla roadster in background.) I got a shot of an Austin-Healey 3000 for a friend. I was in line behind a uniformed police officer for coffee, through whom I met the owner of an old Lancia I had seen several times before. He showed off the car and claimed, credibly, that it is rarer than any of the shiny new Ferraris parked nearby. The run was about 8 miles along my favorite local route: through the ancient gorge cut by Difficult Run on its way to the Potomac. I made friends with dogs and their walkers on the way out, then hustled back to make a ten-minute pace. One photo sums it up. Back home by 11:30 and my weekend was complete.
Wake up at 11 or 12 Stumble downstairs to the computer Check accounts Stumble upstairs Make lunch Brush teeth It's a loose definition of morning.
6:10 wake up, do some push-ups, splash water on my face, 6:20-30 shower, check the weather, dress, 6:45 breakfast with a relatively consistent cast of characters, 7:15 either cramming or cello-practicing until 7:53, 8:00 class
Most days it includes demure and a handful of our fellow semi-early-riser-friends. Sometimes my roommate if she feels like getting up. It's nice to have that one meal a day that isn't super rushed. I say cast of characters because it's been almost the same group of people for the past three years, and it absolutely never gets boring.
Make a pot of coffee and, if I've woken up in time for it, call in to the daily 10:30 work conference call. Catch up on rss feed, hubski and email while half-listening. Make more coffee, pace around for however long it takes to finish the coffee and smoke a couple of cigarettes Shower
Morning and I are not friends.
- Wake up - do some guided mindfulness exercise whilst laying down - have a good cup of coffee, check mail and my to do list. - take a shower and start working on my startup (I work from home these days)
I wake up at 5:40 and drink a big glass of water. Then, I either lie in bed for a while or vape. Out of the shower by 6:45, finish walking the dog by 7:15. On the train by 7:25. Arrive at work by 8:05, breakfast and coffee are done by 8:30 and then I teach. I need to make time to work out though . . .
I have an app on my phone called morning routine. Its an alarm clock with steps. It allows you to set it up to turn off you alarm via qr code or barcode or whatever. I have it set up to scan my shampoo when I need to get in the shower. Because once I'm in the shower, I'm awake and moving. 2 minutes umano 5 minutes email 5 minutes slack 10 minutes hubski 20 minutes shower 10 minutes get ready. Cigarette. Start work (1 hour later).
Routine is good. Still looking for one I like. I love mornings. I love the light and the quiet.
When I really want to be productive I go with -Wake up -Coffee (Blended with coconut oil and a dash of vanilla extract) -Shower -Green breakfast smoothie, more coffee and supplements in the most bioavailable forms I've been able to find. (B12, Vitamin C, Fish Oil, a probiotic) This has been my pre-exam regimen for about the past 1.5-2 years and it's never failed me.
Ah, the beauty of boarding school. - 6:15 alarm -- snooze to 6:25 -6:45 breakfast - scrambled eggs, generally spinach-tomato somethin' or other', fruit/yogurt -7:15 some shit I need to do in the morning. Includes coffee Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday + 1 extra day -8:00 class.
- Get up around 8:30-9:00 - drink coffee - get some protein in my body ( I love breakfast food) - get on with my day. I shower in the evenings, usually ( a habit i'm seriously considering changing over the summer), as well as pre-packing things i need for the next day. I'm notorious for forgetting things in the morning, so to counteract that I prep my bag at night so that I don't have to worry about it. I'm surprised at the amount of early risers here on hubski, though I guess I shouldn't be. A lot of very productive people, doers, get up early. Hubski's full of doers.
Wake up at six. 6-7 eat breakfast, read, watch the Daily Show/Daredevil until I run out of episodes (IT'S SO GOOD) 7-8 do some homework/work on a project/journal, shower, sit in the center of the living room and meditate. 8-9 If I have class at 9, get on the bus. If I have class at 10 or 11, repeat the steps in 7-8 until class starts.