Your Morning Routine

LiE

LiE

LiE

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I've been going through a bit of a self improvement phase over the last few months and recently made a big effort to sort my mornings out, because quite frankly they were rubbish.

It started back in mid December when I decided to get off the stimulates aka caffeine to allow my body to properly rest and function once again in the morning. It took a while but now I can wake up 6.45am and hop straight out of bed and feel fresh. Previous I would mash the snooze button, eventually drag myself out of bed and make a coffee. I stumbled through my mornings with only one purpose -- to some how wake up before I started work at 9am.

Now that I could function in the morning I began to incorporate more things to set me up for the day. Here's my morning routine now and honestly it has such a positive effect on my whole day.

- Wake up 6.45 - 7.00am
- Breakfast at 7.30am - big bowl of protein porridge with berries, walnuts and chia seeds.
- Scottish Shower - the idea here is to go for a lukewarm shower and finish off with cold water. Feels amazing and has many benefits. Straight up cold showers are better but I figured this is more sustainable long term.
- Meditation - working my way through headspace courses. Having finished basics 1-3 I'm now starting pro.
- Workout 10am

After doing these things every morning I feel so focused and prepared for the day. It's such a contrast to my old way of waking up. I'd be very interested to hear what others do and what they have found sets them up properly for the day.

"If you win the morning, you win the day" - Tim Ferriss.​
 
Yesterday up at 5am 3 strong xl coffees, Internet and Netflix, back to bed at 7am for an hour or 2, skipped breakfast, shoved food in a rucksack, meditation done on beach after a surf, my only home exercise is a 16 kg kettle bell, can be a soap dodger sometimes
 
moon man said:
Yesterday up at 5am 3 strong xl coffees, Internet and Netflix, back to bed at 7am for an hour or 2, skipped breakfast, shoved food in a rucksack, meditation done on beach after a surf, my only home exercise is a 16 kg kettle bell, can be a soap dodger sometimes
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The schedule of champions!
 
- get woken up by cars around 5am
- moan about it
- have a bowl of frosties, and a tea, and a water
- SSS (I have very hot showers with bar soap, helps with skin probs)
 
Honestly just getting enough sleep is enough to set me up for the day. I get up, take a dump and have a shower before anything and I'm fine.
 
Weekdays:

7:30 - Wake up and have a cup of tea
7:45 - Wake up daughter and have a battle to get her to eat her breakfast, eat her second breakfast, get her nursery clothes on, brush her teeth, get her coat and shoes on, moan about wanting to watch TV, moan to stay at home as she knows daddy works from home now
8:30-8:45 - Drop her off at nursery
9:00 - Come home already stressed at the start of the day, have a quick shower and then try and get motivated to work from home

Weekends are much better. Usually spend and hour or so chilling out then go out for a long dog walk. Usually start prepping a roast dinner on a Sunday.
 
Monday to Friday I crawl from bed to desk chair at 8.58am.

Onto Ms Teams call (camera off).

Pretend I've been up for ages and care about what's being discussed on the call.

Drink multiple cups of coffee.

Shower about 4.45pm.

Pretend to wife that I've had a productive day when she comes in from work.
 
Very interested in this as I have a similar relationship with mornings, having been extremely good in them in the past however currently terrible.

Converge said:
Looks to me like you’re enjoying yourself more as you’ve binned off work at 9:00 judging by your schedule... ;)
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Yes I'd like to see how this fits in with your schedule now @LiE
 
montymint said:
Honestly just getting enough sleep is enough to set me up for the day. I get up, take a dump and have a shower before anything and I'm fine.
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This. Enough pressure to have a successful day than to already be a failure from the moment you wake up and decide you don't fancy that run.
 
3.30am - Wake up and have a wash.
3.40am - Coffee, PC on and check my emails.
4.00am - Get dressed, ready for work.
4.05am - Another coffee with my cereal.
4.30am - Brush my teeth.
4.40am - Leave for work.

This is before I was furloughed.

Now I get out of bed about 9.00am and live like a bum.
 
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meths said:
Monday to Friday I crawl from bed to desk chair at 8.58am.

Onto Ms Teams call (camera off).

Pretend I've been up for ages and care about what's being discussed on the call.

Drink multiple cups of coffee.

Shower about 4.45pm.

Pretend to wife that I've had a productive day when she comes in from work.
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Love it :D
 
Weekends up about 6-7 , wake up, bishop gets a bashing and then a shower, or maybe in the shower, depends where the missus is.
(Pregnant and constantly sick and unwell at the moment so no chance of anything)

Then it's downstairs wash any dishes, clean up, toast,decaf coffee then if the weather is nice, a walk.
If not, PC play time.

Weekdays alarm at either 5:00 or 6:30 then I roll straight out of bed quick wash and teeth and into the car.
 
Admiral William H. McRaven said:
Make Your Bed

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made — that you made — and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
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Hades said:
Make Your Bed

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made — that you made — and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
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Not to be a contrary Mary, but new guidance says to leave your bed unmade for at least the morning, as it lets all the grottyness dissipate :p
 
I don't see the benefit of a lukewarm /cold shower. It has a major disadvantage by not being warm and thus I won't like it.
 
6:30 wake up , go for a wee, go back to bed. Fart loudly, chuckle about it and nod off for another hour or so.
8:00ish wake up again, watch some youtube
8:45 get out of bed, log into work to show i'm eager, go for breakfast
9:30 start some work
 
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