After I walk the kids to school I just keep walking. Sometimes it’s ten minutes, sometimes it’s an hour. I come home with a clear head and ready to be productive.
“…sometimes it’s whole months. I take the battery out of the phone and just walk into the desert, ready to embrace the wilderness.”
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“All my flesh had turned to fur and my thoughts they surely were turned to instinct and obedience to God.”
“As I howled at the moon after burying deep my latest prey, I bumped into my kids gym teacher who reminded me to pick up my kids by 4.”
Sleeping in.
Keeping my pre-workout drink at my bedside table. It made more of a difference than I expected.
I stay in bed as long as possible with my SO looking at stupid memes or talking and just snuggling sometimes more. I wouldn’t change the closeness for the world, puts me in a good mood to start the day. Reminds me that the love is what matters, not work bs.
It took about a decade to undo the conditioning I gained in college and grad school to wake up every day at noon. Now, ten years later in my early 40s, I’m able to wake up at 10 am.
Biggest one for me was swapping from setting the alarm as late as possible and then rushing to get out of the house, to setting it an hour earlier and using that to read, do a little qi gong and have a leisurely breakfast.
Absolutely agree. It’s counterintuitive, but waking up earlier than you need to and start your day slowly actually makes you feel more rested and calm (provided you’ve still slept sufficiently)
First thing in the morning I chug a tall glass of water. Somehow that’s actually made a healthy difference.
Any general effects you’ve noticed?
Not the previous commenter but I do the same thing and I find it makes me feel less foggy in the first couple hours of waking up and helps me want to eat breakfast.
“helps me want to eat breakfast”
So my brother used to wake up and slam down like 20oz of water in the morning. He noticed it gave him a huge appetite for breakfast and all throughout the day. Ends up that this is an exersize that competitive eaters do. From my understanding, It stretches your stomach out, and the water drains out pretty quickly leaving it empty and ready for a big meal.
My skin doesn’t dry as easily. I no longer feel the need to lotion my hands all the time. Obviously, I drink water during the day but this was the change that started that.
Everything just felt healthier. I woke up more easily for my 6am start at work.
Before I started doing that, it sometimes felt like staying hydrated was constant catching up. Now, it’s more just maintaining.
First thing I do in the morning is dread life itself and my parents choice to have me, then I wish i would die for 5 min, and then I take a glass of water. Also works
Same without the water
Does it work?
It doesn’t, and apparently neither do I
Not eating breakfast. Seriously. Breakfast is to blame for a lot of obesity. The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is an invention.
I came to post always eating breakfast. I prepare overnight oats and eat it when I wake up and its helped a lot with concentration. There’s definitely something to be said about a lot of marketed greasy or sugary breakfasts
Unhealthy US* breakfast doesn’t help with obesity. Just don’t eat shit food
Getting out of work at 6am.
Wake up at the same time (6am)
Chill for 10 minutes in bed
Make a coffee top go
Walk for 30 minutes.
Work from home
Finding a job that works with my night owl behavior. It’s not laziness if I sleep the same amount you do.
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I tried the alarm on the other side of the room thing and it consistently ruined my day. Put me in a frustrated and pissed off mood from the start. Now I just force myself to get out of bed immediately when the alarm goes off, no excuses and no snoozing allowed. It sucks, but I’m never late.
All bets are off on the weekend, alarms are only for a damn good reason.
I did something similar during Covid while working from home. I bought a pack of NFC tags and stuck one on the other side of my room. When my alarm went off I had to open the app on my phone to scan the tag to switch it off, worked well the majority of the time.
There’s an app that uses a QR code system for something similar that’s available for free for those interested.
QRAlarm
I did this too. Eventually I set the alarm for earlier so I could get out of bed to shut it off and still have time to get back to sleep.
Commuted to work by bicycle.
it’s a 10 minute ride.
flash forward 25 minute ride…just commuting
flash forward 45 minute ride…still just commuting
ended up at 1hr 25 minutes, then alternated with running in the winter & swimming on my lunch break in the summer (I was at a small university).
Turns out my brain is super gullible and is easily fooled by…my brain.
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Well, I had uniforms to change into, plus locker room facilities.
The point, really, was that you can fool yourself into getting a routine/exercise.
Wow, you got slower and slower. Usually people get better the more they do something.
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As part of my fitness training earlier in my life, I got used to getting up early (somewhere between 5am and 6am). I’m nowhere near as fit as I used to be, but I still get up early.
Flossing. I’m too tired to do it at night.
