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What is your morning routine?

leftyjace

leftyjace

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I get that we all (or most of us) will do the 3 S’s (sit, shower, and shave).
But what high-value activities do you do every morning that you feel motivates you and makes you get your day started off right?
What time do you get up in the morning?
What do you try to avoid doing in the morning so as to make sure you stay on track, etc.?
 
I get up at 6:30am and go for an hour walk each morning M-F. Keeps me active and I don’t have to force myself to work out later.

As a middle-aged man, I have to be careful with my joints. Can’t keep acting like I’m 20 when my body just won’t take the abuse of long runs, contact sports and trying to max weights.
 
Regardless of weather I have to work at 6am, 8am, 2pm or 6pm I like to wake up 2 hours before I have to leave for work.

I have a pretty rock solid internal clock and have probably been woken up by my alarm less than 100 times in my entire life. I always set one (it's looking a the time right before I go to bed that allows me to wake up naturally, or at least that's what I tell myself). I usually wake up about 5-10min before the time I set my alarm for.

I NEVER use the snooze button. NEVER.

That's how you train yourself to not wake up properly and/or not even respond to your alarm when it goes off.

First thing I do is make coffee. Then I take my coffee and sit at my computer and read the news, catch up on jazzfanz.com, etc. I really like to take my time waking all the way up like this.

After 30min or so the coffee is kicking in which means it's time to poop.

After that it's shower time.

Depending on how much time I have left I might read some more news or play a PC game for a few minutes. If not enough time I go right into preparing my lunch bag and hitting the road.

I don't like to get to work so early that I have to hang around before I start. I'm extremely consistent in when I leave and when I arrive. My current commute is very predictable so I usually get to work 5-10 min before I have to be there, clock right in and start working. When I've had a longer more unpredictable commute I generally arrive 15min before I have to be there, but same thing, get there and get to work. If that amount of buffer isn't enough to keep me from being late then I'm willing to risk it, but in my entire adult life I've probably been late for work less than 12 times.
 
Wake about 2 hours before I want to get to school.
Take a dump.
Do a short core routine.
Eat plain Quaker oats oatmeal with cherries and honey. Drink water.
Shower/Dress.
Drink more water.
Pack food/water for day.
Leave for work about an hour and 15 after I woke up.
Commute 35 and pick up a coffee on way.
 
I'm too old to whack every day.

Up at 6, bathroom, 2 eggs and a bowl of unfrosted shredded wheat (cooked and eaten to a TV show of my choice). In winter, I use Malt-O-Meal instead of the shredded wheat.
 
I sometimes jerkoff in the am. If I wake up before my alarm goes off. Have time. Usually it throws my schedule off and I don’t have time for oatmeal though.
 
Wake up at 5 usually. Eat small breakfast, make my bed, then straight to the gym for 2 hours. Usually warm up with 30 minutes of bball drills, then 45 minutes of lifting, then finish it off with stairmaster or swimming
 
On days I go to the office:

Wake up about 5am
Go to the gym - about 40 - 45 minutes of weights
Pick up an ice coffee on the way home for my wife
Come home and take a shower
Try to talk my wife into morning sex
Get rejected
Get dressed
Wake my son up with either a headlock or an armbar
Go to work - about a 25 minute drive
Morning bell/early meetings (work in Financial Svcs)
Get breakfast - usually a couple eggs and juice - once in a while chocolate milk
Sit in my office, read my twitter feed while trying to appear managerial.
 
Gameface said:
I NEVER use the snooze button. NEVER.

That's how you train yourself to not wake up properly and/or not even respond to your alarm when it goes off.
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This is me until the last few years where either lack of sleep or quality sleep, not sure which, or both. Been so hard to wake up and get out of bed. I hit snooze once last week. Was weird.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
This is me until the last few years where either lack of sleep or quality sleep, not sure which, or both. Been so hard to wake up and get out of bed. I hit snooze once last week. Was weird.
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My absolute hatred for the snooze button came from being in the Navy. There are 20 people sleeping within 6 feet of you and 10 of them think they're going to wake up early to go work out every morning. Every ****ing morning when all 10 of them have second thoughts on the whole getting up early thing they hit the snooze button for 90 minutes until they hear everyone else getting up and decide that they might as well get up too.

Nothing will give you more murder fantasies than sleeping in a Navy birthing. If it's not the snooze crew its the dude that doesn't know how to jerk off quietly and then it's the dude in the rack above you who snores all night every night. Then there are the POS assholes who slam their coffin rack closed by just straight dropping the ****ing thing.
 
Leesee, polish off a box of Twinkies before I set one foot on the floor. Debate getting out of bed at all. Finally decided I might as well. Lumber to the bathroom for dookie #1. Back to bed, I lost the fight. Fall briefly back to sleep. Wake up to slobber on my pillow and a Twinkie wrapper stuck to my head. Stumble into the kitchen. Bowl of frosted flakes or lucky charms with whatever liquid I can find in the fridge, usually milk. Sometimes oj. Occasionally NyQuil. On NyQuil days fall asleep in my cereal bowl. Wake up to lucky charms marshmallows stuck on my forehead. Roll into the floor and let the dogs lick me clean. Not there you pervs, unless they are really into it. Wander back into the bathroom for dookie #2. Occasionally dookie #2 comes in the shower, just waffle-stomp that ****er down the drain. Oh yeah, shower, most days. Otherwise debate changing underwear. Find a lost Twinkie, polish that off, depending on how chewy it is. Who am I kidding, polish it off anyway. Put mostly human-looking clothes on my body, hopefully after drying off from the shower. Oh yeah, after shower lay down on the floor in the middle of the bedroom to dry off. Then put on clothes. Stagger to the couch. Turn on Hulu or some ****. Dig a Twinkie out of the couch if I'm lucky.

And all that before 2 pm.
 
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