What's your morning routine?

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Being at home for 15 months forced me to figure out the morning routine that actually helped me, as I tried to enter a mental state where work felt easy.

I did everything from 'roll out of bed and immediately open my laptop' to 'two hours of self care before I even touch my phone' and have settled into something that works okay. For me the essentials are:

• shower
• light exercise
• make a cup of coffee (I froth the milk with a cheap device that, 9 months later, is my favorite pandemic purchase)
• drink coffee sitting in the back yard while the dogs run around
• space out looking at TikTok for half an hour
• sit down at my desk
• realize an hour later that I didn't eat anything

And that's how it goes! What's your morning routine?

Comments

[Motlib]

• Get up at 5:10am
• Prepare tea, eat a bit of bread with jam, honey or cheese (I guess typical German style breakfast)
• Start work at around 5:45am - time to concentrate on some difficult tasks, as colleagues will not interrupt me before 8am.
• get first coffee around 7am
• Second breakfast (bread, cereals,...) around 9am
• Perhaps another coffee if I feel sleepy
• Lunch break from 12am to 1pm, eat something small, relax a bit
• Definitely have a coffee after lunch break
• End work around 3:30pm or 4pm
• Run some errands, go out with my wife, play with the cats, cook dinner, whatever has to be done
• Get sleepy between 9 and 10pm, get into bed, read something, scroll through twitter, watch videos, fall asleep

Note: Coffee has to be on a fixed schedule for me, otherwise I drink way too much...

[Margo McCabe]

I feel this! I've definitely learned with working from home that it's helpful to still wake up early to have time before getting straight on the computer. I also try to do some combo of exercise / dog walk / breakfast / chill before logging on.

[Alex Lohr]

Get up at 6, shower, ride my bike to the bakery, brew some espresso (2-4 cups in the morning) and have a breakfast, take my kids to the kindergarten, sit down to work; I first check my messages, pull repos and install updates if necessary. Then I prepare for the daily standup.

On Saturday, I stand up at the same time, shower and ride my bike to the market 14km from and buy fresh food for the week. When I return between 8-9, we have breakfast.

I sleep in on Sundays until 8, if the kids don't wake me earlier.

Good espresso is important for me. I'm sort of an instant human - just add espresso.

[Mark Adel]

• Wake up
• Get out of bed
• Sit on my desk
• Work for 8 hours
• Get back to bed and play chess on phone
• Sleep

[Nočnica Mellifera]

realizing after writing this I should have gotten that sweet sweet Amazon affiliate money for linking to a milk frother... oh well, It's a good milk frother IDK