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.
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.
I have a set of stretches I’ve been doing every morning (or 95% of mornings) upon getting out of bed, for over 30 years. The only thing that’s different these days is that I have to go pee first.
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.”
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.
Wow, you got slower and slower. Usually people get better the more they do something.
/s
I’m glad it works for you, but I always hated getting to work very sweaty and then being smelly for the rest of the day when I biked.
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.
Real shower if you can, French shower if you can’t. Wet wipe the pits and butt, air dry, brush hair, deodorant, and some pleasant parfum. Bring a change of clothes.
Or you could just bike slowly and not get all nasty but who wants to do that.
I have my alarm clock require solving 5 arithmetic problems before it cancels (e.g (16*8 +10-6)/6) . It makes me alert way quicker and now I’m pretty quick at mental math.
that sounds insane hahah, probably mostly because im terrible at math…
Is that an android app? If so, could you name it?
I do the same thing, and one morning, I woke before my alarm and left my phone in the bedroom to take a shower. Learned that day that my wife doesn’t know PEMDAS.
I got a new phone sent to my work once, left my old one at work and didn’t turn the alarm off, my coworkers were more than a little annoyed!
Thank you
You need google play store to download it? There is no other way to? If I dont have google play store I just cant use it?
You appear to be able to download the apk from here: https://sleep.urbandroid.org/more/download/
Not sure it’ll run without play services though.
That’s cool! But I don’t like the o Privacy policy. It shares our data at least with google and facebook. https://sleep.urbandroid.org/privacy-policy/ And also, there’s no access to the code
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.urbandroid.sleep/latest/#trackers
ok
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)
I don’t know if it’s the best (what defines that?) but it’s what I do.
I wake up, my dog notices and jumps around in excitement. I greet him, pet him, then take my phone, do the daily NYT Mini Crossword and browse around for a few minutes while he lies down again, waiting patiently. I stand up, go pee, then I take my dog out for a walk. Afterwards I prepare my oatmeal, then prepare my dog’s food (it needs to soak a few minutes), go open all windows to get fresh air in, start the work computer and quickly check my mails, then we both eat our breakfast while I check my RSS feeds.
RSS <3
No one seems to have said it yet, but consistency. Waking up at the same time every day including weekends. Eventually, you just wake up early naturally. I get up at 5:30 am every day on the dot with zero alarm just because it’s when I wake up. And I’m never groggy, because I’ve adapted to it. It’s not early anymore it’s just when I wake up
I think the second half to this is that it can’t be a chore. You have to want to wake up. If you wake up and think about how much you hate being awake it will be all the harder
What time do you go to bed?
Between 9 and 10pm most nights
This is great, but wholly impractical for me sadly. I’ve tried to stagger my productive time accordingly.
what about winter
Winter is the same, although it can be noticeably more difficult to recover if your pattern gets disrupted for any reason. So for that I use a light that simulates sunrise
I think taking the time in the morning to enjoy myself. I WFH these days so it’s a easier (yet sometimes harder) to do that, but when I was commuting, I’d wake up early enough to get ready of course, but also take sometime to have a cup of coffee and read some news and such. Maybe even have a breakfast sandwich or something. Because for many years, I did the whole wake up the last minute, get ready, and get out the door ASAP thing. I always felt like I was in a panic.
I can’t say it led me to be more productive or whatever. But it just felt nicer. To not be so rushed. And that’s worth something.
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.
One cup of coffee on the balcony every morning. Just sitting there, enjoying the atmosphere, watching people walk by (I live near a park), maybe meditating a bit.
taking a shower first thing (well, second-- first is a cigarette) while listening to a general news podcast. not only does it wake me up, but it keeps me updated on the general goings-on in the world while getting my brain going. it also keeps me on time rather than dilly-dallying in the shower. 15 minutes in enough time to wash and do some minor stretching in the shower. then a second podcast (usually one on a specific story-of-the-day) while i shave and brush my teeth.
So, before #1?
no, the morning pee/poo happens while i wait for the shower to get hot. gives me a few minutes on lemmy before i dive into the podcast/ablutions/stretching time.
So, a third thing then. :)
i don’t really count that
You should - that’s the most pleasant part of the morning :)
No alarm. I go to bed on time and my body gets it somehow what a good wake up time is.
Also related is that when I wake up at night I take the time to think things through. Often a few hours, and then sleep again.
I wish I could do that. It sounds so risky, though lol. But all the power to you. That’s amazing.
You can still set it when needed. But you wake up before.
Waking up at the same time 7 days a week. I never feel overly tired and my body feels better.
Waking up at 4:30 to hit the gym before work. Took some getting used to, just commit to waking up when your alarm goes off and go through the motions, you will feel good once you start actually exercising. Then eating a nice breakfast after, the best.