I’ve struggled with sleep maintenance my whole adult life and have been working PST jobs from the East Coast for years now, so both naturally hopeless and lacking your standard external motivators to be conscious in the “single digits.” I actively want to change this so that I have time to myself in the morning to read/exercise/just chill since I work later into the night, but has never been something I can consistently rewrite. In any case, I have the luxury to drink coffee and read for a bit in bed before starting my work day, but wow if I master mornings I’d have hours…
Feb 28, 2024
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I sleep way too late and spend so much of my time groggy and butthurt about missing the morning. I want this to finally be the year where I wake up at a reasonable time (read: not 10:30am) and have hours to myself to read, stretch, and just hang before I start my work day.
Because I work PST hours from New York (and live with a night owl grad student), I have no forcing function to give me any sense of discipline beyond meeting my lax work requirements. But most nights past 1am I’m many pages into Google reading the same tips to become a morning person and capitalize on the free mornings I could have with my shifted schedule.
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I wake up at 10am nearly everyday. I spent so long trying to fight it and go earlier, but it’s just not for me. I get the best, most uninterrupted sleep when I go to sleep between midnight and 2am. if I’m feeling extra snoozy I’ll allow myself an 11am start. I try to not have any plans before midday (this often doesn’t work when dealing with other peoples schedules), so I can write in bed for 30 mins to an hour before getting up. ive tried to have a “better” morning routine and it’s always made me feel worse. It should probably be said that I have M.E., and prior to starting ADHD meds last year I required a minimum of 10+ hours sleep a day, so this routine is a vast improvement for me. mornings and life in general have been much easier since I’ve listened to what my body does, rather than force it into what I think it should do.
Feb 28, 2024
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I am typically slow to rise and I don’t have a commute for my job, so I use two hrs of downtime on weekdays to have a slow breakfast, clean up, go outside and sip on coffee before work - I might do some duolingo or journal/make a checklist for the day
weekends I’m up by 9 and scrolling in bed for a bit before forcing myself up for a meal.
I’m overall very happy with it but I think coffee is forcing out some anxiety in me that doesn’t always feel great - I do not recommend that part
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