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.
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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 read/heard somewhere that waking up at a consistent time was more important than going to bed at a certain time and decided not to investigate further and just implement it.
I’m a night owl so I need flexibility in the evening. 7:30 seemed a good compromise because bedtime can be as late as midnight and I’ll still get eight-ish hours of sleep. And I have time in the morning to slowly get moving and prepare for work.
The consistency seems to be paying off. I’m waking up naturally before my alarm and feel pretty alert most days. Also feels like I get a little more weekend.
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.
Dec 30, 2024
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is gig etiquette dead? Don’t go to a gig if you wanna just talk to your mates! go to a pub it’s what they’re for!
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