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Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by jjice »

joehx2 wrote: post #6

Wake up. Pee. If it's Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, weigh myself. Get breakfast ready for my kids. A banana, half a fiber bar, and a cup of milk. Start my coffee. Nothing special, just an old school coffee maker that uses a standard filter. Three cups of water and three spoonfuls of coffee grounds. Make my oatmeal. A quarter cup of oats and a half cup of water. Put it in the microwave for two minutes. Eat breakfast w…

Interested in weighing frequency. I was recently eating in a caloric surplus to aid in muscle gain and I didn't weigh myself super frequently, but as I'm coming up on a cut that'll be a bit harder for me, I'm interested in why you've personally chosen 3 days a week.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by paulcole »

1. Up at 4:30AM on 95%+ of days

2. Cold brew coffee and some kind of small breakfast, maybe a cookie or something

3. Do NYT + Apple News Crosswords and some other word games

4. Some combination of watch TikTok, read on my Kindle, 20 minute workout

5. Brush teeth and leave for work between 6:30 and 7:30. Either run or bike commute.

6. At work, do a 30-minute planning session to get ready for the day.

I find it works really well for me. It’s all stuff I like to do. Sometimes I end up doing my workout after work instead of before, but other than that I’m pretty consistent. Once in a while on a weekend or holiday, I’ll do no alarm and will sleep until sometime between 5:30 and 7:30AM.

My 30-minute planning session is based on the book Work Clean by Dan Charnas. Really great way for me to prioritize and have a clear plan for what I want to accomplish on a given day. The most interesting thing I’ve found with this is that there’s some days that just feel overwhelming before I plan. And then once my plan is written down nearly everytime it’s like, “Huh, that doesn’t seem too bad.”

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by jjice »

Wake up, start the coffee maker, brush my teeth, use the restroom, and then enjoy my coffee til 9 where I start my remote day. I wake up at 8 and start work at 9.

I used to have desires for an extensive, productive morning routine, but now I get everything out of this that I want and plenty of sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by TrueDuality »

Wake up. Feed the dog. Make coffee. Take the dog for a walk (~30 minutes), usually put on a podcast.

Check my calendar so I have an idea what my schedule looks like for the day, especially looking for start-of-day meetings. Start "spinning up" in my head. Shower & clean up, dress for the day.

If I have spare time before my workday starts I'll usually spend it catching up on personal email or checking the news. I very specifically avoid "fun traps" in the morning, no personal projects, books I may be hooked on, entertainment media, or engagement based platforms I might loose time to.

At the end of the day I cap it off with a proper workout and another walk with the pip. I find having a semi-enforced schedule to actually leave the house at the beginning and end of the day give me good mental touchstones to know when I should/shouldn't be working. I still find myself occasionally picking at something in the evening, but at least when I do I'm making an explicit choice to _go back to work_.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by hammeiam »

paulcole wrote: post #12

1. Up at 4:30AM on 95%+ of days 2. Cold brew coffee and some kind of small breakfast, maybe a cookie or something 3. Do NYT + Apple News Crosswords and some other word games 4. Some combination of watch TikTok, read on my Kindle, 20 minute workout 5. Brush teeth and leave for work between 6:30 and 7:30. Either run or bike commute. 6. At work, do a 30-minute planning session to get ready for the day. I find it works r…

Why wake up so early for tiktok time?

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by christkv »

Wake up, get kids up, get their breakfast going and any lunch they might need that day. Get them out of the house, catch up on any urgent email. Walk the 25 minutes to the co-working center in the city center, picking up a coffee and a pincho on the way.
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