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

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post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am going on a year from watching. feels good.

Serious question: so to all posters above me in this thread, do you do HN regularly as a social but just avoid other sites?

Yeah, I don’t frequent many websites. I go on Facebook occasionally intermittently, but go through phases where I deactivate it. I also go on my university website for my online learning but I don’t go on many websites.

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

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Meta: looking at these schedules, it is very obvious who has and who doesn't have children. My schedule is trying to squeeze about 30 hrs of parenting, work and sleep requirements into a 24h day.

Yep, wake up 10am, work with maybe a gym or walk break, 8 hours of free time. Still get far less done than many parents posting here. There are upsides to a rigid routine and not being able to put stuff off as easily.

Haha true. In fairness, post kids, I had to become very selective about what I do (farewell Netflix and side projects) but the things I really care about, I do perhaps more than pre-kids.

I used to be very selective about going cycling, for example. Too early, too late, might rain, wind a bit gusty. But as a result I often didn't go. Now, if I have a window of opportunity, I just go, even if it's drizzly. And I go overall much more.

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

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post #119

Wake up whenever, wait until I hear the coffee machine or on a good day trigger it myself. Then I do whatever my phone has on open tasks, usually nothing or a random bill or a customer asking something. Second coffee, maybe a joint. Then actively just enjoying my coffee joint on repeat until I get the urge to do something. Which might not even happen that day. Sounds ineffective, but I tried a lot and productivity is…

Do you have a job?

Yes. I made one that fits my productivity

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

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org-mode helps:

  6:50......TODO wake up
  7:00......TODO brb
  7:02......TODO catfood
  7:04......TODO fasting glucose
  7:05......TODO ketones
  7:06......TODO weight
  7:07......TODO hydrate
  7:08......TODO am meds
  7:10......TODO shower
  7:20......TODO hair
  7:22......TODO shave
  7:25......TODO teeth
  7:27......TODO deo
  7:28......TODO morning netty
  7:28......TODO wash netty
  7:33......TODO chg jeans (+3d)
  7:33......TODO dress
  7:38......TODO pockets
  7:42......TODO litter
  7:45......TODO bkfst/coffee
  8:00......TODO journal
  NB: this is a good time to
  apply the quiet art of attn
  (see my other HN post) and do
  your best to like or dislike
  current thought patterns
  8:15......TODO email
  8:30......TODO chats
  8:40......TODO calendar
  8:45......TODO planning
  9:00......TODO login/execute
 12:00......TODO lunch/nap
 18:00......TODO logoff
 18:10......TODO text friends
it's not just morning that matters. and don't let the jerks and trolls get to you: it's your time and your life.

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

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post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am going on a year from watching. feels good.

Serious question: so to all posters above me in this thread, do you do HN regularly as a social but just avoid other sites?

Pretty much, yes. Reading WSJ/NYT is fun but not productive at all

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

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As a Person with ADHD: - first thing i do is drinking big glass of water - doing Sun Salutation yoga sequence, either 1 time or N times -as long as i am willing to do that day- - spend first 15 minutes of working hour with coffee and writing a short todo for that day into paper. I cannot emphasise enough how doing mindful exercises -even 1 minute!- regularly in the morning helps with my ADHD. But here is my ADHD trap…

Can you give some examples of mindful exercises that are short?
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